Thus, while the woodchip loads were drying, I decided to make a crude load for fun. It's far to be great, but it will be enough to make us believe the cars are loaded.
I basically started with a piece of 2" x 3" lumber cut to size. Then, I drawn pencil line to represent lumber bundles. Finally, using a ruler and a hobby knife, I scribed horizontal lines to make individual plank.
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| The new team track really helps to frame the scene. |
It will probably never win a modeling contest award, but at least we can move on while I'm still pondering how I'll make realistic loads later. I still can recall seeing unwrapped lumber bundles with huge Donohue's "D" logo back in the late 80s but no picture to work from. So that's another project for the future. I'm in the mood thing should go forward, even if it means going back later. Mockup are great for that.
Hey there, Matthieu. Check out what I happened across while trolling through photos on the fallenflags site:
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Never underestimate the power of Internet! What a great find Chris and thanks for the link! This is exactly how I recalled them back in the 80s. Now, no more reason to postpone the project.
DeleteOh boy, I found another one! Wrapped this time.
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Thanks Chris! You are a big help. It will be easier to model wrapped loads. Can you send the link again, it doesn't work.
DeleteChris, the link is fine, the website is just down (temporarily I hope).
DeleteYeah, rrpicturearchives unfortunately seems to be having some issues in the last week - it seems to be back up for me now (at least as I write this).
DeleteI slapped together a PDF for the wrap graphic in my collection of lumber wraps:
http://vanderheide.ca/blog/lumber-loads/#quebec-east
Chris, thanks for your amazing work with these lumber wraps. I now have a good reason to update my cheap mockup load.
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