PULPWOOD CARS LOADS

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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good morning to everybody.
i am modeling a papermill and wood industry complex, i would like to know if pulpcars ever had full with logs loaded,i am using some athearn 40foot cars and i am discarding the resin load and fitting the real thing. what cars are used to ship full lenght logs for sawing.

this is all ho work. based on the fingal railway .

regards

patrick

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Patrick…Dia dhuit. I assume you’re modeling the Fingal Rwy in Eire and not the Fingal Rwy in Tasmania.

In Ireland, I believe they’re considered pulpwood cars when the logs are resting with the ends toward the outside of the car with a bulkhead at each end. With the logs running length-wise, then they’re called log cars…no bulkheads present. The only Irish photo I have is a pulpwood car with the bulkheads in place and short logs resting perpendicular to the tracks.

From a logistic standpoint, cutting long logs to a specific length to fit between the bulkheads would be very difficult in the field and defeat the bulkhead purpose of keeping the shorter logs from rolling over the front & rear ends of the car.
Cam

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Cant really add aything to Cams post , except …

http://walthers.com/exec/search?quick=pulp+car

Have fun & be safe
Karl.

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good afternoon CAM.
THE MODEL IS ACTUALLY IN OHIO IN THE LAND OF THE FREE.
WHAT I WAS TRYING TO FIND OUT FROM THIS DISTANCE,IS ON THE PULP WOOD CARS DO THEY EVER LOAD LOGS AT FULL WIDTH. ie. 8feet long or are these loaded lenght ways. what type of car are long logs loaded on.

SLAN LEAT
PATRICK

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I have never seen pulpwood loaded along the length of a car. I’ve always seen them loaded crosswise, in other words perpendicular to the length of the car:

oooooooo wood
[_______] carbody
OO OO wheels

Sorry, I’m not graphical.

But that was in Upper MIchigan and they used gondolas with side stakes instead of bulkhead flatcars to haul pulpwood to the local papermill. (There’s a prototype somewhere for almost everything…)