Gondola Loads.... any new ideas ?

[fredmoehrle]

A few things I've done.
I took the five sided adapters for the Blueford hi-cubes, painted them either navy grey or primer oxide red, and braced them into the end of a pair of MEC  gon's and called them ships knee's for the Bath Iron works.
Think there's pictures on the old Atlas forum.

Just finished scrapping out a bunch of old back up tapes for the company's computer system, took the little spindle wheels that have a cool geared O.D. and splined I.D., painted them with old Polly S metal primer, built some cribbing around them.  Could be geared pump's impellers (for quarry or nautical applications.)
No pictures yet, have to get some black thread to do tie downs.  (then got to figure out how to post them.)

The final was a odd ball repair tool for an old Xerox 1012 photo copier that the repair woman gave me.
Cribbed that up, put it in a gondola.
When people ask what it is, I tell them it's the magnetic spindle for a experimental flux capacitor for a great lakes ore boat!

[up1950s]

Well it could be a shipment , or would that be a boatment of 2 Venice Gondolas .

Then to keep the same theme , one or more ski lift gondolas . ( could be modified from Japanese dummy light rail cars or something like that to not have a common North American feel and identification to it or them . )

[nuno81291]

Well it could be a shipment , or would that be a boatment of 2 Venice Gondolas .

Then to keep the same theme , one or more ski lift gondolas . ( could be modified from Japanese dummy light rail cars or something like that to not have a common North American feel and identification to it or them . )

And while we are talking about alternative Gondola loads...why not some scrap gondola shelving  https://www.google.com/search?q=gondola+shelf&rlz=2C1CHFX_enUS0536US0536&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=JpP_U8WvMta7ggTO_oLgCQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=667#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=HILCsqkQOKtOiM%253A%3BA5PufWen2l9RFM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stampsstorefixtures.com%252Fmedia%252Fcatalog%252Fcategory%252F%252Fcategories%252FAISLE%252520GONDOLA%252520ROWS.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stampsstorefixtures.com%252Fgondola-shelving%252Fused-gondola-shelving%3B600%3B450 

[jimmo]

A backhoe?

This backhoe isn't a gondola load, it's a gondola unloader. I'm not sure if they are ever transported this way, most of the unloaders I have seen are trucked to the location where the unloading is required.

Here's how they get it down off of the gon:

[loyalton]

Large cable spools -- fiberoptic cable, for example.

Wire coil loads. Pre-made loads exist in HO; AFAIK it's still DIY for N scale.

[sirenwerks]

Hobby shops carry brass props for RC boats..

I live so close to Annapolis, but I'm not a boat person.  Exactly what size prop would make a realistic N scale load?

[jimmo]

I live so close to Annapolis, but I'm not a boat person.  Exactly what size prop would make a realistic N scale load?

One that fits into a gondola.

Here's one that is mounted on a heavy-duty drop-center flat:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2805/8864541859_5e388bf959_z.jpg

[peteski]

One that fits into a gondola.

Here's one that is mounted on a heavy-duty drop-center flat:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2805/8864541859_5e388bf959_z.jpg

...and on the other end of the spectrum, the smallest one for a 1:1 watercraft (outboard motor) will probably be around 6" diameter.  So, you have a wide range of propellers to choose from. 

[jpwisc]

In keeping with a nautical theme, you could also model an anchor...

[JMaurer1]

Got to love the scenery growing on the deck of that flat...

[up1950s]

I think I've seen a gondola with darn near a lawn in it .

[jimmo]

I think I've seen a gondola with darn near a lawn in it .

Maybe it was carrying sod.

[Philip H]

@sirenwerks  ,
The props on most  pleasure craft around Annapolis are 3 feet or less in diameter (the really big ones have 2). So if they go by rail it will be on a palette in a boxcar. Gondola or flat size props are gonna be larger then 6 feet dia, and probably for ocean going ships - cargo vessels, Coast Guard cutters and Navy war ships.

[sirenwerks]

@sirenwerks  ,
The props on most  pleasure craft around Annapolis are 3 feet or less in diameter (the really big ones have 2). So if they go by rail it will be on a palette in a boxcar. Gondola or flat size props are gonna be larger then 6 feet dia, and probably for ocean going ships - cargo vessels, Coast Guard cutters and Navy war ships.

OK, you're makin' me look dumb.  I knew that.  On that note, I always wanted to model a flat with Chris Craft boats on it like those being shipped off of the Eastern Shore in the 60s (ala Lionel).  But I was thinking more along the lines of battleship-scale props, like those shipped out of Maine and in the model in Jimmo's pic, because when those low side MEC gons Bryan is working on hit the street, propellers were exactly what I had in mind to be in them.

[up1950s]

PRR had a gon with holes cut in the floor so the prop blades could stick through . I made a half assed model of it .