The 3D printer has been busy cranking out loads of lumber for the flat cars as I get ready for this year’s Railway Modellers’ Meet. I’d already printed quite a few loads, some of which are “factory seconds” and good only for experimenting, when I went back and looked at some photos of Canada Atlantic flat cars loaded with lumber.
The most striking feature of the real loads was that the ragged ends were all pointed the same way. It stands to reason as the flat cars were loaded by hand, and one stack could be piled while standing on the car deck, so only one stack had to be loaded from the end of the car. I also decided to make some of the loads a little lower to better reflect what I saw in the photos.
This realization lead to quite a few more loads, as the front load needs to have its stakes in a different location than the back load. When the resin stopped swirling, I had more than enough loads for my three cars, although I might make a couple more low B-end loads.
Pembroke:87 