Garden Railway Forum

I have to admit that the baccy tin wagon idea came from an article in Sixteen Mill Today from years ago - on the Budley Bumblebahn I think.

I decided on an IP Engineering budget chassis in the end - seeing how simple it was has decided me to make my own in the future. The wagons have been made bomb proof (hopefully) as my grandson is only 28 months old. Colour scheme of the wagons suggested by his 5 year old cousin! The battery is going...

The loco my sons gave me is an MSS side tank. None of the wagons would suffer close inspection but I'm a great believer in the ' If it looks ok from six feet away it's ok' school of modelling!

./myff/1869316/DSCF4059.JPG For my 70th birthday my sons gave me a 16mm/foot narrow gauge steam loco, wagons and track, thus reigniting my interest in garden railways. During the winter I built a small diesel from a kit, a flat wagon from a kit and the rest of the wagons in the photo from tobacco t...

One of the standard gauge 'Thomas The Tank Engine' lookalikes has a large Calor Gas bottle as a false dome!

Thanks DaveWatkins, I'm not sure I would have been brave enough without help! As you will see the chassis fits, sort of, either with the motor in the boiler and possibly the batteries in the cab roof or the motor in the cab and the batteries in the boiler. http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/Ho...

Very good. I wonder if an HGLW power chaissis would fit under that body. I've just bought the friction drive version and have an HGLW chassis to hand as I'm building one of his diesels. If someone could tell me how to separate the chassis from the body without breaking something I'll answer that qu...