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Sojourn in Switzerland...

Chrislock

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Greetings.

Since a memorable holiday in Switzerland a few years ago I have been intrigued

by the narrow gauge railways of the WAB and SPB.

Alas the available RTR such as hrf are astronomically priced, though superb model.

I have been discussing various possibilities with a friend Paul, who is a big fan of the WAB

in particular and one way of creating a rack system for a reasonable figure is to adapt

the Fleishmann N gauge system to HOe.

The subject of how to recreate a little He2/2 has been a frequent topic between us.

And so I decided to try scratchbuilding a body from plasticard.

The plan was that the body would slip over the fleischmann rack loco, the compromise being

that it is a 3/3 not a2/2! However once the skirts and bits were added we thoight it

would be hardly noticeable.

Here is my first attempt:

 

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Regards

Chris

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Looks good Chris. Nice model of something you don't often see and rack railways do have a certain charm about them.

 

Nice bit of diversional therapy away from the Midland stock. :D

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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Hi Chris. It's always interesting to open one of your blog entries. You never know what scale and railway will appear :-) This one is pretty interesting!

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As the man says, diversionary and no more! This was built primarily to prove to Paul

that he could have a Swiss mountain railway without spending 2 grand on a hrf model...

To be honest it could do with more detail- pipes, plough etc and if I was doing this again I would

leave a door open and stand a driver in it.

The pantograph is a nice piece of engineering though, especially for 7 quid.

 

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