Wood Floors for Two Freight Cars

I ordered on-line two different laser cut wooden decks this week from Imagine That Laser Art, and received them last weekend.  These things are only 7/10ths of a mm thick, so you would have to look really closely at their thickness to even notice it.  Really nice.

One is for the floor of an ExactRail Thrall gondola, and the 2nd one is for a the deck of a Walthers PS 60 foot bulkhead flat car. They fit the two freight cars perfectly and they look great right out of the package.

So here's a look at these...The bulkhead flat deck on the left, and the gondola floor on the right.

These simple little kits are certainly easy enough to use... even I can do it.  Just gently cut or pop them out, and do a little bit of very light sanding or filing of the tiny tabs that hold them into the wooden frame.

The two railcars about to receive their new deck and floor.  That floor that's in the gondola now is a removable one that I previously made from styrene.  And just a quick note about the length of that Walthers 60 foot bulkhead flat, between the bulkheads length is only 48 feet.

 

The Imagine That instructions said to use the gel type of CA glue to attach the parts to the models, so that's just what I did.  Maybe some weathering will be done later, but for now I'm going to leave them as-is.

One thing that does bother me about this little project is that Imagine That did not include boards to run down the centre of the bulkhead flatcar as part of the kit, and I wonder why not.  

I haven't yet added the wooden bulkheads, as I was wanting to put some graffiti on at least one of them, but I haven't quite gotten to that yet.

This is my "drone" view of the Thrall gondola with the wooden floor installed - it just drops right into place - as it sits alongside another same type of ExactRail gondola with one of my styrene floors.  I'll have to try to figure out what loads might be used on this wooden floor.  I don't think the railroad would want a backhoe or something digging scrap off of the wooden floor.

That'll be all for now.  Happy modelling.