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I am looking for ideas for what to use as cargo on four of the LGB #40540 Santa Fe 50 ft. Flatcars.
They are longer than what I would like for my layout (too modern) so I would like to find some sort of reason to justify them on a late steam/early diesel time era. I would also like the load to hopefully be inexpensive (cheap).
I had seen some long containers in a video (two containers per flatcar - 1 container high) but I would not know how to make them and they would not seem to fit the era of the layout.
The cars were obviously designed for some sort of drive on vehicles but I'm not sure what would look good and I don't want to pay more for the load than I did for the cars which were part of a LGB F7 ABA special.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jerry

They are longer than what I would like for my layout (too modern) so I would like to find some sort of reason to justify them on a late steam/early diesel time era. I would also like the load to hopefully be inexpensive (cheap).
I had seen some long containers in a video (two containers per flatcar - 1 container high) but I would not know how to make them and they would not seem to fit the era of the layout.
The cars were obviously designed for some sort of drive on vehicles but I'm not sure what would look good and I don't want to pay more for the load than I did for the cars which were part of a LGB F7 ABA special.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jerry