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Guess The Load
Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:36 PM

Grabbed some stuff out of the junk box and thought I would try and be creative and make a flatcar load. 

Does anyone want to guess what these were before I got my hands on them?

I have not tied them down yet as I think I may add more to them.

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Posted by saronaterry on Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:42 PM

Battery terminal cover caps off new battery?

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:45 PM

GRRRRR!!!!! I guess I was not creative enough!Laugh

Anyone else care to stump the guessers with a scratch built load?

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Posted by tstage on Sunday, January 29, 2023 7:34 PM

And I was going to guess 500A...Sigh

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Posted by Flagman515 on Sunday, January 29, 2023 7:47 PM

It appears to be conning towers on the new Green December nuclear class subs to me.

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, January 30, 2023 1:47 AM

They look good Brent.

Cheers!!

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Posted by PC101 on Monday, January 30, 2023 8:19 PM

BATMAN

 

 

Anyone else care to stump the guessers with a scratch built load?

 

Maybe this load does not count as ''Scratch built" but I had an itch to build it.

I do need to add NBW details on the lumber bracing and fix the tie down loops going through the stake pockets. 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 8:13 AM

PC101
Maybe this load does not count as ''Scratch built" but I had an itch to build it.

That looks great, especially the tensioners on the tie-downs.

Bow

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 1:53 PM

PC101
Maybe this load does not count as ''Scratch built" but I had an itch to build it.

Well, it sure looks to me like it's one-a-them GERN Industries "Truncators"  made to shorten purty-well anything that needs to go in a package of sum sort, irregardless of it's size.

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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 4:06 PM

Here is another "cast iron" load being shipped out.

These items are not scratch built but more like scratch un-built to get to the finished product.

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Posted by PC101 on Monday, February 6, 2023 3:55 PM

Well I guess I stumped you all with my loads.

The two pieces are the halfs of two different faucet cartridges. The second picture is one half of a Delta Series 17 faucet part #RP32104.

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Posted by jcopilot on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 9:46 AM

My friend, PC101, is a master scavenger, always finding parts and pieces that can be used on his layout, very creative.  I've benefitted from his salvage efforts.  Nice loads, PC101.

 

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Posted by BigDaddy on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 11:51 AM

Found this on Virtual Railfan.  No clue what it might be.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 1:19 PM

BigDaddy
No clue what it might be.

Looks to be a coil of specialty metal shrink-wrapped in that heavy poly stuff you see some boats and such wrapped in. The bulkheads on that intermodal containerized flatbed can be laid flat for return shipping.

A giant pinwheel?

 ERIE_special-flat by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by mvlandsw on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 3:19 PM
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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 6:48 PM

gmpullman
 
BigDaddy
No clue what it might be.

 

Looks to be a coil of specialty metal shrink-wrapped in that heavy poly stuff you see some boats and such wrapped in. The bulkheads on that intermodal containerized flatbed can be laid flat for return shipping.

A giant pinwheel?

 ERIE_special-flat by Edmund, on Flickr

Regards, Ed

 

I have something like that.

I need to work on the tie downs and blocking.

The cast metal shorty depressed flat car is scheduled for a rebuild/upgrade. It was found in a free junk box at a train show. Just a metal body saying ''take me home, take me home".

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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 6:53 PM

jcopilot

My friend, PC101, is a master scavenger, always finding parts and pieces that can be used on his layout, very creative.  I've benefitted from his salvage efforts.  Nice loads, PC101.

 

 

Thanks for the kind words.

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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 7:02 PM

More loads from an old faucet part made to look like a casting.

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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 8:08 PM

More guess 'the loads'.

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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 8:20 PM

BigDaddy

Found this on Virtual Railfan.  No clue what it might be.

 

I'd also say a coil of metal that needs to be protected from the elements. Could be a coil of sheet gold wrapped to keep from prying eyes and being shipped right past eyes wide open.Whistling 

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Posted by PC101 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 8:23 PM

SeeYou190
 
PC101
Maybe this load does not count as ''Scratch built" but I had an itch to build it.

 

That looks great, especially the tensioners on the tie-downs.

Bow

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Thanks Kevin.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 10:25 PM

This is one of my favorites:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

That load is made up of scraps and gubbins from my wargaming scrap box. There are Dwarf Glyphs, Tiger Tank Fenders, Space Marine Icons, Panther Tank Wheels, Soviet Tank Hatches, an M2 .50cal HMG, Eldar Weaponry, Ork Shoota Parts, and Chaos Spikey Bits.

I think it all came together is a pretty good load of scrap.

-Kevin

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