Tram coaches
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Neil Robinson
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Take a look at the utube video in the link below.
It shows an Eggerbahn 9mm gauge version of the loco with a couple of coaches. I understand that these are reasonable representations of a prototype OEG train.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVB2_Cmzn0
It shows an Eggerbahn 9mm gauge version of the loco with a couple of coaches. I understand that these are reasonable representations of a prototype OEG train.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVB2_Cmzn0
Oops should have added these. I think that these are as close as you can get t a good Tramway Coach out of LGB offerings the Bogie one is currently available via Marklin/LGB.
You can also find both of these in differing liveries, but not as an exact match to the Tram Loco that you show in the thread.
JonD
You can also find both of these in differing liveries, but not as an exact match to the Tram Loco that you show in the thread.
JonD
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Dtsteam
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This link will take you to a picture I found helpful http://www.heidelberg-images.com/content/e83/e97/e1373/index_ger.html
In the end I opted for an old LGB bogie coach, and I'll probably add a 4 wheeled van.
In the end I opted for an old LGB bogie coach, and I'll probably add a 4 wheeled van.
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vsmith
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minimans said:I've got a few of those Barmer mountain coaches if you want one Pauly!! come in green and brown they do........................
Jeeez...Dont you worry about earthquakes? I have galley rails in front of all my storage shelves.... keep'em on the shelve!
minimans
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I figure if I ignore the possability Vic it will never happen...........................................
Seriously the racks there on tilt toward the wall and we had a couple of good ones when we were down south the whittier shake comes to mind!!! but the trains never fell off, but now you've bought it up of course there all going to fly in the next one!!!!!!
Seriously the racks there on tilt toward the wall and we had a couple of good ones when we were down south the whittier shake comes to mind!!! but the trains never fell off, but now you've bought it up of course there all going to fly in the next one!!!!!!
MRail said:Pauly,
If you don't mind a bit of bashing...
My tram loco is from 2 x Porter cabs on a Playmobil RC chassis. (inspired by a GRS product about 10 yrs ago).
Coaches are 2 x Lehmann single balcony coaches joined back to back on LGB bogies.
Rob G
Steam trams and Trailers - great. Love them.
JonD
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On the tramway theme, here's my most recent scratchbuilt effort- Redlake Tramway Coach No.3:
The coach is built from thick plasticard and plastruct girders, with glazing material supplied by Jacksons Miniatures. The interior features longitudinal bench seating but to strengthen the body structure I've had to install a vestibule at the halfway point. The balcony railings were steel fabrications on the original and because I didn't have either the right wattage soldering iron or the right gauge wire I had to cut and file the railings from a sheet of plasticard. They're too thick, of course. The roof is a cut down Tenmille moulding. Number transfers to match the originals are a Chris Moxham product. The real colour of the coaches was thought to be red oxide, but as my other westcountry tramway rolling stock is this general shade I thought I'd apply a little artistic licence!
The bogies are LGB spare parts from GRC in Cheltenham. If they look out-of-scale, that's because they are. The original coaches - 4 were supplied along with open wagons and the two steam locos that worked the 3' gauge line by Kerr Stuart- were mounted on tiny bogies that allegedly rode roughly, although the Redlake Tramway was very well engineered with sweeping curves over southern Dartmoor, so it's hard to understand why. Anyhow- I couldn't find any bogies or bogie kits that resembled the originals, but the scale/gauge combination I've used is as much to blame.
The Redlake Tramway opened in 1912 and connected the Cantrell China Clay Dries on the GWR main line at Bittaford with the Redlake China Clay pit in the heart of Dartmoor. The coaches were used to take workmen to and from the clay pit, and the wagins carried coal and supplies up the line. The china clay was carried by gravity as a slurry down a twin pipeline from the pit to Cantrell. When the line closed with the collapse of the China Clay Corporation in 1932, the sole motive power was an Atkinson Walker steam tram engine.
The coach is built from thick plasticard and plastruct girders, with glazing material supplied by Jacksons Miniatures. The interior features longitudinal bench seating but to strengthen the body structure I've had to install a vestibule at the halfway point. The balcony railings were steel fabrications on the original and because I didn't have either the right wattage soldering iron or the right gauge wire I had to cut and file the railings from a sheet of plasticard. They're too thick, of course. The roof is a cut down Tenmille moulding. Number transfers to match the originals are a Chris Moxham product. The real colour of the coaches was thought to be red oxide, but as my other westcountry tramway rolling stock is this general shade I thought I'd apply a little artistic licence!
The bogies are LGB spare parts from GRC in Cheltenham. If they look out-of-scale, that's because they are. The original coaches - 4 were supplied along with open wagons and the two steam locos that worked the 3' gauge line by Kerr Stuart- were mounted on tiny bogies that allegedly rode roughly, although the Redlake Tramway was very well engineered with sweeping curves over southern Dartmoor, so it's hard to understand why. Anyhow- I couldn't find any bogies or bogie kits that resembled the originals, but the scale/gauge combination I've used is as much to blame.
The Redlake Tramway opened in 1912 and connected the Cantrell China Clay Dries on the GWR main line at Bittaford with the Redlake China Clay pit in the heart of Dartmoor. The coaches were used to take workmen to and from the clay pit, and the wagins carried coal and supplies up the line. The china clay was carried by gravity as a slurry down a twin pipeline from the pit to Cantrell. When the line closed with the collapse of the China Clay Corporation in 1932, the sole motive power was an Atkinson Walker steam tram engine.
This is a tramway coach. Actually this one is made from a Bachmann street car. No reason you couldn't use them as is. There are plenty around with dead motors and could be made into free-wheelers quite easily. Also gives you the option of having toast-rack carriages.
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minimans
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corgi said:This is a tramway coach. Actually this one is made from a Bachmann street car. No reason you couldn't use them as is. There are plenty around with dead motors and could be made into free-wheelers quite easily. Also gives you the option of having toast-rack carriages.
Going by the one I had there must be a TON of dead trams around!!!!!
