Pulpwood Anyone?

[railfanalex]

Hey guys, thought I'd share a few pulpwood loads and some weathering I did a few weeks ago.













I made the load with some scrap branches from my neighbour's tree he cut down. I think it looks pretty darn good, took about 3 hours per car to do, and I did 5 of them!

Proto photo:

[tankcarsrule]

Alex, you did a fine job! What type of wood did you use?

Bobby

[railfanalex]

It is all Maple. Not sure if that is a popular tree for pulpwood or not, but that's what I had on hand.

[deez]

Wow! Those look great!

[cbq2bn]

Jun 13, 2010 15:37:50 GMT -5 @gp9bn1799 said:

that looks awesome want to do some southeastern v deck pulp wood loads for me oh sorry i forgot i'm in n scale lol

That is really nice looking, alot better then those cheesey plastic things they try to pass off as loads.
N scale is easy, the maple in the yard here has a ton of (baby maples) sprouting all over, just gotta use the baby ones to make baby loads ;-)
How may trees you need? lol....

Just for the pulpwood record,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulpwood


It shows maple in the Chemical composition of pulpwood chart, so I guess it is correct wood to use?

[icghogger]

That is a Great Job, Alex!

[spud7378]

great job alex those look great

[m a y o r 79]

Turned out really good Alex. I did something similar, but with smaller "logs" and only on two cars. I also made up a pulp wood load for a 50ft gon using the same concept. Makes for some nice variety in the train.

Great job on the load.

[cbq2bn]

What did you use to cut those?

I have a culping saw blade, or piece of one I use to light sawing in a large exacto knif handle, but for more cutting like this I'd like a better way to do it.

[railfanalex]

Thanks for the compliments!

Larry, I just used a Zona razor saw blade and a miter box. I also used a simple jig so I cut the wood at the right length.