The Glen Dale Coal Company’s Vulcan switcher is ready to move a load of scrap metal collected from the Coalbrook No.2 breaker site. MODEL PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR


Modeling a removeable scrap load for a gondola


A simple project that yields good-looking results/Wayne Sittner


empty. Closed cars look the same com- ing and going, so they are not a model- ing problem. Open cars, however, offer a challenge. The empty part is easy be- cause that’s the way they come from the manufacturer. Doing loads may be a bit more involved, especially if you want the car to have a removable load so it can run both loaded and empty. Over the years some great commer- cial offerings in a variety of materials have become available, but there is a sameness to them because they are, af- ter all, coming from a mold. To get something different a little ingenuity


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The weight of the steel scrap load dictates that the car should not be loaded too high. The author kept it about two feet below the top chord. Chalk dust was used to add some variation to the shades of rust.


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s in the real world, our model- world freight cars run both ways, that being loaded and


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