Dunnage, that was the word I was looking for, thanks 3rdRail.
My gripe is that since they had to make a master to mold, why not model the dunnage right on the thing? Its not like anyone is going to go out and purchase the load separately as a stand alone item, although someone might buy the load to put on other cars. So at least model the dunnage as part on the engine load.
The blocking and bracing would most likely need to be done by hand, I do agree with that.
But I think things would look much better with just the dunnage around the engine. Just my $.05 (adjusted for inflation) :
Anything would look better than nekkid loads...
I just noticed that the huge bucket that was the load on a depressed center flat they did a few months ago (SCL perhaps?) is available as a separate load now, as is the case with all the MT loads, they seem to show up later as purchaseble (is that a word?) items. That huge bucket wouldn't just have gotten plunked down onto the middle of the flat and sent on its merry way. It'd have been bracked and blocked and there most likely would have been plenty of dunnage at least under the bucket.
If anything that load looks even sillier just balanced there on the middle of the flat car than the ship engine load.
