Today on the WGLR

Mel next time you come to play trains or vice versa you can at least have the chassis FOC mate. It's doing no good where it is you just have to promise to post piccies of the result :bigsmile: - we still need to arrange a WGLR visit...
 
CoggesRailway said:
Mel next time you come to play trains or vice versa you can at least have the chassis FOC mate. It's doing no good where it is you just have to promise to post piccies of the result :bigsmile: - we still need to arrange a WGLR visit...
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Top man. :thumbup:
 
yb281 said:
Sir T H announced that he had finally decided to scrap Clarabel (!!!!!!!).
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About time. Naming a carriage after a cow was bound to end in tears. :bigsmile:
 
J2s said:
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You want Milk with that sir?
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Now that is an interesting pic, assuming it IS a milk tanker, ( I thought 3 star was petrol!! :rolf: )
Or is that Red Star Parcels 3 star service, all wrapped up in a glass liner :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
I must say I cant remember seeing a milk tanker with an insulated top on it before, but it would make a lot of sense on a hot summers day
maybe I have not really been looking

EDIT just enlarged that in paint shop photo, the wording on the side is
"United Dairies Wholesale Ltd."
 
The parcels van has now been finished ( http://www.gscalecentral.net/m122589 ) .............................

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.......................so the standard gauge siding is now getting pretty full with all 4 wagons and the pannier tank out.

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Having said that, I've probably got three times more narrow gauge stock than I could possibly run on the WGLR, so why should the standard gauge be any different? I've certainly got plenty of ideas for more wagons based on the Thomas stuff ............ and who knows what they'll add to the range in the future? :bigsmile:

That's the thing that the wives don't understand isn't it - why have you got loads more trains than you can fit on the railway? I just tend to mention shoes and handbags. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
I think that is the finest train of scabby wagons I have ever seen!The dirty deplorable state of your rolling stock is a credit to you.
 
Now here's a thing -

Ian (Cogges Railway) paid a visit today and very kindly gave me a rather battered Bachmann Annie coach. Obviously ;) the chassis is a definite possibility for re-gauging as the basis for a standard gauge summat - so the question is what to do with the body and I'm thinking Camping Coach?????

Just been messing about with some things from the spares box etc. and here's what I found - the Thomas coach bodies fit perfectly on a Hartland bogie flat car. Who'd have thunged it? :bigsmile:

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The problem is getting hold of Hartland stuff in the UK these days - I got this one from the Back2Bay6 stand at Llanfair 3 years ago I think. Only cost a tenner. The clerestory is from an LGB coach and will need only slight modification to make it fit.

Still, it's got me thinking ................... :thinking::thinking::confused::confused:
 
Looks great already Mel. The light brown (varnished wood) looks good on an old clerestory coach. Knock off the stake holders and your nearly there. :thumbup:
 
stockers said:
Looks great already Mel. The light brown (varnished wood) looks good on an old clerestory coach. Knock off the stake holders and your nearly there. :thumbup:
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My thoughts exactly mate. Knock up some running boards too, replace the "Annie" with some "camping coach" transfers - Robert's your aunty's husband. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
So, having drilled some (fairly) accurate holes in the flat car, I've been able to attach Annie using her original screws ................ and that got me thinking (I know, I know, I should know better).

Forget the camping coach idea (or rather, file it away), I'm quite liking this ...........

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It's a restaurant car, but they've run out of stakes (groan from the audience) :rolleyes:
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cap, waterproof, door...
 
pugwash said:
It's a restaurant car, but they've run out of stakes (groan from the audience) :rolleyes:
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"Coat for Pugwash, coat for Pugwash". :rolf::rolf:
The face end of Annie was damaged, so (after sawing her nose off!!) I built a new end panel out of plasticard and glued it over what was left of the original end.

As you can see, she's also had a re-paint. Have to get some Rover Damask Red tomorrow.

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One thing I have found out is that the Hartland flat car has a slight bow built into the load bed. If you really tighten the screws holding the coach body, this straightens out this bow, but the wheels then catch on the underframe when running over the slightest undulation in the track. There are two solutions - one is to insert a washer between the bogie and the frame to give more clearance. I tried this, but it tends to make the bogie pivots stiffer. So, I tried the second method which was to make some plasticard spacers which fit between the body screw mounts and the wagon deck. This maintains the bow in the flat car and seems to have done the trick.
 
Coach is looking fantastic Mel :thumbup: Do you work 24/7 :sleep:
 
Fantastic job Mel, it's looking lovely. I must complain however that the speed of your work is outrageous and is making me feel extremely inefficient!! ... Only kidding!
 
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