Greetings,
I have been quite for a while because I have been reading the pair of books on the Ffestiniog Railway by J.I.C. Boyd and have enjoyed them both. I think that I have decided on modeling the Ffestiniog Railway for several reasons, the first: is that it had a huge influence on the narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Railway, second: it was a busy railroad which means a lot trains moving, third: it had several places where it interchanged with standard gauge railroads, not that others did not and last but not least the most important I LIKE IT! ;D
I think the first thing that I am going to try and model is Minffordd "these Welsh spellings are playing h**l with my American spell checker". Minffordd gives me several things, a yard to switch (shunt), both standard gauge and narrow gauge and place to show what made this railway what it was built for, the moving of slate.
Now on to the question that I thought about when I started this little novel, who makes the best kits for the Bug Boxes? It does not matter weather they are brass, plastic or resin, I want to try some of each kind. So recommend away.
Thanks in advance,
Andre Anderson
Portland Oregon USA
Look in the Parkside Dundas website for ARB Models (Veitch) and also look in the Worsley Works website. Both etched brass but different in construction style as one is more basic. The Veitch kit is complete with wheels and axle bearings. The Worsley Works kits are 'scratch-aid' kits and the wheels need to sourced from elsewhere such as Parkside Dundas as well as the couplings.
Roger
GEM make white metal kits of bug boxes, which now come with etched running gear as the older kits had 'orrible wm thingies that needed a Double Fairlie to pull just one. You still might be better off with an 'n' gauge underframe though.
Parkside Dundas stock both GEM and 'n' underframes.
Quote from: Krizzy on December 18, 2014, 21:51
Look in the Parkside Dundas website for ARB Models (Veitch) and also look in the Worsley Works website. Both etched brass but different in construction style as one is more basic. The Veitch kit is complete with wheels and axle bearings. The Worsley Works kits are 'scratch-aid' kits and the wheels need to sourced from elsewhere such as Parkside Dundas as well as the couplings.
Roger
Minor correction if I may Roger - Worsley Works also sell wheels for their kits - see http://www.worsleyworks.co.uk/NG/NG_Wheels.htm.
As to couplings Andre might I suggest that it may be easier for you to go down the route of using Kadees / Microtrain couplers as these are probably more easily available in the US as against using the Greenwich type which you'll probably need to import from the UK and therefore will have higher postage and also import duties.
Minffordd will be a challenge in 009 but quite possible.
The yard site including the FR mainline in total in 00 scale would measure 3.5m (11
The GEM Bug Box kits are a perfect fit onto the Peco 10' steel brake chassis. The bottom of the floor sits on the brake footboard and places the body at about the right height from the rail. Years ago I built five. They run beautifully well.