Garry's Mallets and railcars seen at Expong

[tedp]

At Expong I met my old friend Garry Whiting again, who brought a box full of his recently completed scratchbuilt Mallet locomotives, and a few 3D printed railcars.

For the Mallets, Garry used a simple trick that may serve others contemplating a simple Mallet model. Garry has used Kato chassis in large numbers, some of which came in the steam train package where the steam loco is pushed along by a powered coach. The 4 wheel steam chassis is very free-running and lends itself admirably to model the front unit of a Mallet. For the rear unit he uses the well known Fleischmann 7000 chassis, with slightly larger wheels although this doesn't show in practice. The Fleischmann unit can be heavily ballasted and will haul almost anything you put behind it.

Here is an example, in the yellow livery found on some of the Ducroo & Brauns survivors in the Indonesian sugar plantations:



Next are two differently styled Colonial locomotives, fitted with cowcatchers: 





The next one, in green livery, almost yells 'Hunslet' at you:



Finally, here is one in which I think Garry described as French style, in red:



Garry also brought a few railcars made from David Hurst Model Engine Works 3D prints. There were two Walker style railcars (West Clare, Donegal, Isle of Man) and a steam railcar, all powered by the ubiquitous Kato tram chassis:



This double-ender has one unit powered:



And finally, the steam railcar and trailer:

[ADanti]

Very nice models! only the railcars are 3D printed? or the steam engines as well?

[Jeff Schumaker]

Very nice indeed. I particularly like the steam railcar.

Jeff S.

[tedp]

Very nice models! only the railcars are 3D printed? or the steam engines as well?

The steam locomotives are scratchbuilt from plastic sheet.

[Chris Ford]

Love the steam railcar.

[garrywhiting]

Love the steam railcar.

Glad you like it ---- and a big thank you for letting us hi-jack Orne at ExpoNG for the photo session, much appreciated.

Garry

[Chris Ford]

I'm still repairing the bridge....

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Here are the close-ups I made when we sat at lunch and Garry unpacked his boxes on the table.

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And the final photos made on Chris Ford's layout 'Orne'. Before a railcar jammed under the bridge...  ;D

[Mark Shenstone]

I really like the Irish style rail cars, they've come up really well.

[Stefan Krebs]

Of course you could use one Fleischmann, and one Minitrix engine. Both made/ make models of the same (German) prototype, Fleischmann ALWAYS with tender-drive, i.e. engine unpowered, Mintrix overwhelmingly with engine-drive. ;)

Noting that under 800mm track gauge inside chassis frames on mallets is VERY rare, and even at metre gauge it is not the majority; - and their is a technical reason for that.

Very nice models anyway, I agree.


Just a thought
Waldschrat