No more car loads for a while. This was the last of the batch of videos uploaded at the beginning of August before my trip. Next month will be mostly about scenery - oh, and some bridges.
Nice video. I have enjoyed your skills for some time You have a talent for designing some amazing layouts and envisioning the end result long before in comes to be. Just a suggestion. Having worked in shipyards a portion of my working career(s), I have seen all sorts of steel shipments both by truck and rail. The cradle you made, I have seen many times come into the facility. The only comments that I would suggest to make the car look more realistic: I have seen similar cradles, however they were constructed from I-beam. The sheer weight of steel plates would warrant a more sustainable structure. Plastruct would suffice. Secondly, All steel plates shipped on the angle, as opposed to laying flat, were shipped in gondolas.. again with steel I-beam cradling. My suggestions are in no way meant to be disrespectful. I am a true fan of your work. Your level of detail is amazing. I just thought I would share my thoughts so the end result would appear more true to the prototype.
Very neat load (the plates still sudden be rusted) something I might try. Chain is always a pain to work with, but you made it look great. What you call out takes, I call the work bench, nothing ever goes as planned on my bench, ever! Thanks Mike.
really do enjoy your videos, I re watch some of them from time to time, such as this one. I want to ask if you would make part 3 of the "steel load series" …. ok, when they make fluid storage tanks, they use pre rolled sheets of steel. i'm sure you know what I mean. anyway, i'd like to see a video done to represent a load of that. the process of rolling the styrene, making the load cradle, have another go with the chains, etc. as I am replying to a post that is more than 2 years old I don't know if you'll even see this. however, if you do, I would ask that you consider the idea. by the way,,,, at 12:05 there is a flat car with a load of some type cylinders. what is that supposed to be? can't wait for the videos of the layout "build" at your new place. keep up the good work. thanks.
They can represent anything your imagination wants them to be. Canisters of something. They are actually made from insulin syringe covers (I have a diabetic in the family and I get a virtually unlimited supply of them).
More outtakes with cursing! Lol. To my understanding, that car is a depressed flat? To me a well car is what you haul containers or trailers in. But I could be wrong too? Looks realistic! I like it! Looks good with the rest of your heavy loads! Now you need to make a load that takes 3 flat cars, well 1 flat in the center hauling the load and 2 flats on either end as idler cars, because the load hangs over the center flat. Like a big long smoke stack or pressure container? Thanks for sharing, Roy
You're right about the car name. See the reply to "Ron's Trains N Things". About that long load ... I've thought of doing something like that but it's very low on my list of priorities.
It's entirely my own design, although I'd like to think that a prototype railroad might come up with something very similar if presented with a few 15-foot-wide steel plates to transport. Of course in the modern era, the load would just go by road and the taxpayer would foot the bill for the police escort.
The outtakes would have been very funny.... but we've ALL been there. 😬😬😬 So, how many times were the words bollocks, FFS, and other non primetime superlatives used getting those chains on?? Totally feel your pain. I was recently trying to attach a 17mm length of micro chain from the brake lever on the chassis to the front truck on a Locomotive I'm heavily kitbashing... My wife thought I was having a stroke!!! 😱😵 Outstanding finished product! I concur with the other poster here. I'd love to see, in near real time, how you make that plastic look so good as Rusty metal. Cheers, Carmine 🚂
I'm not one to nit-pick but--at least in American terms--that is not a well car. It is a depressed-center flat car. A well car is used for carrying double-stack intermodal containers. Good looking load, though. 👍
Yes you are absolutely correct. On US railroads, this is normally called a "depressed-center flat car". On British railWAYS, it is called a well wagon (cars are what you drive on the roads). I sometimes go back to my old terminology, either without thinking, or because I prefer the other terms. For example, I don't think I will ever get used to calling a "driver", an "engineer". To me, an engineer is the guy who designs and builds the locomotive, not the one who drives it. Of course, in the period I am modelling, no-one would have even thought of double-stacking intermodal containers (inter-what containers? they say, scratching their heads), so they wouldn't have had to come up with a name for the car yet. There are numerous examples of different railroads using different names for the same thing, so it's probably not too far fetched to claim that the car-builders in my freelanced railroad's shops could have started calling it a well car as it's pretty descriptive for a car that isn't really flat and much less of a mouth-full.
mpeterll I wondered if there was a Brittish background to that name. That is interesting. You learn something every day. Otherwise I wasn't concerned about confusion on the part of your era people but for those contemporaries watching. Lol. Thanks for the response.
Another exceptional build...and great idea...keep them coming!!!!
No more car loads for a while. This was the last of the batch of videos uploaded at the beginning of August before my trip. Next month will be mostly about scenery - oh, and some bridges.
Another great load build sir ,very well done and informative.I am slowly catching up on your videos since first discovering them and glad I did.
I'm wondering if that steel plate load would fit through any tunnels? Not really sure if real railroads would pull such a load.
The whole point of loading it on the diagonal is so that it does fit within the loading gauge. Totally prototypical.
Looks real. Nice layout also.
