I recently installed some new, more realistic looking decks on my bulkhead flatcars. I purchased these directly from Micro-Trains. They appear to be printed images on thin, laser cut wood. One package is enough to do 3 cars with each having separate pieces for the main deck and the bulkheads.
After taking them out of the package and separating the parts I found the main deck piece to be just a bit too long for the decks on my cars.
This was corrected by sanding down just a bit at each end of the deck.
The edges to me looked a little too light when I test fitted the decks on the cars so I darkened the edges with a black sharpie pen.
Avery stick adhesive was used to attach the deck pieces to the car.
Here is a comparsion of one of the finished cars and another one yet to be done. I am pleased with the results and since I don't currently have many loads that I would place on these cars having a more realistic deck makes a difference.
