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Did many 4 wheel timber wagons run in Ireland? If anybody had links to photos I would be grateful. Below is a link to a googled photo that may have been Irish but I'm not so sure. Any info would be welcome. Page 47 of "Rails Through The West" depicts a train of 4 wheel timber wagons departing Galway behind 084 in 1999. They might make an interesting model due to their shorter length, looking more realistic on typical layout radius curves than 62ft bogie wagons.

Photo (C) Marra Man (picasso site) http://picssr.com/tags/timberwagon/page3

 

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29 minutes ago, Noel said:

Did many 4 wheel timber wagons run in Ireland? If anybody had links to photos I would be grateful. Below is a link to a googled photo that may have been Irish but I'm not so sure. Any info would be welcome. Page 47 of "Rails Through The West" depicts a train of 4 wheel timber wagons departing Galway behind 084 in 1999. They might make an interesting model due to their shorter length, looking more realistic on typical layout radius curves than 62ft bogie wagons.

Photo (C) Marra Man (picasso site) http://picssr.com/tags/timberwagon/page3

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This is a BR OTA wagon. 

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25 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

AFAIK the 20’ timber ran for a while ( same chassis as the double beet etc) and they then switched up to the 62’

Thank BK. Any idea about the timber wagons on page 47 of JB & BC's book? They seem longer that 20ft but a lot shorter than 62ft.

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The one in the photo is British 

The wagon ends and side stanchions on the  Irish wagons were removable and were simply transferred to the 62ft versions. 

42 ft bogies flats were also considered. Again ends and sides were compatible with being transferred to the 62ft flats. 

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4 minutes ago, waffles said:

The one in the photo is British 

Thanks as confirmed by Fran, but any idea about the photo on page 47 of 'Rails Through the West'?

The photo caption reads ". . . heads a train of 23 four-wheeled timber trucks . . ."

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Same as yourself, never knew they existed till I stumble across that on youtube about 4 years ago. Then I tried find out when they were scrapped and the 62fts took over through IRRS journals. It's amazing what happens when you're looking for something, then stumble across some else and go off researching a different tangent than the first topic you had in mind while forgetting all about in the first place.

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12 minutes ago, Railer said:

It's amazing what happens when you're looking for something, then stumble across some else and go off researching a different tangent than the first topic you had in mind while forgetting all about in the first place.

Sounds like you've been spying on our Board Meetings :P ...

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This was the fab photo from page 47 of 'Rails Though The West' that alerted me to these two axle timber wagons. A long rake of these might look better than fewer long 62ft wagons overhanging typical layout curves. They don't look too difficult to scratch build in plastic, and might fit on top of a Dapol RTR chassis body which costs €7ea inc wheels and couplings. Will investigate same over the next few months. They look fab running in railers youtube clip.

Thanks to JB for photo permission - (C) Jonathan Beaumont and Barry CarseTimberWagon_FourWheel_HR.thumb.jpg.7e9ab5a6ee0be378835edcab5a6a6e66.jpg

 

Interesting Youtube clip below of 2 axle timber wagons posted earlier above by @Railer.

 

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1 hour ago, Noel said:

PS: 084 and 218 above are painted in two quite different shades of orange/tan.

They look it, yes. The 201s always seemed a slight shade lighter, but I never compared them up close.

The difference is probably exaggerated a bit in the photo, as 084 is straight out of the paint pot, while 218 is a bit worn.

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1 minute ago, jhb171achill said:

They look it, yes. The 201s always seemed a slight shade lighter, but I never compared them up close.

The difference is probably exaggerated a bit in the photo, as 084 is straight out of the paint pot, while 218 is a bit worn.

Yes one has to be careful of optical illusions when checking colours, so with that photo one has to compare the colour on the sides of the loco bodies away from reflection and adjacent strong colours (e.g. red panel on front 084 and yellow on 118). 084 has more red in the mix, 118 has more yellow. Oh for 1960s tan. :) 

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Would it a good bet that the best ends of the 4 wheel flats were grafted on to the 62 foot chassis - and were these waggons around before and the timber waggons are a recycling project at its best -?

The 4 wheel version is available on shapeways thanks to a clever person for that- name escapes. I was wondering if they could be grafted on to ??  I did wonder about a BR Mk1coach  chassis as I have a few in a box..  https://www.shapeways.com/product/MAE7YYF3J/cie-2-axle-timber-wagon-oo-scale- as already noted

If folk wanted a ready to plonk timber load these are avail able as a cast plaster item for the BR OTA

   http://tencommandmentsmodels.co.uk/product/logs-load-ota-wagon-twin-pack/  , £7 a pop.

