Four wheels on my wagon !!!!
Ill just sit here and start that empty coal train i’ve been going to start for some time!Thats what i thought the other weekend when the weather looked as ity might be good to us. So i set up to do outside in the Sunshine. Then on Sunday had to nip up to Bury to name a Tram. Then back to work to get a book to the printers by the end of the month! Oh i did isay i’m doing a program about Churchill for the BBC.
pete waterman
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Something always manage to get in the way, That s160 would look great at the head of your coal train though pete!!!!
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
The pictures of the wagons are quite mesmerising ! I think eventually the plan for the West Mersea layout is to have 1000 Scale7 wagons, all with working brake gear too… whether it will ever happen or not is anybodies guess.. haha
On another note, if anyone should happen to be cleaning the S160 ‘5197′, watch out for a particularly sharp splinter of metal on the right hand crosshead.. It left a very sizeable hole in my finger I can tell you !!
JB.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Drive me up the wall making all those wagons!. I took the easy way out and bought a box of LIMA ones..
Saw the S160 at the WSR gala. What a sound on that whistle. Magic. Certainly was a nice weekend. Highlight was Lord Lewis swanning it by on that great big green thing!. rgds
Graham Powell
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
1000 wagons with working brake gear in scale 7 wow. Its taken us over 5 years and we’ve still got 600 to go! That will put another hole in you other finger or is it pocket? And just think thats 4000 wheels to keep clean.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:44 am
This has given me the incentive to get the 20+ Piercy 21t hoppers in the cupboard finished.
Trouble is when the sun shines I get withdrawal systems if I don’t get out on my bike.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hello Pete,
Just as a matter of interest do the wagons on Leamington have any sort of sprung suspension, I can never work out whether the effort involved is worth it ?
Cheers
John
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:20 am
Yes all wheels move in there W irons its easy todo and works as well as spings. Short wheel base wagons can be a night mere. Its well worth doing it.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 am
Hello Pete,
What method are you using for springing. My LNER 21t hoppers reveal too much between the wheelbase framework therefore I cannot use Exactoscale units.
I am looking for a method using piano wire which is rigid and springy. As my 16 x 2foot Sevenscale shunting plank is based on a Tyneside area colliery exchange sidings springing is essential.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 am
I will take a look at the kit and work it out just let me get a kit.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
On the 21t wagon is the Wiron and axil box one casting or are they as on the realthing?
June 4th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Its all one casting on the underframe. Its all white metal. I am experimenting with piano wire and if it is successful I will post it on the blog.