Miamigo259
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As mentioned at the end of my previous thread on "Chinese Surgery", my next project is to produce something that resembles an Argentine Brake van, as shown in the photo below.............
The big problem, of course, is that I have only been to Argentina twice, and this is the only clear shot I have of a brake van. Normal freight trains don't have them nowadays, and to see freights you have to be in the right place at the right time, particularly if you are staying in Buenos Aires.
There is very little published on Argentine railways, either in the UK or elsewhere, which tends to limit your sources of information for modelling purposes somewhat!
Searching the internet comes up with very little......videos on You-Tube being the most useful, which you can at least freeze and print off pictures.
Ferroclub Argentino, the preservation group, do have a useful website, http://www.ferroclub.org.ar/ < Link To www.ferroclub.org.ar , which lists their preserved rolling stock and includes some general arrangement drawings of items, some of which are annotated in Feet and Inches as well as Metric measurements, given the UK ownership of many of the Railway Companies prior to 1948.
They have a 4-wheel brake van (broad gauge) preserved at their Escalada depot, built by the Bristol Wagon Co in 1911, which their website has a drawing for + photos, and a Standard gauge one like the ALL one shown above at their Lynch depot which claims a build date of 1970(!), but no drawings are provided, only a photo. At least the photo of the preserved one on their site shows the other end, with the handbrake wheel, which is useful.
Before I start, I'd better make it clear that I am not a scratchbuilding "expert", but can at least produce things that look like the items they are supposed to represent at the end of the day!
This project is likely to take a while to be completed, but I will post updates as and when I have been able to do some work.
The starting point for this job is one of the NQ bogie open wagons, the chassis of which unscrews from the body by removing four screws. The original intention was to shorten the detatched chassis and fix it under a completely new body, but on studying the photo of the brake van and seeing the frames under the bodywork, I decided to utilise the flatbed wagon body, suitably shortened.
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The big problem, of course, is that I have only been to Argentina twice, and this is the only clear shot I have of a brake van. Normal freight trains don't have them nowadays, and to see freights you have to be in the right place at the right time, particularly if you are staying in Buenos Aires.
There is very little published on Argentine railways, either in the UK or elsewhere, which tends to limit your sources of information for modelling purposes somewhat!
Searching the internet comes up with very little......videos on You-Tube being the most useful, which you can at least freeze and print off pictures.
Ferroclub Argentino, the preservation group, do have a useful website, http://www.ferroclub.org.ar/ < Link To www.ferroclub.org.ar , which lists their preserved rolling stock and includes some general arrangement drawings of items, some of which are annotated in Feet and Inches as well as Metric measurements, given the UK ownership of many of the Railway Companies prior to 1948.
They have a 4-wheel brake van (broad gauge) preserved at their Escalada depot, built by the Bristol Wagon Co in 1911, which their website has a drawing for + photos, and a Standard gauge one like the ALL one shown above at their Lynch depot which claims a build date of 1970(!), but no drawings are provided, only a photo. At least the photo of the preserved one on their site shows the other end, with the handbrake wheel, which is useful.
Before I start, I'd better make it clear that I am not a scratchbuilding "expert", but can at least produce things that look like the items they are supposed to represent at the end of the day!
This project is likely to take a while to be completed, but I will post updates as and when I have been able to do some work.
The starting point for this job is one of the NQ bogie open wagons, the chassis of which unscrews from the body by removing four screws. The original intention was to shorten the detatched chassis and fix it under a completely new body, but on studying the photo of the brake van and seeing the frames under the bodywork, I decided to utilise the flatbed wagon body, suitably shortened.
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