Hi all together,
here in Wuppertal the temperature is to much. It is hot. So first of all I'll send you a photo from Wuppertal trams when it was a bit cooler.
But now I show you the small steps of what had be done to my tram projects. First a last report to the Düsseldorf tram. This tram 2309 has had test drives in Wuppertal, before the operator of trams decided to buy there own articulated trams. I bought this tram on ebay for a good price. But the problem was that this tram was not buildt in a good craftmenship work. The model losts parts and I started to repais it. This tram was also plannend to be a starte for my own tram from Wuppertal. But and that was a problem too Düsseldorf trams are 10 cm (2,30m) wider than Wuppertal trams (2,20m) Shortly before I got the Düsseldorf tram on Ebay I'd orderd a G scale kit in the 2,20m format. So I decided to refit the Düsseldorf tram model 2308 into Düseldorf tram 2309 who it looks in the 50th.
So it looked when it arrived at home. Some mistakes came with it. The former scratch builder did not watch to the right details.
This is the rear view. The lights are absolute wrong on that tram.
I repainted it and deleted the ad, because it was very pixellated. And as I run my trams on children fairs I don't accept any ad for an alcoholic drink.
Some more details had bin added to it. and the route number and destination is made now for the route 11, whre this tram runned in 1957.
The back end is also converted to the early time of DüWag trams.
On a friends garden railway layout:
The bridge is just new and not ready.
Albert couplings will be added at last. And a decoder comes today for it.
But now to my (dream) model.
On the same event my tram 3818 has had a test ride in the nature. It runs nearly perfect. Only little parts had to be inspected. All switches had been no problem.
It had been a nice play with it. But.... After arouind 30 or more rounds the tram stopped an o small gradient part of the layout. And my trams converted into a steam liner. Grrrrr. The decoder smoked. A circiut inside the tram, cooked it. A weight was too lose and made the contact. That's life.
Back at the work shop parts of the roof are made.
The lorry in the foreground is a project for a young boy (14) He liked to build it with my help. It is a radio controlled one. The youing man looks now fore more details.
Running boards, radio antenna resistor and a cap for the rope. is made. The is needed to raise the contact bow.
Brake and back lights are mad with a Lego brick. The little pipes take a 5mm LED.
On the back end it looks a bit different. The headlight is a bit smaller the the front one.
Most DüWag trams in Wuppertal could be filled with sand, from a sand tower. The sand is used against slipplery conditions or emergency brake. So I tried to make them by my self. It was not succesfull. So spend an order to firm woh does chemical etchings. My tram needs four lids to fill in the sand. Now I have 104 of those.
I had a photo made in a museum in Dortmund and measure it out. With the photo and my drawing the lids where made.
There it has to be!
It was tor warm here, so I didn't see what the macro lens showed me later. I have to clean the area with smoot sand paper.
With the same order level I'd ordered a steel grating for the roof part. This steel grating covered ressistors and other electrical things on the roof.
With the help of Thomas Engel, who produced it it was bent to a a grating part. Thomas Engel is also involved in G-scale and builds narrow gauge railwaays and other stuff in G-scale.
This is only a test how it could be. The poroblem is now, that parts of the resistors looking underness the side of the grating and they are visible. How to make it visible in G-scale? I do have some photos with parts of the roof. I'll try to make it realistic.
That's all for today. Hope that there are not so much Kraut-English, so you can understand, what I mean. Peter from Wuppertal / Germany
I tried, as you see in the following picture. Problem: test passengers told, that they had to puke and felt uncomfortable. So I decided to bring that car back on rails.
