The 1/50 project, a cardboard loco.
I think it will take me a while to get used to the size of a larger scale. Years of working in 4mm has put me in a mindset of the size of things, experience tells me the kind of internal volumes of things so I can make a reasonable guess at what will fit where.
A change of scale, period and a move to diesel means that I’m not totally sure about things. Spending a bit of time looking at various photos on the net has condensed my ideas. So an imaginary line in an imaginary country or island perhaps somewhere vaguely down towards the med or in the adriatic. Warmer than Glasgow for a start.
The loco would have been built by a private European company sometime in the mid to late 1950s for freight trains. A simple Bo-Bo diesel electric rated I would guess at about 500 kW. So likely a straight 6 cylinder. Twin cab, since I fancy that. Biggish radiators, warm climate. Fairly simple, lowish gearing, might do 40 kph on a good day with the wind behind it. Mainly pottering on at about 25 kph most of the time with trains of perhaps a dozen wagons. Train brakes would be air, so just a compressor and some blower motors, a reasonably compact engine compartment then. Multiple unit working ? Maybe, but make one first.
Going straight to a build seems a bit over ambitious. So I made a cardboard loco. Oh, and some cardboard people. 35 mm, so a vaguely average 1.75 m tall.
Feel free to have a laugh at that, or add to the design.
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