Gondola Interiors, Garbage Bags and staging tracks.

 

The foreground track is not attached to the layout. It is to make the yard look bigger than it is and to hold interesting equipment that one sees first.

I was asked a question recently where their garbage bags way back then. I had a group of them in a gondola. Most of my modeling is of the 1950's and at times I set the era as 1960's and 70's. 

The plastic garbage bag was invented in 1950 by a couple of Canadian boys for industrial use. Winnipeg hospital was one of the first to use these. They did not become household items till the late 1960's. I remember our family using tin garbage cans while I was growing up. I don't recall using garbage bags till I got married in 1975. 

So it is up to you if you include them in your modeling scenes. With a number of these being offered in 3-D printing I like the looks of them in scenes. I have only added them to one gondola which actually is not operating on the layout but in the foreground. I have a track staged in the foreground in WRJ and Bellows Falls which is not actually attached to the layout. These tracks are were I place interesting cars like flats and gondolas which adds to the scene...George Dutka

This is the only car I added garbage bags to as industrial waste. It is surprising how long these type of cars hung around for scrap and clean up service. I remember seeing CN gondola cars that were full of junk into the late 1970's that would have been scrapped much earlier if not in company service.

Overhead look at the staging track in the foreground. It is hidden at this end by the yard office and trees.

This it the interior of a Tichy gondola. I recently adding a bit of gravel, dirt and cinders to the interior. This one had crushed HO ballast added too. I leave it loose. I can always dump the loose stone if being stored...there really is no cost to that so it can be added once again. The skids and scraps are glued down.