Building removable steel loads

Having realistic loads on our rollingstock makes the railway/layout look more like the prototype. Studying local operations, you will find most loads are directional. A few years ago, a wagon may have carried a load of sawn timber to a local hardware store located in a western town. The wagon's next load would be something completely different, like a load of wool or maybe it went empty to another station to fill orders.

AMRM issue No.340 February 2020 published an article on trains worth modelling, Queensland Railways (QR)/ QRNational (QRN) ‘Sweeper’ freight train No. 243 and 752. In this article the author Lincoln Driver describes the trains' operations on the North Coast Line. In short, train No.243 conveyed mostly loaded wagons