I've been wanting to post a Gallery page of OwlMtModels projects and the beautiful craftsmanship of our customers too!
Lumber Loads
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OMM 3001 on Red Caboose/Espee Models F-70-6/7/10, SP 80505
Our original 3001 Lumber Loads were designed to fit wide-decked flatcars, such as the Red Caboose/Espee Models F-70-6/7/10 series models, which includes most other HO scale flatcars as well. The load however's just long enough to prevent putting 3-stacks on the length of the deck. However the load stacks can be shifted to be over the trucks or centered towards the middle of the car.
OMM 3003 on P2K NKP 53ft Flatcar
The 3003 kits are designed to fill out 53ft flatcars. This one has all-wooden dunnage bracing. Loads can be built in multiple configurations. The new 3003 kits are replacing our worn out tooling for the 3001 Loads when they sell out.
OMM 3004 on OMM 2002 F-50-8, PE 3669
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| F-50-8, PE 3669 with basic 48" units of our Narrow Lumber Loads. |
The PE 3669 was kitbashed to replicate the Pacific Electric's out-side hung brake rigging for the tight 45ft radii curves around Los Angeles.
Back in 2018, OwlMtModels teamed up with John from TSG Multimedia to do a 'How to' Video on building the new OMM 3004 lumber loads, then getting into painting and weathering techniques. This load was the result! Have fun mixing up the kits, in this case only 5/6s of the kit was used. Over the course of building multiple loads which don't use all the panels, you can end up with nearly a 'free load' of extra parts, with maybe only the purchase of an extra 3011 "Sticker" sprue from OwlMt.
During the non-sugarbeet rush season, extra composite or steel GS gondolas could be used to ship lumber. In this case, a set of 3004s are riding in a G-50-23 class gondola, probably on a fast trip down to LA or even to some local company destination, which will return the car quickly to its regular assignments around California.
OMM 3004 on Walthers USRA 46ft Gondola, PRR 317083
I've always enjoyed heavier weathering on cars, with patched reporting marks and data. This Walthers PRR G25 46ft USRA gondola has been reloaded with lumber to send back towards home.
OMM 3002 in Bowser F30A, PRR 475237
The 3002 lumber loads with only 2-stacks can be positioned in different positions around the decks as long as the cars have consistently spaced stake pockets, which most flatcar's do between the bolsters.
OMM 3002 on Athearn 40ft Flatcar, SP 140195
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| Shifting Loads are easily modeled with the modular lumber loads. |
Don't forget to increase your variations in appearance of the OwlMtModels loads by creating shifted loads, such as this one.
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| 3002 Lumber Load riding Athearn 40ft flatcar. |
The removable lumber loads can be swapped around and repositioned to change the look of the load. I often like to do this when the cars go into staging yards. That way the same cars and loads never come back looking exactly the same as the last operating session.
Blackburn Sugar Beet Racks
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| PE 3669 with B-1135 Blackburn Beet Rack |
As the PE car has no fixed load, it is possible to swap around loads, in this case, to an OwlMtModels 3022 Blackburn Beet Rack.
Ted Waterhouse's Modeling
Ted built our 2002 F-50-5/8/9 class flatcar with a 3022 Blackburn Sugarbeet Rack to go with his scratch-built sugarbeet loader on the Coast Route.
Paul Deis's Modeling
Vic Yoder's Modeling with OwlMtModels Lumber Loads
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Here's a classic 'max-cubic' load for a 50-ton 40ft flatcar.
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Notice that Vic here put the various split units of lumber to over-hang and show off the features of this kit's 'split' planels, which allow you to combine the various lengths in unique ways. Notice that this is a 50-ton car, and so the load isn't fully 'max-cubic' to the Plate-C limits in physical size, but the load has probably been weight-limited by the density of the wood in the load.
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This is the full 3003 kit, stacked to full height and showing off the 'max-cubic' nature of this kit. This is ideal to show off the difference in weight capacity of 70-ton cars, like the SP's F-70-series cars compared to AAR 50-ton cars, such as offered by Walthers/Proto2000's model.
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A shorter stack of lumber on F-70-series car. There's no rule preventing you from mixing and matching panels from 3003 and 3002 kits or 3004 and 3005 kits.
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Another F-70-series with 1/9th of the kit removed, or one unit of lumber, resulting in this 2-3-3 stack arrangement of the units. This allows the extra unit of lumber to be moved to another car. Aka, make one load smaller, move parts over to another car to enlarge that one, etc.
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Here's where the extra units went to, a 3002 kit has been expanded to create a 2-2-3 arrangement on this 50-ton car.
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| 3004 Lumber Load in SP post-war Auto-Boxcar. |
Vic decided to put some lumber inside an SP double-door boxcar. Very nicely done.
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Oh dear... that doesn't look good! The upper units of lumber on this load have shifted. Better pull this car out of the train and send it to the RIP track and 'load shifter' for 're-shifting'. Sometimes shifting loads will also break or damage the stakes and supporting dunnage boards too, requiring their replacement by the carmen at intermediate yards.
One AAR/ARA report showed that just one car needed to be re-shifted or worked on 14 times between Washington and Chicago area... or nearly at every division point! So this problem wasn't unique to single cars, but represents a regular issue that should be addressed on operational layouts running large blocks of our loads!
One AAR/ARA report showed that just one car needed to be re-shifted or worked on 14 times between Washington and Chicago area... or nearly at every division point! So this problem wasn't unique to single cars, but represents a regular issue that should be addressed on operational layouts running large blocks of our loads!
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| 3002 (two-stack kit) on RC/EspeeModels SP F-70-6/7 flatcar. |
The 'classic' two stacks of lumber, representing 40-50-tons in weight. Some mills shipped 'wetter' lumber or wood that was denser than others. Other times the customers only ordered a certain amount of board-feet, which doesn't fill up the car all the way, and the railroad just supplied the mill with standard 70-ton cars, which they normally order.
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Another example of a 50-ton car maxed out. Hopefully the mill is just shipping lighter density woods or the mill (and NP) are hoping not to get caught over-loading the car. Yikes!
Sometimes the railroads would accept over-loaded cars if they were not going to be interchanged to another railroad, as the receiving road could refuse the interchange of over-loaded cars, due to increased risks of the car failing or causing damage to the track. Also too many over-loaded cars in a train would throw off the tonnage and braking calculations of the railroad moving over mountain territory, risking stalling trains or runaways!
Sometimes the railroads would accept over-loaded cars if they were not going to be interchanged to another railroad, as the receiving road could refuse the interchange of over-loaded cars, due to increased risks of the car failing or causing damage to the track. Also too many over-loaded cars in a train would throw off the tonnage and braking calculations of the railroad moving over mountain territory, risking stalling trains or runaways!
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