open top loads

[gbwdude]

This post has inspired me to build some of my own. One of the goals on the Whiskey River Railway is to make every visible load removable. Using what I had available, which was 1/8" aluminum sheet, I cut it to the size of the inside of my MDC 40' gondola. I decided to make two different loads, one being scrap metals and one being old railroad wheels. I Gorilla Glued everything in place and then hit it with both a coat of rusty dirty brown and a coat of the Japenese equivalent of Dullcote. And here's how they came out.