And now for something completely different… Since I have all this newfound outdoor space, I decided that I wanted to expand my coal mine complex. One of the things I want to do is a minecar tramway. In 1/24 O-gauge is right near 30", absolutely perfect for a little tramway. SM32 (16mm/ft scale, 32mm gauge) is fairly popular in England, but the stuff is pretty scarce over here. A coon’s age ago I bought my oldest daughter an obscure product from the German company Faller. They called it the " ‘e’-train " It was a sort of cheap and cheesy 2 rail O-scale mechanism stuffed under a 1/25 or so superstructure. The thing looked sort of like a 6 wheeled Stainz that shrunk in the wash…
She ran it under the Christmas tree one year then put it in a box, but so far has resisted all my efforts to swipe it back. – What my daughter didn’t know is that all this time I’ve had a second locomotive hidden away ‘just in case’… This one was fair game for a bash. Mods so far: Chop off those German domes, shorten the chimney, re-work the cab, extend the side tanks…
[/IMG] more pix later
