Here's my current design project, approaching completion.

This time, it's a specialty car for the Steel mill modelers.  This is a 300 ton, 12 axle,  Reichard "Bottle Car", used to carry molten steel.

The car was designed in CAD, then the pieces were 3D printed in UV cured resin material.

I'm still working on the end platform details, including handrails and brake gear.

Dunstan

www.firecatdesigns.com

I'm open to any suggestions. What is this load? For years (I took this picture in 1978) I assumed it was a load of ties. Now I realize it is not. I want to model it but would like some clue as to what it was.

How about rail car storage as a layout?

https://goo.gl/maps/hdctRV2JhWs

You've got tons of staging, yards, a wye, two loops to turn around (put those tropes to work!). You can also use an area of turnouts sitting in place that you haven't gotten around to setting up yet as a prototypical area of expansion.

They have several SD40s and south of the sand facility you can see the tracks being built to their now-finished maintenance facility and car repair shop.