High Wide & Rail Marine References

AAR - General Rules Governing the Loading of Commoditeis on Open Top Cars

Partial document - Published 1/1/1960, Reprinted 8/1972
  Section 2 - Loading of Steel Products including Pipe P 70 - 82
  Mounting wheels - 108 - 111
  Section 4 - Loading Miscellaneous Commodities including Machinery p 22 - 42
  Loading 16" gun barrels - P 106 - 108

British Railway Modeling

Exceptional Wagons for Exceptional Loads - 11/2014


Books

Classic Freight Cars The Series Vol. 6 Loaded Flats and Gondolas" by Henry Maywald
Pennsylvania Railroad Flat Cars – Revenue & Work Equipment PRR Historical Society
Waterfront Terminals and Operations - Bernard Kempinski - Kalmbach
Open Top Loads: Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio Volume 1 - Morning Sun
Open Top Loads: Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio Volume 2 - Morning Sun
Open Top Loads: Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio Volume 3 - Morning Sun
Open Top Loads: Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio Volume 4 - Morning Sun
Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Vol. 3 Automobile Cars and Flat Cars - Signature Press

Clinics

Ships and Boats for the HO Waterfront -by Mat Thompson - Potomac NMRA

Diesel Era

Transportation of Navy Nuclear Fuel - Sept/Oct 1991


Garden Railways

Scratchbuilding a Schnabel Railcar - 4/2014


Keystone Modeler

Part 1 - Introduction - #23 June 2005
Part 2 - Class FM - #25 August 2005
Part 3 - Class F22, - #26 September 2005
Part 4 - Class F2 - #27 October 2005
Scratch building an F25 - #27 October 2005
Additional Comments on F25 Modeling - #28 November 2005
Part 5 Class F28 "Depressed Well" - #29 December 2005
Part 5 Class F29 - January 2006
Military Load for the Class F22 Gun Flats, - #32 March 2006
Part 7 - the F30, F30A and Related Classes - #36 July 2006
Part 8, the F31 and F31A - #39 October 2006
Part 9, the F33 - #40 November 2006
Part 10, the F34 - #41 December 2006
Part 11, the F35 - #42 January 2007
Part 12, the FK - #42 January 2007
Part 13 the F37 and F37A - #45 April 2007
Scratchbuilding PRR Class FL Flat Cars - #45 April 2007
Part 14 the F36, - #46 May 2007
Part 16 the F37B - #48 July 2007
Part 20 the F33 - #73 July 2010
F29 Flat Car propeller load, p.22 - Spring/2014


Mainline Modeler

Lockheed Wing Car -3/2002
Well Hole Flat Car - 6/2000
DODX Flat Cars - 9/1996
Heavy Duty Flat Car, Class "FD" - 10/1999


Model Rail Hobbyist

Meet Model Railroad Artist Dave Davis - 7/2013 (available online) corresponding video
Monster Flat Car Load - 12/2011 (available online)
Building a flat car tank load - 6/2011 (available online)


Model Railroader

Bachmann HO scale Schnabel car - 11/2012
Build and operate a supersize flatcar load - 3/2011
- video of one like it running How to model super-size loads - 7/2008
Chain, chocks and shackles - 6/2005
Operating oversize loads - 6/2005
CCF depressed center flat car - 6/1999
Four - truck Flatcar - 11/1989
Boston & Maine well-hole flat 2/1983
Kitbashing a well-hole flat car - 10/1978
Scratchbuild a depressed flat car - 3/1978
So you need a heavy duty depressed-center flat car - 4/1975
Clearance Car - 11/1960
Build a Model of This Loaded Well Car - 1/1944 (BM then General Electric)


Model Railroading

Guide to Flat Cars - 5/1995


NMRA Magazine (Bulletin, Scale Rails)

Model an Escort Caboose - 4/2020
Using Dimensional Loads to Enhance Operations - 12/2011
Heavy Loads CEBX 800 - 4/2006 drawing (available online)
Modeling a Boeing 737 Fuselage transport - 7/2005
Cat end loader on a chain-down flatcar - 11/1999
Operating those open loads - 7/1999
Big Pipe loads - 5/1999
Open Loads: Large Boiler Load - 10/1993
C.E.B.X. #100 (Schnabel Car) - 2/1979
Schnabel Car - Shipping High Wide Load - 2/1979
Heavy Duty Well Flat - 7/1979
"Schnabel" Car - W.E.C.X. 102 - 8/1972


Prototype Modeler

Schnabel WECX 102 - 4/1978 (available online)


Railmodel Journal

Scratchbuilding: Schnabel 72-wheel transformer cars - 3/2008 (available online)
PC 766215 Depressed Center Flatcar from Eastern Car Works - 7/2002 (available online)


Railroad Model Craftsman

Woodbourne substation – Scratch building a prominent utility in O scale - 11/2015
Transporting a Heat Exchanger - 4/2014
Editors Notebook - High and Wide - 4/2014
The PRR F33 Deep Well Flat Car - 7/2010
Modifying a Walthers depressed center flat car - 10/2007
Santa Fe FT-13 depressed center flat car - 1/2007
Modeling flat car loads of the Bucyrus-Erie plant - 5/2006
Bucyrus- One piece at a time - 4/2006
General Dynamics' airplane parts car - 1/2005
TTX's heavy-duty, 12-axle DSH45-class QTTX flat car - 3/1999
Scratchbuilding an HO heavy-duty QTTX flat car - 3/1999
Wide Bodies Prespecitive - 6/1998
Modeling a 90-ton depressed flat car - 6/1998
Odd Loads - 8/1996
Freight Car loads - 6/1995
Upgrading a QTTX depressed center flat car - 12/1994
TTX company's QTTX depressed center flat cars - 7/1994
- a copy of this article is on the Walthers web site
TTX Company's ISH50 heavy-duty flats - 6/1993
Modeling a straight-deck QTTX car - 6/1993
Kitbash a well hole flat car - 10/1978
Southern Pacific class F-125-3 depressed-center flat car - 3/1977
a well hole flat car with a boiler pipe load - 11/1976
C&O, NYC and Western Maryland Well-hole flat cars - 11/1976
Lehigh Valley well hole flat car - 8/1968
Santa Fe Depressed Center Flat Car - 8/1965
Depressed Center 250 Ton Flat Car - 10/1964
300 Ton D & H Flat - 8/1962


Trains

Funky Freight - 3/2012
High, wide and hairy - 2/1992


Historic Society Magazines

CN Lines - CN's Well Hole Flat Cars - Volume 11, Number 1
North Western Lines - 48051 and 48053 Heavy-Duty Flat Cars - Number 2 2006


On Line

Scratchbuilding an F25 Well Flat Car
Modeling a Gas Turbine load
Gene Jameson's Large Transformer Loads clinic
- Clinic Handout
- Clinic Slides
- Transformer Drawing