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Wanted: Pictures of lumber loads and logos

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Wanted: Pictures of lumber loads and logos
Posted by n2mopac on Monday, April 20, 2009 4:36 PM

I am trying to make my own lumber loads for N scale centerbeam flatcars. Can anyone give me links or post here any pictures you have access to of lumber loads or logos for lumber companys that I can use on shrouds. Thanks for any help you can extend.

Ron

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Posted by chutton01 on Monday, April 20, 2009 8:54 PM

Look at this model company's (Day for Night) page for Walthers (there is also one for Athearn) - perhaps you can get some ideas from there - maybe even find something you can order, I dunno (they seem to be HO scale only).  At least you'll  know what lumber companies are out there using lumber wrappers.

I do want to state that the model Canfor "It's True" lumber wrappers do match the CanFor prototype so that bodes well for the company's products...

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Posted by n2mopac on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:46 AM

Thanks, guys. These are helpful, but I could still use more. Any other that anyone can supply would be greatly appreciated.

Ron

Owner and superintendant of the N scale Texas Colorado & Western Railway, a protolanced representaion of the BNSF from Fort Worth, TX through Wichita Falls TX and into Colorado. 

Check out the TC&WRy on at https://www.facebook.com/TCWRy

Check out my MRR How-To YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/RonsTrainsNThings

 

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Posted by AlreadyInUse on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:40 AM

Have you considered Google images? "lumber company logo" might prove fruitful.

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Posted by chutton01 on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:51 AM

AlreadyInUse
Have you considered Google images? "lumber company logo" might prove fruitful.

Careful here, not all companies w/ a logo original or tranship lumber (meaning they would use their own branded lumber wrappers) - lots of local lumber yards logo show up on Google when you try, but their logos will never grace a lumber wrapper.  I figured the OP could use the list of names provided by that model company, and THEN look up each one to (hopefully) get a nice, clear image of the wrapper (CanFor, for example, comes close, although the prototype lumber images I found were skewed and would need to be straightened via 'shop).  I didn't investigate much further since I'm not generating any lumber load wrappers right now, but left the rest of the project as an exercise for the OP.

Actually lots of images of unwrapped lumber piles being handles, more than I expected - stored under shed roofs on concrete floors and/or racks, I guess they hold out fine.

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Posted by alanprocter on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:02 PM

Here are some pictures that I took at a local rail yard.  I have resized and trimmed them using PowerPoint and used them to wrap a wood block for bulkhead flat cars.  They are HO but you can resize appropriately for your N scale.  Just assume lumber sizes [e.g. 8ft, 12ft, 16ft etc] for the packages in the image.  I have some others if you find these useful.

Alan

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