Flatcar with Timber Load, Vintage Logging Wagon Model

A railway flatcar loaded with a stack of round logs, each with growth rings marked on its ends. Upright stakes along both sides hold the load, and curved straps wrap over the top. The flatcar has a ribbed deck edge and sits on two bogies with couplers at both ends. Stake flatcars carried logs from forests to sawmills on logging railways and main lines from the 19th century well into the 20th, and loaded log cars are a favourite subject for railway dioramas. Paint the logs in warm wood tones wit…

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