Re-wheeling Lilliput 4 wheel Carriages with Kato Bogies.
My Glen Ogle layout is basically an area of Scotland that I find very attractive, that happens to have an abandoned railway line, with a very scenic viaduct running through it, which I decided to model as a working diorama, and that
It looks all right to me, Brian. One question though - are you happy with the distance between vehicles? It seems a little short, judging the position of the bogies.
If not, invest in a few extra N gauge couplers and cut the claw off the ones on the bogies, leaving the flat face. Then superglue another coupler, minus its stem, to the face of the original. That will gain you a few mm.
Looks OK. Should run well on those Kato Bogies. The flat base is kind of different, I would make new mounting posts from plastic tube, but that's just my approach.
Will you be repainting these coaches?
Mal.
Addendum to the above post.
( Since I wrote this little epistle, I was contacted by Ted Polet, pointing out that I might have fixed the bogie pivot points a little too far in from the coach ends. Acknowledging Ted's expertise, I did another test of the coupled coaches, and found that on the straight, which is where I had tested them at first, the supplied and fixed ELC couplings will couple together ok, but on a bend, especially the 9" Set track curves I had used for the return loops at each end of the layout, the roof overhang on the square ended carriages touched and derailed the carriages, the carriages that have the rounded corners do pass one another, but it is close.
Thank you Ted.
So I would recommend that anyone doing this conversion, reduces the length of pivot hole to new floor end from 15 to 14mm, and a more certain way to make sure the ELC couplings give sufficient distance between coaches, is to use the distance between the old coupling pivot holes, (69mm) as the centres for the new bogies, this way, the new floor and existing floor holes will align and the plastic rivet will pass through both .
Sorry if anyone has all ready had a go and found this is a problem.)
Regards,
BrianT.
I am not convinced that this is a good way to fit bogies to these vehicles as the ride-height may be significantly increased.
Have you compared the bogie stock to the unaltered vehicles?
If it works for you on your layout then full marks for the simple solution, but it may not suit those with restricted clearances and may appear odd combined with other stock.