Robert 

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Hi Guys

Here are a few photos of an OTA going to bogie'd Irish timber wagons for the Greystones Layout

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A mould is made to do the uprights in white metal, there will be seven of them with plastic additional beams, ladders n stuff

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Jig for making the batch of logs from silver birch twigs from the garden, held together with PVA and one will have ballast weight in it

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Y25 bogie with CNC cut (i can say that now:D) brass NEM 362 pocket soldered up and ready to epoxy to bogie

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Not finding much time to finish these, making 3 and getting there slowly.....

Looking back at it, the OTA wagon is stripped down so much its nearly worth considering starting from scratch, we are using these because the 3 of them will fit in the station siding and not obstruct the main line- we started with them, we'll keep going.....

Eoin

 

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On 4/13/2018 at 7:33 AM, Robert Shrives said:

Would it a good bet that the best ends of the 4 wheel flats were grafted on to the 62 foot chassis - and were these waggons around before and the timber waggons are a recycling project at its best -?

 

Robert 

The 62'6" air braked wagons were converted to carry timber traffic. These wagons were used to carry container traffic on the Cork & Galway mail trains and became surplus to requirements for container traffic after mail traffic ceased in 1993-4.  There was also a risk of of exceeding the axle load if 3X20' containers with a heavy product such as butter or milk powder were loaded on these wagons.

The 62'6" wagons were in use in timber traffic by 1996 for traffic from the West of Ireland to Waterford & possibly Clonmel plants

The 4 wheel wagons were a later conversion as timber traffic built up to serve the particle board plants at Bell View & Clonmel. 

The closure of the Ashai plant in Ballina and failure of Bell Lines in 2007 lead to a substantial drop in container traffic, that would have made most of the 4w flats surplus to requirements for container traffic.

Timber traffic ceased completely around 2002-3 when IE suddenly discovered that it was un-profitable,  traffic resumed from the west to Waterford when a new contract was negotiated with Coillte, though after 20 years IE & Coillte have not sorted out a rail connection to the log yard at the Waterford Plant, though I suppose it keeps the local hauliers happy

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John ,

Thanks for information very interesting. The reverse of my simple thoughts - but it does still mean that if the shapeways body only print for the 4 wheel is used then it can be grafted on to a 62`6" chassis and more cradles created.  I guess an easy way to make the chassis is to cut and shunt the longer chassis from Nile and add a straps box.  Unless Nile beats us all too it and makes a wonderful wagon !

Robert  

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Thanks to @BosKonay's 3D link I decided to try a two axle timber wagon.  Started on the bench today. I recycled and part cannibalised an old Triang chassis I had since childhood. If I like the look of it when I'm finished might try scratch building a few more bodies using this as a measurement template.

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DIY NEM 362 pockets fitted so I can use Kadee or TLCs in the future.

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24 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

That came out great Noel. I made a half dozen a few years back and it’s a nice quick job! 

Thanks Stephen. Yes it only took about 45mins to get to that stage, mostly filing and sanding all the crude seams off the old Tri-ang chassis, and then build up the NEM pockets. I tried all the gearbox Kadee's I had, but I didn't have 142 (medium overset) which might have screwed nicely on to the chassis without any spacers needed, so I went the NEM route and plugged in a no 18, and changed the plastic white rimmed wheels for metal ones.

What donor chassis did you use for yours?

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11 hours ago, Robert Shrives said:

In real life was the donor chassis from the same family of wagons that gave wheels to the double beets ?

I thought the beets were 12' wheelbase Mk.1 flats and the timbers were 14' wheelbase Mk.2 flats, but someone could well correct me.

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Work continues on a sample two axle timber wagon. Painted and weathered, just decals, vacuum pipes and white tips left to do. Happy with the way the kadee worked out on the ancient 1972 Tri-ang wagon chassis - now thats recycling.

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May try and copy this body with a few pasticard repeats. I've loads more old Tri-ang wagons for chassis donors.

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Was just realising what a great resource the folks on this forum are. I never new such a wagon existed until I re-read @jhb171achill's book, posted a question on this thread only last week, got fab information, a magical machine in a foreign land printed a plastic body shell, a parcel flew by air to Ireland, a postman delivered it in a little green van, I did a little kit bashing and painting, and 8 days later I'm running a model of the wagon in question. Thanks again chaps.

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