Purchased an Athearn RTR heavy duty flat car that came with a load. (Athearn Item 92239 - Santa Fe.) Anyone have an idea of what the load is suppose to be? Here is a link to Athearn’s website showing a picture of it. http://www.athearn.com/Search/Default.aspx?SearchTerm=92239
Looks like some form of generator or large diesel engine to me, though I’d guess it’s supposed to be a generic piece of machinery.
Kind of looks like a small gas/turbine power plant item.
I would add chains to hold it down then sheet it over with tarpaulins. Wouldn’t matter what it was supposed to be then and it would look a whole lot better [:)]
That thing looks like a scaled up version of the HVAC unit on my roof. I’d be willing to put my money on an air handler for an office building.
To go a little farther with David Foster’s idea - instead of covering something you had to pay for, make up a shape out of scrap wood and detail the tarpaulin. A lot of them have company logos and other lettering stenciled on them. My open bi-level auto rack can either eat ten detailed 1964 Honda sedans, or an equal number of reddish-orange blobs shaped like the car covers they were shipped under. I’d rather use the cars on the street, or in a passenger station parking lot.
Since you already have that thing, you can use it as roof detail on a commercial building.
It’s sopposed to be a genererator. There are wooden crates on the ends to cover and protect parts of it. It kind of looks like a Siemens generator but I never took any pictures of ones I moved and I could’nt find any pictures on the web. Here is a link to a site that has many pictures of General Electric generator loads, I also have many pictures of these as they are bigger and wheigh more than the Siemens. The I beams on each end are part of the tie down to keep it from moving front to back, there also would be steel welded directly to the deck of the railcar to keep it from moving side to side. The steel would be unpainted.
http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/loads/generator/generator.html