w124bob Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Here are a trio of scrap service gondolas for my own scrap company. A pair of Atlas coalveyors and an old MDC highside gondola. Finally an experiment in baled scrap, squashed tinfoil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 If you can find a miniature pair of loose jointed (Slip-joint?) pliers, or a pair of parallel jaw pliers, you can squeeze the tinfoil "bales" into cubes which is more or less how they come out of scrap-yard baleing machines Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Lovely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I like the baled scrap and must/will do some in the future! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 great weathering job on those gondolas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I like the baled scrap and must/will do some in the future! Mark Saunders If you get fed up of making cubes, Mark, then there's an American manufacturer who does a nice cast (resin?) load - one gondola does just short of three sixteen-tonners' worth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted April 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2014 Hi all, Bailed scrap loads are available in the UK from Ten Commandments for HO scale http://www.cast-in-stone.co.uk/shop/index.htm No connection - just a satisfied customer Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotalLamer Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Those look perfect... exactly like the cars I see all the time. For another interesting load, I used to see regular gondolas in scrap service carrying nothing but old, broken-up engine blocks. We also serviced a place called Timken (yes, the company that makes roller bearings) that sent out gondolas of metal shavings. They were always nasty because of the lube oil they used in machining the bearings was still all over the shavings and would leak out of the cars. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVSNE Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Just saw a cut of Sullivan Scrap gons in a CSX train this morning on the way to work! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rslist.aspx?id=EAMX&cid=6Here is the link to the web page from railroad archive , some good overhead shots of various loads. It's worth noting that the 400>439 cars are ex Procor and are longer and with different end detail. Intermountain did a run of these in Procor, CP and another livery, I picked up a single Procor car from Walthers via Model Junction . It's sitting on the work bench having some minor damage repaired before weathering, mind you there's also an an WNYP Alco C430 waiting for weathering and decoder as well. Lets just say it's been an expensive month! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mabel Posted October 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2016 Have just seen these at Highball Graphics, whilst searching for summat for my own projects. Thought they may be of some use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 I got a sheet of these a few months ago, what I could really do with is the earlier DJJX logo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mabel Posted October 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2016 There is one set of the now defunct Oddballs decals on Ebay. Not sure if they are the early or late logo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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