I am looking for a diesel railcar such as used in the late 1950's and early 60's by GWR. I think a nickname for these was the "flying banana".
Here is an example in Wikipedia from Ben Brooksbank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_railcars#/media/File:Tenbury_Wells_Station,_with_ex-Great_Western_Diesel_railcar_geograph-2389817-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
Naturally, since this IS an N-Gauge forum, I mean in N-gauge. I have only seen Graham Farish models of these for sale on e-pay(you know who I mean) and none currently, just a shell. Did any other manufacturer produce these in N-gauge?
Langley do/did kits for an Express Parcels version and a two car passenger version - however, both require a Farish railcar chassis.
I had the Langley twin car kit back in the late 70s when it took a cheap LifeLike chassis which was dreadful. Mine ended up with a stretched Minitrix Warship chassis. Heavy whitemetal lumps but with the decent chassis it ran well enough.
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B H E did a 3D printed body of the early streamlined Rail Car and the Twin units but I dont think they have any left now and now `Ray has passed away his sons are struggling to keep the business going .
Bob
The Farish one is very good. If you wait patiently one will turn up as plenty were made. You could try the big secondhand people line Anoraks anonymous or Rails. Try to get one with a flywheel as these are superb runners. The early ones without flywheel were not so good.
How about this one a few items down for £75
https://clarkrailworks.com/collections/n-gauge/british
@Maurice I suppose as you're US based they'll not turn up often (if at all) on your native ebay so you will have to look further afield.
Quote from: Nbodger on September 19, 2024, 07:29:20 PMHow about this one a few items down for £75
https://clarkrailworks.com/collections/n-gauge/british
3rd row down and far right. :goggleeyes:
I'm sitting on a goldmine!! ;)
Shapeways did eight or more variants with valanced and unvalanced bogies. Not sure who the designer was but the ones I have were very accurate and could be mounted on Tomix chassis.
They were on Shapeways by a chap called Ivan ,
Bob
Quote from: Snowwolflair on September 19, 2024, 11:03:07 PMShapeways did eight or more variants with valanced and unvalanced bogies. Not sure who the designer was but the ones I have were very accurate and could be mounted on Tomix chassis.
I can't remember the reference number but the Tomix chassis fits well and runs very well indeed. This is an early Farish rail car. I got rid of the old chassis which had many issues and dropped a Tomix one in.
I have a Farish one with a flywheel, bought from
@dannyboy of this parish. Lovely runner.
Farish, parish.... maybe I should start writing limericks! :D
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There was an old man from afar,
Who bought himself a railcar,
It was made by Graham Farish,
In the old Poole parish,
Supplied by dannyboy from another afar.
Best I could do in a couple of minutes. :)
I'd suggest not giving up your day job but, as far as I know, you haven't got one so stick to the 'Groaners' maybe :hmmm:
:laughabovepost: :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: dannyboy on September 20, 2024, 10:06:53 AMThere was an old man from afar,
Who bought himself a railcar,
...
My mind immediately expected the 2nd line to be
"Who bought himself a Grafar"
:)
I actually have two 3d prints that i bought a long time ago. Both seemed to have gone slightly wrong and not that my painting skill were bad, but I couldn't get it right without it going wrong.
First up the B H Enterprises version with the tomytec chassis underneath. I damaged the window slightly but it's not too obvious. See if you can spot which one it is? But it is not too obvious when you stand away from it. This would be one of the first batch of 4.
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Second is one that I bought secondhand, it is the parcel version so No.17. It is slightly larger than the BH one and I never bought a chassis for this. It also had a broken buffer that I planned to fix.
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The B H version does not like peco 1st radius bends so I have no use for these. Right now I don't know what to do with them.
Regards
Rob.
Thank you for all the advice and information. I decided to order the model from Clark's Railworks. Being in the United States, I didn't know of Clark's. I had previously shopped thru Hatton's online website, Rails of Sheffield, Cheltenham Model Center, Harburn Hobbies and direct from Peco. For the current time, I think I have pretty much all I need for my British layout, so I can give my wallet a rest. Now to wait impatiently for the model to cross the ocean and make it's way to me. Cheers!