Car load photos pt4

More car loads...

A Department of Defense heavy duty flatcar loaded with a M1 Abrams tank and what looks like a tank recovery vehicle. With a load like this, it's a good thing the flatcar has six-wheeled trucks!

Near the tail end of the same train, was this gondola with a steel coil load. If you look closely, you'll see that the car looks to have brackets mounted inside to keep the coils in place. Note also, that the coils are loaded over the trucks at the ends for weight distribution.

Here's what to do with all those "frets" left over from those etched metal kits; cut them up and load up a former coal gon from the seventies with them!

A (partial) shot of the other car. I wonder if someone would be interested in making junk loads for the taller coal gondolas?

Another scrap load I would like to see is shredded scrap, like these car loads. And behind these six cars, are three more loaded with old, broken ties.