I bought three hopper wagons from the 009 sales at Water Orton yesterday.
They are reasonably heavy suggesting they are made from metal and have microtrains trucks and couplings.
Anyone know if they are kit built or something someone has scratchbuilt?
Thanks in advance
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Could they be resin? If so, I THINK they are Railway Recollections Gilpin Tram ore cars.
Jeff S.
Jeff, I 've had some info on other forums.
"It's a Gilpin Tramway car. Given that it uses wrong modern trucks and it doesn't look like any of the known models,I suspect it's scratch built.
They have been done by Grandt Line in On2 and I think in HO too in plastic. There is a resin kit by railway-recollections - http://www.railway-r...com/gilpin.htmland someone did a laser cut kit for them a couple of years ago. I do HOn30 trucks for them.
Tom"
"The couplings make me think they are probably from Dave Grassing's Deer Creek Railway.
I have recently purchased a couple of his wagons from the Sales stand."
Quote from: cnw6847 on August 15, 2016, 21:49
Jeff, I 've had some info on other forums.
"It's a Gilpin Tramway car. Given that it uses wrong modern trucks and it doesn't look like any of the known models,I suspect it's scratch built.
They have been done by Grandt Line in On2 and I think in HO too in plastic. There is a resin kit by railway-recollections - http://www.railway-r...com/gilpin.htmland someone did a laser cut kit for them a couple of years ago. I do HOn30 trucks for them.
Tom"
"The couplings make me think they are probably from Dave Grassing's Deer Creek Railway.
I have recently purchased a couple of his wagons from the Sales stand."
My local 009 group had a meeting today where we discussed this and apparently they are from one of Dave Grassing's layouts.
Thank you for the confirmation Danny.
I shall be keeping as they are for my future project.