I've decided to give my 3D modelling legs a stretch, and see if I can create a railway crane for 3D printing, but I need some help...

Would anyone happen to have, or know where to get, some images and/or drawings of this type of crane?



It's a Cowans Sheldon 30 Ton, 10 wheeled crane. It's one of two cranes, numbered 7869, and 7870, built for the War Department in 1942. This one is in a Austrian railway musume,

I read on a different forum that this crane is included in Peter Tatlow's Railway Breakdown Cranes: The Story of Steam Breakdown Cranes on the Railways of Britain, Volume 1, but I wanted to make sure before I spent 70aud on a book that might not even have what I need. So if anyone does have that book, could they verify that it does have it? Apparently it's on page 91.

Nice photo with a lot of details here:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/marchwood_military_railway/index1.shtml

Jan

You might find some useful photos here;

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=cranes

Click on each image to open a page on that subject.

Martyn

See the 'On Track Plant' section of http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html for some basic drawings of BR(W) Cranes.

Mike

Quote from: maridunian on April 10, 2022, 08:45:30 AM
See the 'On Track Plant' section of http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html for some basic drawings of BR(W) Cranes.

Mike

It's got the crane! It's exact measurements! This is the most perfect answer I could've ever gotten!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

This is the complete jackpot!

You're welcome! This site is a very useful resource. The BR drawings are not always precise, as they were intended for people operating trains, but the measurements will be.

Mike

Quote from: mca0004 on April 10, 2022, 09:56:53 AM

Quote from: maridunian on April 10, 2022, 08:45:30 AM
See the 'On Track Plant' section of http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html for some basic drawings of BR(W) Cranes.

Mike

It's got the crane! It's exact measurements! This is the most perfect answer I could've ever gotten!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

This is the complete jackpot!

Can we take it that you quite like this forum?

Quote from: Bob G on April 10, 2022, 05:44:29 PM
Can we take it that you quite like this forum?

This is one of the only places I can talk about model trains with like minded people. At my club, everyone's either to focused on running their own trains or have no interest in British stuff.

Everyone here is incredibly friendly and not judgemental. I know and been to a few places where people will, for a lack of a better word, interrogate me about my interest in running Thomas the Tank Engine. Or they'll be way to intense with running their trains perfectly realistic.

And as we have just seen with this topic; there are many very helpful people here. As a 3D artist by trade, getting those measurements, as well as the close up of the jib's gearing, is such an amazing thing to get! Without them, I'd would have just had to guess.

All in all, great forum!