Nice video. I have enjoyed your skills for some time You have a talent for designing some amazing layouts and envisioning the end result long before in comes to be. Just a suggestion. Having worked in shipyards a portion of my working career(s), I have seen all sorts of steel shipments both by truck and rail. The cradle you made, I have seen many times come into the facility. The only comments that I would suggest to make the car look more realistic: I have seen similar cradles, however they were constructed from I-beam. The sheer weight of steel plates would warrant a more sustainable structure. Plastruct would suffice. Secondly, All steel plates shipped on the angle, as opposed to laying flat, were shipped in gondolas.. again with steel I-beam cradling. My suggestions are in no way meant to be disrespectful. I am a true fan of your work. Your level of detail is amazing. I just thought I would share my thoughts so the end result would appear more true to the prototype.
I think the the last to videos have been. Excellent work
Super glue can be a super pain in the a****
Job well done sir!
Very nice.
Very neat load (the plates still sudden be rusted) something I might try. Chain is always a pain to work with, but you made it look great. What you call out takes, I call the work bench, nothing ever goes as planned on my bench, ever! Thanks Mike.
When you dropped the glue tube, and it stuck to the sellotape.....now THAT was good for a laugh! :)
I'm so glad i'm subscribed for this stuff! hahaha
really do enjoy your videos, I re watch some of them from time to time, such as this one.
I want to ask if you would make part 3 of the "steel load series" ….
ok, when they make fluid storage tanks, they use pre rolled sheets of steel.
i'm sure you know what I mean. anyway, i'd like to see a video done to represent a load of that. the process of rolling the styrene, making the load cradle, have another go with the chains, etc.
as I am replying to a post that is more than 2 years old I don't know if you'll even see this. however, if you do, I would ask that you consider the idea.
by the way,,,, at 12:05 there is a flat car with a load of some type cylinders. what is that supposed to be?
can't wait for the videos of the layout "build" at your new place.
keep up the good work.
thanks.
They can represent anything your imagination wants them to be. Canisters of something. They are actually made from insulin syringe covers (I have a diabetic in the family and I get a virtually unlimited supply of them).
Another fine project! The car looks well to me!! Thanks for the outtakes-like you said-we've all been there, and its probably not the last time!
Good job on that load you made
More outtakes with cursing! Lol. To my understanding, that car is a depressed flat? To me a well car is what you haul containers or trailers in. But I could be wrong too? Looks realistic! I like it! Looks good with the rest of your heavy loads! Now you need to make a load that takes 3 flat cars, well 1 flat in the center hauling the load and 2 flats on either end as idler cars, because the load hangs over the center flat. Like a big long smoke stack or pressure container? Thanks for sharing, Roy
You're right about the car name. See the reply to "Ron's Trains N Things".
About that long load ... I've thought of doing something like that but it's very low on my list of priorities.
mpeterll Okay.
Very well done. Would you consider doing a video on how you paint your styrene to look like realistic rusted steel?
An excellent idea for a video. Thanks for the suggestion.
Gorgeous load is this prototypical or freelanced.....Cheers-Rich.....
It's entirely my own design, although I'd like to think that a prototype railroad might come up with something very similar if presented with a few 15-foot-wide steel plates to transport. Of course in the modern era, the load would just go by road and the taxpayer would foot the bill for the police escort.
The outtakes would have been very funny.... but we've ALL been there. 😬😬😬 So, how many times were the words bollocks, FFS, and other non primetime superlatives used getting those chains on??
Totally feel your pain. I was recently trying to attach a 17mm length of micro chain from the brake lever on the chassis to the front truck on a Locomotive I'm heavily kitbashing...
My wife thought I was having a stroke!!! 😱😵
Outstanding finished product! I concur with the other poster here. I'd love to see, in near real time, how you make that plastic look so good as Rusty metal.
Cheers, Carmine 🚂
I'm not one to nit-pick but--at least in American terms--that is not a well car. It is a depressed-center flat car. A well car is used for carrying double-stack intermodal containers. Good looking load, though. 👍
Yes you are absolutely correct. On US railroads, this is normally called a "depressed-center flat car". On British railWAYS, it is called a well wagon (cars are what you drive on the roads). I sometimes go back to my old terminology, either without thinking, or because I prefer the other terms. For example, I don't think I will ever get used to calling a "driver", an "engineer". To me, an engineer is the guy who designs and builds the locomotive, not the one who drives it.
Of course, in the period I am modelling, no-one would have even thought of double-stacking intermodal containers (inter-what containers? they say, scratching their heads), so they wouldn't have had to come up with a name for the car yet. There are numerous examples of different railroads using different names for the same thing, so it's probably not too far fetched to claim that the car-builders in my freelanced railroad's shops could have started calling it a well car as it's pretty descriptive for a car that isn't really flat and much less of a mouth-full.
mpeterll I wondered if there was a Brittish background to that name. That is interesting. You learn something every day. Otherwise I wasn't concerned about confusion on the part of your era people but for those contemporaries watching. Lol. Thanks for the response.
very well done Mike.
Who's Mike?
sorry i thought your mike was mike
no..... his peter was peter