07-12-2010, 04:52 PM
looks like you have a nice plan going for you!!
Along with skelton cars have you considered converted flat cars??? Maybe the PRR or NYC was having a fire sale and your road picked some up cheap and added log bunks??
As a note I do not think centerbeams were built until the early 70's but you can always have your road be the inventor of them
I have seen some operations that will put rough cut lumber on bulkhead flats and take them down the hill unsorted, sized or planned. At the bottom they will have a finish mill/plant that will sort, plann, grade, stack and wrap them there. Generally speaking centerbeams are a pain to load and a company would probably prefer to only have to load them once. On the other hand a bulkhead flat with rough stack lumber with some straps holding it down can be more easily unloaded and the risk of damaging one of those expensive new centerbeams would be reduced.
When you get a track plan together be sure to post it !!!
Along with skelton cars have you considered converted flat cars??? Maybe the PRR or NYC was having a fire sale and your road picked some up cheap and added log bunks??
As a note I do not think centerbeams were built until the early 70's but you can always have your road be the inventor of them
I have seen some operations that will put rough cut lumber on bulkhead flats and take them down the hill unsorted, sized or planned. At the bottom they will have a finish mill/plant that will sort, plann, grade, stack and wrap them there. Generally speaking centerbeams are a pain to load and a company would probably prefer to only have to load them once. On the other hand a bulkhead flat with rough stack lumber with some straps holding it down can be more easily unloaded and the risk of damaging one of those expensive new centerbeams would be reduced.
When you get a track plan together be sure to post it !!!