This is not really an active project, as I completed it over the winter of 2018-19, but I like to think of it as an example of the "needs must" approach to model engineering by a hobbyist (and I am about as "hobbyist" as they come, having the benefit of neither technical training nor practical instruction), incorporating as it does "found" and adapted materials as well as improvised techniques, and therefore worth posting here.
It all started when my local model engineering club sold its club-owned railway riding car, leaving me without something to tow around behind my 3.5" gauge Rob Roy locomotive. I found a construction article for something suitable in a 1945 article from "The Model Craftsman" magazine which was on the website of the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers website, and got to work.
Upon completing the riding car I thanked the president of IBLS for publishing the plans. He then persuaded me to talk about the build on the same page where he had published the initial article.
And so, after this lengthy exordium, here it is:
ibls.org
I hope that this will be of interest to someone out there.
It all started when my local model engineering club sold its club-owned railway riding car, leaving me without something to tow around behind my 3.5" gauge Rob Roy locomotive. I found a construction article for something suitable in a 1945 article from "The Model Craftsman" magazine which was on the website of the International Brotherhood of Live Steamers website, and got to work.
Upon completing the riding car I thanked the president of IBLS for publishing the plans. He then persuaded me to talk about the build on the same page where he had published the initial article.
And so, after this lengthy exordium, here it is:
3-1/2 Inch Gauge Flat Car - IBLS
I hope that this will be of interest to someone out there.
