Water crane

[ge_rik]

Hi folks
After just over ten years, locos on my railway have at last been given the means to quench their thirsts - a water tower (from a Model Town kit) and a water crane have been added to the main station.

Having looked around for suitable off the shelf models or kits, I felt I could cobble something together myself ....

Ingredients:

• main column = 5mm wooden dowel
• collars on the column = plastic tubing and barrel from a cheap biro
• base of column = tap washer
• valve housing = 10mm wooden bead
• valve = casting from Cambrian Models
• cap on column = end of plastic test tube
• joints on column = metal washers
• counterweight = end of plastic party 'blower'
• arm = 4mm wooden dowel covered in 5mm plastic tube
• support for arm = brass rod
• hose - heatshrink tubing

OK - it's not perfectly to scale, but I think it gives the essence of the real thing ......

It needs to be weathered and installed at the end of the platform, but I think it does the job!

More info about this and other developments on my blog - https://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/progress-report-68.html

Rik

Rik

 

[pugwash]

Looks good but I'm not sure about the wooden base, also most of the european jobbies have a lamp on the top end of the arm (in Luxembourg and Germany red and white).

 

[ge_rik]

Looks good but I'm not sure about the wooden base, also most of the european jobbies have a lamp on the top end of the arm (in Luxembourg and Germany red and white).

Hi
The base is temporary - just to hold it upright when being sprayed. My railway is UK-based so I felt I didn't need the lamp.

Rik