Garden Railway Forum

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.