An empty flatcar reads as unfinished. Chain down a bundle of pipe, crib a transformer amidships, drop a stack of 40-foot boxes into a well car, and the same train suddenly looks like it is earning revenue. Loads and containers are the cheapest per-car upgrade on a layout, and the one visitors notice first.
Walthers SceneMaster supplies most of this collection — intermodal boxes such as the 8805 N Scale 40' Hi Cube Ribbed Container in Mitsui OSK markings, plus highway trailers for piggyback and modern intermodal trains. Osborn Models covers open loads with laser-cut wood kits: the 1070 HO Flatcar Lumber Load, the 1143 Steel "I" Beam Load and the 3127 N Pallet Load Set. Sylvan Scale Models adds resin road pieces like the T-013 Pickup Box Utility Trailer, and TrainWorx does modern vans such as the 45384-05 N Scale Roadway Express 53' Highway Trailer #558677.
Roughly nine of every ten items here are HO, with a genuine N scale run behind it — Osborn's 3070 N Flat Car Lumber Load Kit and 3143 Steel I Beam Load, and Detail Associates' 8706 sand bottom dump trailer. The small detail parts that make a load believable are here too: Details West 1017 bridge plates for piggyback flat cars and Detail Associates 6422 stirrup steps for piggyback and auto rack flats. Micro Engineering rounds it out with loaded trucks, including the 96-138 N Log Truck.
More in HO scenery details, vehicles and freight cars. Ships from Oakville, Ontario. Free shipping on orders over $250.
