Garden Railway Forum

Since I'm freshly planted in this forum, I'ld like to share a bit of history on my garden railway builds. Most of the loco's are sold, since I moved on to live steam, but I think they are worth showing, just to serve as an inspiration may be for someone else..

My first build was based on a porter locomotive from LGB which I got for an apple and an egg (dutch saying for not paying too much for it). Made form plasticard and some scrap bits and pieces.





I could get a lot of wheels for free, so I made some lorries from it. Very straight forward, the same chassis for every car.



Then a small railbus, based on a ford T sort of chassis made from aluminium, the only problem is that the glue wasn't frost resistant, so it sort of falls apart bit by bit..







From the remains of the porter, I made with some plasticard and a motorised chassis from LGB a diesel shunter.







And a coal wagon to go with it..



Since I had 2 motorised chassis, I made another locomotive of the other one. It has a soundcard in it, but since it's short wheelbased and LGB used low quality materials, the wheels are damaged by sparks and it only is a static locomotive at the moment.









Another project was a scottish railbus. I found one in a book and on the internet there are several videos of it. The base was a toytrain "otto" locomotive. Both the motorpart and the truck took power from the track, in a try to deal with the trackwork which had a lot to suffer from the salty air. 2 axle locomotives and trackpower gave a lot of problems..







The last train I built for electric power via the tracks was a Garrat locomotive based on 2 stainz locomotives..





And some carriages to go with them..



Since I then discovered the joy of live steam, I switched from track power to live steam power. It really is the way to go and I don't have any conductivety problems anymore.. But building live steam is a completely different story which I really need to learn from the beginning again..

Great projects there..... I love your creative style and use of materials. I hope you kept some of them.

great pictures peter thanks for sharing some good looking models too

jim@NAL wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:55 pm great pictures peter thanks for sharing some good looking models too

Jim.... we have Daan to thank for the pictures, but I agree they are wonderful models.

Good looking models they are Daan. I like the railbus.

Cool stuff. Thanks for the share.

My pleasure, thanks for the compliments. I've recently rebuild the railbus with an other type of glue, may be it holds together now.

I love the wooden bodied wagons Daan, they are really nice. I guess you built them yourself.

Andrew

Some really interesting rolling stock and motive power Daan. I've made a couple of scratch built wagons, but nothing so much as yours.

sorry dann don't know why I put peters name still getting used to the new foram .some good looking models