Weekend Challenge #1 - Freight Loads!

[DKS]

...or look like Malcolm Furlow worked on it.

LOL!

[dougnelson]

From Trenton to Yosemite, CA.

[Chris333]

Ha that cable is for a logging railroad incline. The proto photo is taken at " Incline, CA " close to the entrance of Yosemite park.

[nkalanaga]

"If we subtract a quarter of the volume for voids (which I think is generous) we are still around 184,000 lbs."

It's even worse than that:  3/4 of 735,000 is 551,250, so that car is seriously overloaded!

[wm3798]

  it's supposed to be a load building challenge, not a challenge the load challenge.  How's about you experts build something we can all find jaw dropping for its creativity, execution and skill?  Yeesh!

[drgw12]

Hello, I've been lurking around here for years now (wow look at that post count......dismal!). Not really very good at participating in things, but hopefully I can turn that around. Thanks to you Mark W, I have also joined the Photon party, way back in November Anyway I'm a modern modeler, with a very large interest in the Montana Rail Link/BNSF. With my Photon I now have the ability to do some of the modern cars that just weren't very doable realistically until now! Well at least as time permits, I am no where near as fast as you Mark W. So here is my entrys:

Modern flood loaded coal loads, with depth and offset to one end. Not the "full to the brim" that usually is included.
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Concrete tie flats. Yeah I know that NSE did them but not in BNSF, and not with the variety that is prototypical. This is my work in progress.
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Railroad wheelset flatcars. Haven't started yet but is high on my to-do list.
http://www.gnair227.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1664193

And lastly, before MTL came out with their QUAX Red Streak hospital flatcars, I did mine!
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Thanks for your time
Steven

[mu26aeh]

Does this one count 



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[haasmarc]

I built this for my dad.

[central.vermont]

Does this one count 



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[altohorn25]

I posted this in the weekend update a couple of weeks ago, but here it is again.  One of the WOT Allis-Chalmers HD-21 crawlers on a MT flat (the flat has RS Laser Kit wood deck).

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[garethashenden]

Here are my Farmalls. I really need to chock these at some point... 

[Dave V]

My entry is trivial, but in the spirit of camaraderie I decided it was time to make some coal loads for my HOn3 gondolas.

I started with a pair of Blackstone high side gondolas and some 1/2" Styrofoam:



I wanted to make them easily removable so I put a high powered magnet inside the load, inserted from the bottom:



I made sure they both had the same polarity orientation.



Then I decided my drop-bottom gons also needed some coal:



Then paint, glue, and Arizona Rock & Mineral real coal.  FWIW, once the coal load is attached, the magnets are much less effective.  I think going forward I'll mount the magnets from the top and bury them in Gorilla glue.  They look OK enough:

[Kentuckian]

it's supposed to be a load building challenge, not a challenge the load challenge.  How's about you experts build something we can all find jaw dropping for its creativity, execution and skill?  Yeesh!

Because I'm not as creative or talented as you are! Also, I've been traveling with work for the last two weeks, and now this week too. The next time my part time work gets slow, I'm going to ask for a challenge!

[Mark W]

Ok, the first Weekend Challenge is now closed.  Feel free to keep the discussion going!

I'll create the poll this afternoon after work.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Does this one count 



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Hey wait, I thought that disappeared!!