WagonWorks - Bogey Good Stock finished...

Its nice when projects are finished, the trio of bogey Lynton & Barnstaple style stock now ready for service..

The existing rolling stock shelves are nearly full,  room for a couple of smaller wagons; or possiblly add another shelf ?

Garage Layout - Refurbishing the Signals

 In from the garage, the signals (these are manually operated).  They needed a bit of TLC, so in for repairs and a new coat of paint..

looking good with the signal posts in white....

Back out on the garage layout...

WagonWorks - starting on the new arrivals...

The Brake van gets new under frame detail and bogie wheel sets...

repair to the guards ducket started....

The goods van gets new bogie wheel sets...

The wagon works job sheet for the two wagons....

WagonWorks - Bogey Flat Car ....

 The last build was a kit of a Lynton & Barnstaple  (L&B) bogey goods open, also the L&B had a couple of bogey flat cars, see bottom drawing in the diagram below.

Reference drawing from 'A Portrait of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway' by Chris Leigh  (p91).

I'm going to convert an LGB bogey flat car, shown below...

As I wanted the spacing of the 'uprights' as per the prototype; a bit of cutting and filing was done to the sides and the ends...

The side under frame gets a cosmetic surface of thin plasticard ..........

The 'uprights' now in their new positions.......

Added the holders for the uprights....

added suitable ends ....

bogie wheel sets added with suitable couplings and a visit to the paint shop, all done....

I'll add some transfers for the load in tons and tare weight later.

More for the Wagon Works....

After finding a nice book on the Lynton & Barnstaple railway with a list of wagon types with drawings;  I suffered an attack of wagon-itis 😃 and bought a couple more bogey wagons from Ebay....

New running gear needed and some small repairs and paint work tidy also to do.

Making up a battery pack...

 My Playmobil based RC locos, use a 4 x AA battery pack.  I have a proper one, but thought it would be good to have a spare one with another set of batteries in it; so if the batteries run down during an operating session I can put the spare in and carry on..

I used a standard 4 x AA battery holder fwhich its into the loco as needed with the +/- contacts pressing against the loco ones. To stop it falling out some small spacers 'dots' are fitted; to remove it a small self adhesive wall hook is fixed to the other end. I have to paint the hook black.

RC Diesel (4) - Finally done...

I couldn't get the lights to work at all with the new speed controller; the wiring setup for it was not compatible with what was in situ and also one of the two light LEDs was faulty. So I opted to forego having working lighting (I know when I'm beaten 😭).

So on with finishing off....I repainted and varnished the loco body, then replaced the faulty on/off slider switch..

In the loco I made a couple of cradles to hold the speed controller and receiver, now everything is relatively neat and tidy....

Re-assembled and ready for its first run-test...

Engineering inspection first....

Running with the sound on...

I am so pleased to get to the finishing point of getting the new RC electronics working and the loco running 😀

Definitely a good learning project about how to put battery RC stuff in a loco.

I'm sure I'll do a few tweaks, perhaps a little bit more battery power for running to get a bit more speed and pulling power.