Sunny Sunday (15) - mixed train again...

Today ran with a RC battery loco (recent rain - too lazy to clean the track 😀 ), plus a couple of coaches and some goods wagons/vans.

Got some still photos, then it came over all cloudy the little train in motion ....

Project Railbus (3) ....

A little bit of progress this week...

The roof had a missing section, so its been filled in... 

The top of the roof has had some cosmetic lengths of thin plasticard added on the sides to improve the look...

The revised scheme for the floor is to have the two cabs using the floor and control panels from the Sylvanian families tram;  the centre area will be built up to cover the top of the chassis with seats on top.

Side skirts added ....

not much I can do till I decide how to do the sides and seating. I may get a suitable cheap coach and chop it up as needed.

Project Railbus (2) Second Bash ....and test run

chassis fitted to the base...

level check - spot on !

 made up the main structure of the roof... inside

outside...

I also cut out a hole in the floor so I can fit it in....

quick assembly....

and out to the garage layout for a quick test run.....

Project Railbus (1) Getting Started....

Not a sunny Sunday today,  so I decided to make a start on my Railbus project....

The 0-4-0 chassis removed from the Diesel loco (the loco body has gone into the spares box).

The Sylvanian families tram, is held together with screws. So taken apart into three sections - upper side panels, roof and base with lower panels

I chopped the sides to just have the cab ends, also removed the lower side panels from the base...

So now I have three main parts to work on. The base (which will have the chassis attached), the floor with control consoles & seats,  the roof with cab ends.  

I marked out on the underside of the base, the hole through which the chassis is going to fit through...

I drilled holes along the 'cut line' and then cut through any connected bits. The edges of the hole were then filed smooth.  The chassis has had some parts narrowed by about 10mm so it will fit nicely inside.

The proposed plan of attack is:

• fix the chassis to the base and do a test run.
• make the roof section up
• fit the flooring round the chassis, add some seats
• build the sides

along with lots of bodges and twiddly bits 😀

Next project - Railbus

 The starting point will be Sylvanian families tram, picked up for £5 in a local charity shop.  Comes with control consoles and a couple of seats (spare seats are available online).

The cab ends are suitable, but the sides not so....

It will have some running gear using a chassis with 25mm diameter wheels off an old Marklin(LGB) toy train diesel which cost me ~£60 from Ebay.

Rolling Stock shelf tidy...

 I picked up some more cheap 45mm track (guage 1), from a gift shop near Poole Quay which has a model railways and diecast cars section.

The two pieces of track are just the right length for the rolling stock shelf...

The Lynton&Barnstaple bogey rolling stock on the track, looks neater...

Sunny Sunday (14) - mixed train...

A new wagon finshed off today; made from a snap together kit by Hartland Loco Works. Its a convertor wagon with Accucraft chopper coupling at one end and LGB coupling at the other.

 Another lovely sunny Sunday - a short mixed train run today....