Monday, October 14, 2013

On30 Four Wheel Flatcar

While sampling a new-to-me bourbon (Breaking & Entering brand, very good!), I got pretty drunk and ended up ordering one of Mr. Toma's Beautiful new On30 Keelung Coal Co. 3.5ton 0-4-0 Well Tank Engines. This morning I realized just how small a 3.5ton engine really is and set to building a little four-wheel car for it to pull around.


It's only about four feet wide by seven feet long. The journal boxes are cut from a Titchy archbar truck with Kadee HO 28" wheelsets, which works out to about 14 inches in O scale, the rest is the usual Brass bits and Grandt Line NBWs.  Coupling will be simple link & pin, chains or drawbars and will be installed later.

So much for 'concentrating' on one 'scale' or 'gauge', I seem to be back too sampling whatever I find out there regardless if it fits in any way with what I already have in the works...  I'm pretty okay with that.

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