Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Hi SS,

 

It might be of interest to you that in the prototype photo on the right, looks very much like the components that are used as the components that are used to couple a locomotive and tender. Did the carriage and wagon department nip over the road and take a few bits out of the loco stores I wonder?

 

All the best,

 

Castle

Thanks Castle

 

I love that idea.  I bow to your superior knowledge.

 

Hi SS,

..... looks very much like the components that are used to couple a locomotive and tender. Did the carriage and wagon department nip over the road and take a few bit out of stores I wonder?

Castle

Not a lot of point in reinventing the wheel - if the bar was strong enough to couple and engine and tender it surely would hold two B Set coaches together!

 

Regards

 

Ray

Good idea this. I've struggled with a reliable close-coupling solution for the B-sets which will also allow them to be propelled without buffer locking, though reverse curves and so on. The Keen system, which is my normal fallback, needs a bit more work to be used with the B-sets than with some of the other coaches.

No worries Ray - not superior knowledge but experience lifting the things!

 

Quite right about not reinventing the wheel - plenty strong enough I think!

A great post Ray, now with prototype photos too. But the highlight for me is your toothpick and bottle cork arrangement! I'm going to copy that. Very much in the spirit of the wagon and carriage dept too, using bits from other sections of the household!

Lovely comments Mikkel

.... the highlight for me is your toothpick and bottle cork arrangement! I'm going to copy that. Very much in the spirit of the wagon and carriage dept too, using bits from other sections of the household!

We have plenty of corks in other sections of our household!

 

Thanks Ray

Good work Ray.

 

Only one first class compartment in these coaches, the Russel book shows the wrong picture for a B set - leading to the erroneous labelling of compartments. It's all to do with the window spacing!

Thanks Tim

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Only one first class compartment in these coaches, the Russel book shows the wrong picture for a B set - leading to the erroneous labelling of compartments. It's all to do with the window spacing!

Pictures are useful, peoples memories are not as reliable.

 

Regards

 

Ray

Great post. I did something similar with some bent wire, but your version is much more elegant.

Dean

Thanks Dean, relatively quick and easy to make so when you get one wrong you can soon make another!

 

Regards

 

Ray