Enthusiasm Reignited
Enthusiasm Reignited
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 tins and plywood. One of the tobacco tin wagons has travelled well over a million miles, having been the container for my buttons and needles during my 40 years at sea. On the right at the back is a somewhat oddly shaped grounded brake van - my first attempt - it will end it's days mouldering quietly in the long grass as a loco depot mess room. All I have to do now is go out and build a railway!
What a cracking present. It has to be better than socks and smellies!
I think you have hit the nail on the head with the '6ft rule'. And those 'baccy tin wagons look great. I was at the local industrial museum today (Kidwelly Tinplate Museum, well worth a visit) And there were a few old mining trams (tubs) there, they don't look too far off your wagons, being built from pressed steel and having curved corners.
I think you have hit the nail on the head with the '6ft rule'. And those 'baccy tin wagons look great. I was at the local industrial museum today (Kidwelly Tinplate Museum, well worth a visit) And there were a few old mining trams (tubs) there, they don't look too far off your wagons, being built from pressed steel and having curved corners.
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I actually entered mine for MOTY...................
There had been an article in SMT about somebody's railway, and the author happened to mention how many old tobacco tins he had in his workshop to store bits and pieces in. For some bizarre reason, this sparked off the most vitriolic correspondence, with some saying "We don't need to know how many tobacco tins he's got - get on with the modelling" and some saying "It's interesting hearing how he runs his workshop".
So, I built mine, painted it as a mine car (because there are some at Butterley, in use on the narrow gauge) and entered it as "Another Use for a Tobacco Tin"!
There had been an article in SMT about somebody's railway, and the author happened to mention how many old tobacco tins he had in his workshop to store bits and pieces in. For some bizarre reason, this sparked off the most vitriolic correspondence, with some saying "We don't need to know how many tobacco tins he's got - get on with the modelling" and some saying "It's interesting hearing how he runs his workshop".
So, I built mine, painted it as a mine car (because there are some at Butterley, in use on the narrow gauge) and entered it as "Another Use for a Tobacco Tin"!
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