Does anyone know the answer to this?

[Bandicoot]

Simon,

 

Personally, I was hoping for 1/76, as there appears to be plenty of 1/87 rolling stock around, if it’s not sold out or discontinued.

 

The same applies to the OCEM (is that right?) wagons. The “Hommes 40 Chevaux 8” are what I mean. It looks as though the continental firms start with post-war vehicles.

 

I can’t say that I understand anything really about 3D printing, but as you offer your locomotives in a number of different scales, I am guessing that you could do the same here. The example above looks absolutely splendid, by the way.

 

Hoping that you decide to proceed with this.

[rue_d_etropal]

1/76 is on option list. actually offering 10 different scales, some railway ones some military modelling ones. can add more.

just working on the version with brake cabin, then the older shorter version of the van.

[Bandicoot]

Brilliant!

[rue_d_etropal]

might have to look around for more WW1 era French wagons, as  suspect there would be interest from those modelling OO9 .

[rue_d_etropal]

after a suggestion on another thread to use google.fr to find more French items, I found this

http://roland.arzul.pagesperso-orange.fr/materiel/wagons/couverts.htm

hopefully should be able to read enough of the measurements to do soe more designs.

[Bandicoot]

Simon,

 

I found these, too, over the weekend.

 Was going to post them in case they were of help.

Attached are a few photos which may be of interest/use. The first of these is copyright the National Library of Scotland. The others are simply out there on the net.

 

The last one was British built, specifically for use in France.

[rue_d_etropal]

thanks, Ihave finished the 3 wagons I was working on

http://www.rue-d-etropal.com/3D-printing/3d_printed_sg-trains3-wagons-fr.htm

 

I have found a lot of drawings online, most will take a bit of work to interpret as they are not that clear, so no rush. I also found a drawing for a British built wagon, possibly the one in photo. It states that certain parts were left off for transport, but again he drawing is not that clear.

I have seen a drawing for something similar to those in second photo, but marked to carry cars. Possile only different at ends.

For final years of WW1 the American built bogie wagons should not be forgotten. I think some are preserved as I have seen photos of some with a standard gauge conversion of a Baldwin I/C loco.

Must not forget standard gauge locos . I have somewhere drawings for the standard gauge version of Crochat i/c loco. It was a simple 2 axle one not bogied like the narrow gauge one.

[Fat Controller]

The 'TP' (Travaux Publiques) bogie vehicles built by the Americans lasted a remarkably long time. Some of the flats were being used to transport long-welded rail into the 1980s, whilst I saw a pair being used as adaptor wagons with TGV Atlantique sets at Montparnasse in the early 1990s. The tank wagons lasted into the late 1980s, latterly in departmental service, and then as Internal Users.

[rue_d_etropal]

I have found my drawings for French standard gauge Crochat locos. There was also a big bogie version. I found a drawing for that as well, luckily one I found when I was doing original reseach for WW1 project.

https://rail.lu/crochat.html

I think there would be more interest in WW1 era French standard gauge. A lot of info about the narrow gauge but little about standard gauge. As much of this military stock survived for many years, it could interest modellers of more recent railways. Some of the Crochat locos ended up in Czechoslovakia, and one preserved there I think.There is also one at Mulhouse museum. Not sure if any of the big bogie ones still exist. 

[Joseph_Pestell]

9 minutes ago, rue_d_etropal said:

I have found my drawings for French standard gauge Crochat locos. There was also a big bogie version. I found a drawing for that as well, luckily one I found when I was doing original reseach for WW1 project.

https://rail.lu/crochat.html

I think there would be more interest in WW1 era French standard gauge. A lot of info about the narrow gauge but little about standard gauge. As much of this military stock survived for many years, it could interest modellers of more recent railways. Some of the Crochat locos ended up in Czechoslovakia, and one preserved there I think.There is also one at Mulhouse museum. Not sure if any of the big bogie ones still exist. 

 

There is (or was) a bogie Crochat at a barracks near Versailles (transport regiment). Went to an open day there about 20 years ago.

 

If you are looking at WW1 narrow-gauge stock, there is a book (published late 90s?) with lots of drawings and photos. I know someone that has a copy.

[rue_d_etropal]

I have plenty of info on narrow gauge including book by C Cenac. I think the bogie Crochat at Versailles is probably the narrow gauge version. That one I think has visited many events for WW1 commemoration. The small standard gauge ones would hav been useful for industrial use after the war, but the big ones, assuming they survived, might have been too big.

Just found that one of the big locos still exists in Austria

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrochat.fr%2Fdocs%2Fhistorique.pdf&psig=AOvVaw2jq2tv053UZXX_Fv2xiRfo&ust=1605009678960000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJiuvYu39ewCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAP

 

more recently

http://www.tvnp.fr/?p=6814

 

Edited November 9, 2020 by rue_d_etropal