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I had six pulpwood bulkhead cars with nothing to put on them.  Rather than do nothing, I thought I would adapt them to packaged lumber.  I had one Walthers Weyerhauser plastic model load for 70 foot cars so I scanned it at high resolution and then printed sheets on inkjet paper and mounted them on the heaviest weight poster board with 3M spray glue.. The main problem was the thickness of the board, which cause rounded edges when bent.  I couldn't score on the correct side for bending as it had the glued picture on it, so I scored the underside and "routered" out a little channel with an exacto.  It didn't come out too badly, althought for purists, the load is cut a little short and is perhaps on the wrong type of car, but I think it will do for a while and I spent only $4 for the posterboard.  I think a set of six Walthers loads would set me back at least $40.  I'll get them later. The paper was too bright, so I rubbed them with Bragdon ash-coloured powder. <IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/d.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/d.jpg">  <IMG style="WIDTH: 1024px; HEIGHT: 768px" src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/b.jpg" width=1024 height=768 mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/b.jpg">   <IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/c.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/c.jpg"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/a.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/a.jpg">
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