Very nice!

I love the look of that load and thanks for sharing the PDF in your blog. I think there might be a lumber load in my future!

Nice!

Looks Great Chris!

Very Nice!

Excellent work!

Well worth the effort

Hi Chris:

You're right - it's a lot of work but it's also worth it. That's a great attitude and the car you've created is an outstanding example of doing it right. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers!

- Trevor

More Wrap Graphics

Did some more playing around tonight with some modern company logos pulled from online and fashioning up a few more lumber wrap graphics following prototype photos.

Many of these are more modern and I won't necessarily actually use a lot of these myself, but I share these with the rest of you.

http://vanderheide.ca/blog/2015/08/10/a-few-more-lumber-wrap-graphics/

Follow the above link for more attached PDF files.

Please feel free to use these to create your own loads. In fact if you do, I'd love to see the result.

(These are of course all sized for HO scale.)

looking good

That is nice work.......well worth the effort!

I don't have the fortitude for the graphics, templates and such, so I settled for a couple of the Lumber-Pak loads from Jaeger primarily because they had the name of the lumber company that existed for the era that Im modeling, and has since gone out of business and been completely torn down.......

Jerry

Thanks Chris

for posting this art.  I have several center beams that need loads, and these are perfect for that.  Plus I can use them in N scale with a little copier reduction.

Local Lumber Mill

I probably would have done that too except my lumber mill is a smaller more obscure operation and they didn't make a kit for that one. So I made my own.

Thanks Chris!

You have inspired me to put a lumber loaded centerbeam flatcar on my layout. Now your obscure lumber mill is selling it's product clear into California's San Joaquin valley!

 Thanks for sharing the graphics, I may use some of the others on future loads. 

Newaygo Load

Rick:

Neat!

Lumber Loads

Beautiful lumber loads, thanks for sharing some great ideas.

-Neil Schofield

Thanks for the Tolko

Appreciate the effort to do these Chris, I'll be putting these to good use on the HBR.

Marc Simpson

More Wrap Graphics

Did a few more graphics for various northern Ontario area mills, mostly served by either Algoma Central or Ontario Northland.

http://vanderheide.ca/blog/2015/09/26/another-round-of-lumber-wrap-graphics/

Newaygo Loads

Nice art work and finished prouct. Thanks for sharing with all of us.

Another Round

Worked up a few more wraps, mostly Quebec and B.C. companies with one or two bonus ones:

http://vanderheide.ca/blog/2015/10/18/yet-more-lumber-wraps/

Load Progress

I've also been working away at building a few more Newaygo loads, and making the blocks for a few Lecour and E.B. Eddy loads. I'll be sure to share some photos when I have a few more of those completed.

E.B. Eddy Load

Finished off a load for E.B. Eddy Forest Products last night; one of a pair. (Just finishing up the strapping on the second one - almost done. It was getting late last night.)

(The flatcar was kitbashed from an old MDC/Roundhouse car by shortening the body and bulkheads to represent a typical CP 51'6" car.)

Great project

Very nice looking loads, going to try this with the blank template and going for Quincy lumber over in Quincy, Ca.

Thanks

RJ

Chris, your work on these are

Chris, your work on these are great and very inspiring. Thank you for sharing!!

ERA- What year...

When did they start wrapping and shipping lumber this way?

Very nice work....

Era

Some lumber companies were definitely doing this in the late 1960s and it was becoming pretty common in the 1970s. I'm not sure exactly of the earliest usage though.

Most of the specific graphics I have on my site are a bit more modern than that, but the concept does go back at least that far.

Conrail Lumber Loading Reference Guide

One of the readers of my blog sent me several photocopied sheets of a small pocket reference book produced by Conrail for their forestry customers which is just great for studying the details of how prototype loads are put together and stabilized on regular and bulkhead flatcars. (Pre-centerbeam.)

http://vanderheide.ca/blog/2015/11/19/conrail-lumber-loading-reference-guide/

Thank you

Chris. A nice resource.

Charles

Conrail Lumber Loading Reference Guide

I would like to add my thank you for posting that.

 Art