Working on the steam tram....
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No it is an SNCV Vicinal Steam Ream. The French also had a few, the pan is on a Tram that is stood behind it.
Trev,
The one at Motat is a very much what I call a Steam Dummy. The one I was thinking of is where the bad earthquake was a year or two ?Wellington. Built in UK Falcon or suchlike.
JinD
Trev,
The one at Motat is a very much what I call a Steam Dummy. The one I was thinking of is where the bad earthquake was a year or two ?Wellington. Built in UK Falcon or suchlike.
JinD
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Here ya go.... I decided on swinging lifeguards soldered up from brass strip. The fixed ones I made for the electric cars cause no end of bother; always getting caught on something and getting broken. Eventually I'll replace the lot with this style. Not bothering with trays and scoops though... I have seen what happens when a drunk bloke wanders out in front of a tram and the damage inflicted by the lifeguard and tray was substantial, hardly a bone in his legs remained intact....trammayo said:Lifeguards? Do like the smoke (and the rest of it of course). Great work (as we expect of you) Trev
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Ohhh yes that is a nice little Steam Ream. I do like the ornate wrought iron work....dunnyrail said:
Maybe our Kiwi correspondents will know. It may be at Christchurch, then again it could be anywhere; NZ has some really interesting private railways....
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Yes, if you can make the jig quicker than you can half do the job then its a good moove. I'm not into making jigs that take months to make, use them once and them put them down the back of the pattern shoptrammayo said:Very nice Trev!
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I have had that avatar for a while.... I think is probably just a simple essence of what I am about.... Maybe I just thought it appropriate... I don't actually know.....whatlep said:Loving this thread Trev. Like the latest avatar too!
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Charles, I did give this some thought, I had an old 0-4-0 chassis and gas fired boiler organised but it would not run slowly enough to negotiate my tramway radius points and curves. I thought I could easily make up a pair of larger cylinders and did a bit of research. In the end I went with battery.....Charles M said:
I do agree that it would make a very nice model in LS though; don't have to be used in a Tramway sense either these were used in railways yards as shunters and in all sorts of odd places where a small loco was needed... Look at the load behind this one!
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I did fix up the coupler. Its a prototypical tongue and socket with a pin.... I made mine from K&S telescoping brass tube for ease of manufacture.....
I re-engineered a taper pin and a sleeve around the tongue to stop it when its in the socket far enough for the holes to align.
In the real thing there is a double ended socket with tongues on trailer and motor with a pin on each.... Would have been easy enough to make but hey the loose sockets would soon get lost....
The D shackle is out of a box of old marine fittings, it looks the part here and is about the right size.... I think....
The black wire is the jumper for lights to the trailer.....
I re-engineered a taper pin and a sleeve around the tongue to stop it when its in the socket far enough for the holes to align.
In the real thing there is a double ended socket with tongues on trailer and motor with a pin on each.... Would have been easy enough to make but hey the loose sockets would soon get lost....
The D shackle is out of a box of old marine fittings, it looks the part here and is about the right size.... I think....
The black wire is the jumper for lights to the trailer.....