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Re: Something different from the wagon works
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:24 pm
by steamnut44
Excellent job! Any chance of making them Bah! No seriously, you have made a nice job of the wagon and filled with sheep it looks even better. I take it you will be having both versions, full and empty?
Geoff
Re: Something different from the wagon works
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:16 pm
by DarwinS
Haha...
Thanks to Stuart Williamson's excellent wagon sounds the sheep do bah!
Re: Something different from the wagon works
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:39 pm
by ianmacmillan
DarwinS wrote:Haha...
Thanks to Stuart Williamson's excellent wagon sounds the sheep do bah!
and after a few miles on exterior view you'll wish they would shut up.
Re: Something different from the wagon works
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:58 pm
by douglee
Hi Ian,
ianmacmillan wrote:and after a few miles on exterior view you'll wish they would shut up.
As, no doubt, would the guard and he would be down wind. Phew!
Ah! The romance of the railways.
Good luck
Doug
Re: Something different from the wagon works
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:42 pm
by BrianB
douglee wrote:Hi Ian,
ianmacmillan wrote:and after a few miles on exterior view you'll wish they would shut up.
As, no doubt, would the guard and he would be down wind. Phew!
Ah! The romance of the railways.
Good luck
Doug
In the steam days of the NSW Govt Railways, especially in the vast rural reaches of western NSW, passenger demands did not justify many dedicated passenger trains, so it was an everyday practise to either use a bogie brakevan at the end of all goods trains (all NSWGR bogie brakevans had a single passenger compartment seating up to 10 2nd class passengers) or attach a bogie passenger car between the goods wagons and the brakevan. One of the principal traffics in western NSW was the transport of cattle and sheep - and it was always a problem for passengers being hauled along on hot days with the windows open for ventilation, and running the whole trip through a distinct 'aromatic aura'. It was just one of those things that the rural passenger had to content with on their daily journeys.
Regards, Brian
Re: Something different from the wagon works
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:25 am
by michaelhendle
Hi,
I can think of one train which is worse than a live stock train full of animals,these were run by South African Railways and that is a train of open wagon full of manuare,when I was at Pinetown Yard we had up to 2 trains a week and boy did they smell especialy in summer with a temp of 90F.
SAR used Brake Vans with up to 5 Passenger Compartments 1 Class 2 Class and 3 Class,in those days 3rd class was used for non whites,most branch trains would have used the Guards Vans,