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Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread, but does anyone know if the open wagons would be re-gaugeable to 32mm, or have a picture of them behind a Roundhouse steam engine for comparisons?

Thanks,
Steven
 
Steven.T said:
Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread, but does anyone know if the open wagons would be re-gaugeable to 32mm, or have a picture of them behind a Roundhouse steam engine for comparisons?

Thanks,
Steven
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Yes, with the wheelsets being similar to a certain German brand, one can use the same method as used for that brand of pulling the wheels out of a bogie, pulling the wheels off the axle and cutting them and re-gauge to 32mm.

Another trick on the open cars, they look MUCH better with that other brand's spoked wheels also.

As most RH locos scale out to be much larger than SM32/16mm scale, you should be fine with these.
 
adeshers said:
hagen said:
pjti said:
I have had to shorten the buffers in order for the hooks to engage in the loops otherwise they would not couple up at all - anyone else had this problem.
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They are all like that
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Mine were as well - the solution is to remove them, put them in a vice and squeeeeeeeeze. Simples. :bigsmile:
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I found that just replacing the couplers with another type removed most of my problems.
 
I spoke with a railroading colleague at the Exeter Show in October. He liked the cheaper version discussed in this thread. There seems to be more than one product name for them.
Looking at the 'photos in post 43 it appears as though the body aised and ends are easily removed from the car flat bed. Is this so?
Maybe someone who has these cars can say. I am only interested, in them as flat cars, the body would be used for some kind of structure.
 
The Devonian said:
I spoke with a railroading colleague at the Exeter Show in October. He liked the cheaper version discussed in this thread. There seems to be more than one product name for them.
Looking at the 'photos in post 43 it appears as though the body aised and ends are easily removed from the car flat bed. Is this so?
Maybe someone who has these cars can say. I am only interested, in them as flat cars, the body would be used for some kind of structure.
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Yes, the sides and ends are easilly removed by prising them off the base with a screwdriver - which is what has happened to most of mine!
 
Many thanks for the confirmation. I will consider them for additional flat cars, if their length is not too short. #
I already have two Aristo 40ft. flat cars and intend removing the tanks from two Bachmann Big Hauler tank* cars to give me a further two flats. Ideally six flats would be nice.
Not sure what loads will be carried, other than the usual 'logs'. I have a wheel load and a 'coil' load already. I will look in the cheap toy departments in some stores for suitable lightweight loads. Crates I usually carry in open gondolas; covered gondolas, of course, can be carrying anything - even moonshine. Long time readers of the Forum (GSMad) may remember my 'moonshine' car. :bigsmile:

# It is noticeable that many dealers and some manufacturers web sites fail to give dimensions of rolling stock. I just canceled an order of a LGB 'special' hopper car as I found, when looking for further info about the car, that it was over 21" long and would therefore look disproportionate against my 1:29 stock.
* These tank cars do not look right with 1:29 stock, to my mind, but Big Hauler coal hoppers and flat cars do sit quite quite well with 1:29.
 
The Devonian said:
* These tank cars do not look right with 1:29 stock, to my mind, but Big Hauler coal hoppers and flat cars do sit quite quite well with 1:29.
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I agree. I have a rake of coal hoppers and a rake of timber wagons using flat cars. One of these started life as a tank wagon. The tank serves as a diesel tank - must build a new surround for it - the old one rotted.

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People often ask about dimensions - maybe we could build a database between us on GSC

Apologies for the thread drift
 
Chris M said:
The Devonian said:
* These tank cars do not look right with 1:29 stock, to my mind, but Big Hauler coal hoppers and flat cars do sit quite quite well with 1:29.
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I agree. I have a rake of coal hoppers and a rake of timber wagons using flat cars. One of these started life as a tank wagon. The tank serves as a diesel tank - must build a new surround for it - the old one rotted.

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People often ask about dimensions - maybe we could build a database between us on GSC

Apologies for the thread drift
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I agree a dimension database would be very useful !
 
The Devonian said:
Many thanks for the confirmation. I will consider them for additional flat cars, if their length is not too short. #
I already have two Aristo 40ft. flat cars and intend removing the tanks from two Bachmann Big Hauler tank* cars to give me a further two flats. Ideally six flats would be nice.
Not sure what loads will be carried, other than the usual 'logs'. I have a wheel load and a 'coil' load already. I will look in the cheap toy departments in some stores for suitable lightweight loads. Crates I usually carry in open gondolas; covered gondolas, of course, can be carrying anything - even moonshine. Long time readers of the Forum (GSMad) may remember my 'moonshine' car. :bigsmile:

# It is noticeable that many dealers and some manufacturers web sites fail to give dimensions of rolling stock. I just canceled an order of a LGB 'special' hopper car as I found, when looking for further info about the car, that it was over 21" long and would therefore look disproportionate against my 1:29 stock.
* These tank cars do not look right with 1:29 stock, to my mind, but Big Hauler coal hoppers and flat cars do sit quite quite well with 1:29.
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As I've got one to hand here at the moment, the flatbed is 37 cm long and 10 cm wide if you want the measurements.

I've got five of them "in store" for use under future conversion jobs, though I'm busy on another NQ passenger car conversion at the moment, so the others will have to wait in turn.....
 
Steven.T said:
Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread, but does anyone know if the open wagons would be re-gaugeable to 32mm, or have a picture of them behind a Roundhouse steam engine for comparisons?

Thanks,
Steven
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Picture no....video yes! (Ok, they're not directly behind the loco but the flat beds are in this goods train...)
At the CFR we run NQD mixed in with some LGB stock and on their own, they look perfectly fine and if something looks right, it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6EfFdpcuxo
 
Do you mean like this. They started as a 2 x 2 car sets out of the box and 4 tankcars and voila!! A mate made them and sells them. We have just got a shipment in from China. The coaches retail for NZD$70, boxcars NZD$57, twin packs NZD$73 and tankcars NZD$44. Of course you have to factor postage into that but with the Pound its pretty good. We have a cheaper price till the 15th Jan. We got six cubic meters of them here.:D:D:D

The Devonian said:
Buffers of Axminster have these models, or similar under the AMAX marque.
http://www.buffersmodelrailways.com/

Unfortunately I can't see me kit bashing them into an American outline but it has to be said they are good starter or 'bash' fodder.
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The raised gondola sides may be easily removed as stated earlier. One word of caution though is that the plastic used is very toylike and if LGB sidestakes are inserted in the sill stirrups, then expect the stirrup to crack as the plastic is not as elastic as that used by the German manufacturer.

I have converted several gondolas to flatcars with stakes and log load. They make an excellent flatcar. If the gondola is fitted with a load and spoked wheels fitted, the car takes on a new lease on life.
 
Thanks for the cautionary advice Tim. I have no LGB, only Aristo and Bachmann 1:22.5 stock. I did not think of fixing stakes, the Aristo and Bachmann items have those, but just a plain flat. I have yet to find an pic of an alternative securing method, other than stakes and sill stirrups, but some unusual items of railroad stock (real 1:1) often turns up when searching for something else.;)

#Addition:
Following on from the above I decided, this afternoon, to remove the tanks from my two remaining Bachmann cars. The previous two tanks were removed to enable small bobber cabooses to me mounted on the flat beds making for a more interesting car. One of these tanks was used as a storage tank, in the same manner as Chris M (see his post No. 58 in this thread). It has replaced a small Aristo tank which has since been re-united with its chassis.
The two flat beds do not look out of place with the two Aristo ones I have but are s little shorter and slightly less wide. All that remains to do now is to make the deck worn looking and weathered and apply a load if it is needed.
 
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