More on Goods loads

The original philosophy was to have 'shunting and delivery" options for actual operation.   Experience and (limited) size of garden are colouring this a bit, although the discovery of Hartland Locomotive Works' small wagons (to be covered in a later post) has again altered this, this time for a more positive experience.

Anyhow, I want to have loads that are 'delivered' and look the part.  I suppose this is my reaction to riding the Chemin der Fer in Provence when we saw milk and other produce being taken on board, and newspapers and a bicycle (wrapped) being delivered: this was a working railway dong useful stuff for people.

I had previously bought some Playmobil Milk churns, and the yellow fencing is also playmobil.  The fencing was to see "put down and take up use" on the original patio concept.  The sacks are a 1:32 item from Britains - ultimately to get the sticky label taken off, resprayed and weathered and replaced with a decal of something more appropriate, probably either fertilizer from Hydro or a building item (e.g. sand, cement).  The beer crates come from two sources- the red ones come from the back of a much smaller scale lorry, whilst the Zillertal ones are from an Austrian guy aimed at G scale modellers - presumably with the famous Zillertal Beer Keg wagon from LGB in mind (I didn't originally want Green Zillertal ones) - that a German chum got for me.  Personally I suspect that these would either be transported in a box car (to protect the bottles), or a smaller wagon as part of a mixed load for one small halt.

  

Taking Stock: Goods Vans and loads

As the saying goes "have been busy" and lots of it to do with railroads both miniature and real, so lots to appear on the blog now that I'm settled for a bit.  First up on the blog is a look at my current (plain) goods wagons.  There was an article in Model Rail International 2011 (which seems to be some sort of yearly special) about the logging industry both American and Continental (mostly Austrian/Swiss and Rhb/Zillertal) but it covered making model logging loads from real timber.   I was aware of this when I engaged on the great garden tidy up and kept back some of the wood, and have added to it more recently.  One of the important things was to use wood of roughly the same diameter within a load.

I've been bidding over time on Ebay to get a number of the stake wagons - which generally seem to be in demand - at a reasonable price.  Remains to be seen if I keep all of them as logging wagons and the logs themselves still need chains etc to secure them.  The other loads get more discussion in my next post.