LarryG
Western Thunderer
Some forum members will be aware I have been building LMS and GWR carriages in readiness for Ruabon, which is to be my next layout project. The Midland D1284 brake third was the first corridor coach I chose to etch back in 2005. The coach seen below was a completely new re-tool done in 2013 by my friend John Fozard shortly before his death. Quite simply, I wanted one on my layout in his memory.
The MR D1284 was the true progenitor of the LMS Period I coach with its deep trussrods supporting two battery boxes. The last vehicle was built under LMS auspices in 1924. At least one received BR post-1956 lined maroon.
Initially I mounted it on my own whitemetal bogies. Ignore the roof which is mounted the wrong way round....
Then yesterday I found a box of Shapeways LMS bogies with NEM sockets that I had purchased from Bill Bedford some years ago. This discovery allows me to fit Kadee couplings to brake end coaches so that they will couple to the locos....
The only downside is the bogies are too frail to drill out to take etched stepboards...
The MR D1284 was the true progenitor of the LMS Period I coach with its deep trussrods supporting two battery boxes. The last vehicle was built under LMS auspices in 1924. At least one received BR post-1956 lined maroon.
Initially I mounted it on my own whitemetal bogies. Ignore the roof which is mounted the wrong way round....
Then yesterday I found a box of Shapeways LMS bogies with NEM sockets that I had purchased from Bill Bedford some years ago. This discovery allows me to fit Kadee couplings to brake end coaches so that they will couple to the locos....
The only downside is the bogies are too frail to drill out to take etched stepboards...
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