7/8ths wagons

[tom_tom_go]

So this was the start of my first 7/8ths wagon last year:





The axle boxes are sprung

After a long break I started on the second one today. The idea with these wagons is they have been re-gauged from a larger railway hence why they look big with Chaloner but will look right with my larger Accucraft Baldrig:






The couplings will be under slung shackle and hook with dumb buffers (purely because it's cheap)

I would appreciate suggestions as to what to load onto them. I originally thought about some sort of tank, however, the Swift Sixteen offering is too long.

[tom_tom_go]

This is what the buffer and under slung hook will look like once fitted to both wagons:

[Bill/Rubery]

Hello T.T. You could buy 35mm plastic waste water pipe and have the wagons carrying a sewage? pipe load??! The flat buffer on your wagon may cause buffer locking if going round tight bends. You may consider a buffer with a half moon curve to the face...these can be knocked up cheaply. I replaced the buffers on my 7/8" scale rolling stock with one's like that. Doing them myself saved me over seventy pounds over buying them!

[tom_tom_go]

Glad someone actually found this interesting

I noticed your locos from SMT articles Bill, you have a good attitude to freelance modelling.

The flat buffer beam works with no issues as I have very tight curves on my line and I justified fitting them by this picture I found:



Curved ones are more common place I agree but these were easier to make

[Annie]

That's interesting about the buffers. What a wonderful reference photo, - I'm going to snaffle that for my archives

[Andrew]

Looking good!

If you're going for an industrial feel you could just leave them as flats and make lots of interchangeable and interesting loads?

The local youths have recently inhaled a whole boxful of those little laughing gas canisters which they've left lying about empty at the top of the road - I'm thinking of collecting and painting them before adding them to little wooden (coffee stirrer?) crates as a mysterious chemical load. Actually, some have started to rust, which made me think of all the lovely rusty junk which adorns your line...

Cheers,

Andrew.