Fantastic work Bernhard,

Fantastic work Bernhard, thanks for sharing. It is most interesting to see the methods used to make the little parts you used to secure your load. The photo of one of the turnbuckles on the end of your finger is truly stunning. In looking at the tiny part it is something to imagine installing it another entirely to imagine building it from syringe needles!

I hope this statement does not get lost in the translation as I know English is not your first language, but even though you showed me how you do it I still don't know how you do it!

Congratulations on the publication of your article in such a highly detail oriented publication. There are bound to be others trying to emulate your building of turn buckles now.

Rob in Texas

Rob, thanks for your friendly

Rob, thanks for your friendly comment.

I got your message understood very well and I would say, just try to start your own turnbuckles. First what you need are a thin pipes (or canulas) and a well fitting steel wire. And reasonably good tools for handling small items. Please look my webpage to get some more help by my pictures. And last, do not start with the smallest parts that you would like to have.

Maybe that the first two or three attempts will fail, but you will see that the parts with each attempt succeed a little better. Wish you courage and success!

My 1930 models....

Great flat car!  A great source for model boats and hardware for layouts is Bluejacket Shipcrafters....check out their website!

why so sad?

i can't help myself, but when i read the post title, i thought, 'why is this freight car so sad?'  seriously, i think i need another shot of espresso this morning to wake up.

Doug, I hope that you have

Doug, I hope that you have found the "key" for this description. But here a picture additionally.

Unfortunately this club does not own harbor scenes, so the car was set on a siding. However the railroad freaks explored this car with its unusual load already.

And yet a picture of a part of that fixing stuff.

Nice detail

I like the detail, good job securing the load.

@NSengineer, thanks!

@NSengineer, thanks!

This is a great engineering.

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Darren, thanks! Read more

Darren, thanks!

Read more about this project in The Keystone Modeler - Spring 2014. Please use the download link in my opening post.