Small, low-sided, 4-wheel wagons for indoor line.
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:23 am
When planning the indoor line, I wanted to use existing wagons and locos from the garden line. They do work ok but look a bit too large, so I have built 3 smaller wagons for the transportation of the clay.
These are just low sided flat wagons.
The frame is 8mm pine, the floor is coffee stirrers, the sides are 3mm balsa (or its equivalent – seems to be getting harder to get ‘real’ balsa).
They are just 150mm long. Coloured with black shoe polish.
24mm dia wheels from Peter Binnie (but the flanges are not deep enough at 1.5mm). Axles are 3mm knitting needles (running in styrene only)
Axles ‘boxes’ just bits of styrene and balsa as a rough approximation of the real thing not even any springs modelled . The 0.5mm styrene sides provide enough ‘flex’ to get the axles/wheels in or out.
Weight empty is only 65 g so another 100g of lead was added.
And so wagons 75, 76 and 77 join the Sandstone & Termite roster.
The loaded train heads down from the mine
Ready to be unloaded
Empties are returned to the mine
These are just low sided flat wagons.
The frame is 8mm pine, the floor is coffee stirrers, the sides are 3mm balsa (or its equivalent – seems to be getting harder to get ‘real’ balsa).
They are just 150mm long. Coloured with black shoe polish.
24mm dia wheels from Peter Binnie (but the flanges are not deep enough at 1.5mm). Axles are 3mm knitting needles (running in styrene only)
Axles ‘boxes’ just bits of styrene and balsa as a rough approximation of the real thing not even any springs modelled . The 0.5mm styrene sides provide enough ‘flex’ to get the axles/wheels in or out.
Weight empty is only 65 g so another 100g of lead was added.
And so wagons 75, 76 and 77 join the Sandstone & Termite roster.
The loaded train heads down from the mine
Ready to be unloaded
Empties are returned to the mine