Notes on Designing, Building, and Operating Model Railroads
A hobby adventure
As I prepped the layout for a recent operating session, I realized there were only a couple of loads on hand for the gondolas. I wanted more variety and remembered I had a neat kit in the stash. I checked a few boxes and found it.
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One of the Wheeling Freight Terminal crew members has a neat method of creating scrap steel loads for gondolas. Here’s Mike Weiss with some ideas you can use on your layout.
Articles in model railroad magazines about making scrap steel loads for gondolas have often not considered industry standards for scrap composition and size. Additionally they usually don’t provide an easy way to remove a load without a wire loop or hidden magnet. We will address both issues in this blog post.