Gondola Loads.... any new ideas ?

[lock4244]

How would they get such slabs in the gondola, drop ends I guess would facilitate this but I'm not sure. Would these been thicker slabs, like in your picture or would sheet also be hauled in gondolas ?

Crane with a magnet.

[Wardie]

One of my Maine Central annual reports has a picture of a special train movement that is an entire train of gondolas(and maybe a few flats) with crated pieces of a paper machine going to a mill.

[asarge]

I've seen CSX put track maintenance vehicles in gons before.

 I also saw this gon loaded with buckets of railroad spikes.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2762396

[garethashenden]

A backhoe?

[mu26aeh]

CSX runs entire trains for slabs.  Look on YouTube, CSX slab train

[peteski]

How about scrap metal?

[Puddington]

Jason: That's a great list; lots of ideas; thanks again !. Thanks gang; keep the ideas coming; I doubt any of us couldn't use a new gon load now and then!

[jpwisc]

Spikes:


Tourists:


Uhhh...


Couplers:


Engine Bodies:

[Bob Bufkin]

I think one of my favorite loads is - nothing.  An old empty beat up, bruised, streaked and rusty gon which has been around and made money for the railroad.  That is a classy gon to me.

[BCR 570]

Railways often used gondolas in work service.  Some examples would be dropping new rail and/or ties along the right of way for MOW crews, rail, tie and tie plate reclaim after track renewal, and OCS scrap service.

Tim

[randgust]

Here's just the thing to do with that miserable, no-good, rotten turnout you finally tore out and replaced.....

http://lionelllc.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/switchpanelcars.jpg

[BobS]

When I was a kid I worked at Chicago Railway Equipment Company (CRECO) . We would ship brake beams bundled, boxcar doors standing upright and braced,
and bundles of DF bracing all in gons. The DF that came in to be refurbished was thrown into gons like a bunch of toothpicks.

[LV LOU]

Can't find a pic of one loaded,but Lehigh Valley ran a lot of guns with steel Ingot molds from Bethlehem Steel to upstate New York to be refurbished,you'd see one or two in most trains going both ways on the main...There were usually 2-3 ingots in the gon,laying down..They weren't tied down,just kinda laying there..Basically,same style as these Ken-Ray molds,just the molds,not the stools in the gon....

http://www.kenraymodels.com/steel-mill/n-scale/detail-parts.html

[sirenwerks]

Ship propellers.  Seen photos of they being carried in gons with wooden bracings.

Where can one find a good looking N scale propeller though?  Pete Nolan?

[LV LOU]

Where can one find a good looking N scale propeller though?  Pete Nolan?

Hobby shops carry brass props for RC boats..