The rollingstock of narrow gauge colonial railways can be quite odd at times, with a tendency to make-do and come up with unusual combinations.
I just happen to have a large collection of wagon and carriage diagrams (official scale drawings giving an overview of a design) for the 3'6" gauge railways of Queensland Australia.
So here's a little thread of some fun or odd ones:
We'll start simple.
If you've got a lot of class H open wagons and need more class C covered wagons (vans) what do you do? Naturally you just build the rest of the van body on top and call it the class CH.
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Of course, if you also need more brake vans, you can always tack a guards compartment on and call it the class CHB.
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Meanwhile, if you're not sure if you need a goods wagon or a passenger carriage, you can always just make a convertible. After all, if you build a passenger carriage without chairs it'll work as a goods wagon, right?
I guess the passengers can always sit on whatever crates and boxes are inside.
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Also here's an insulated wagon specifically for carrying cheese. Just cheese. You're not allowed to put anything else in it, I guess. Or maybe someone just looked at the class AB insulated wagon and wanted an excuse to have a class ABC; C for cheese!
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A wagon for elephants. Not a very common load though, so apparently only one was ever built: the class EIC elephant wagon.
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If you need to carry pigs, what you do is you take an open wagon and put a roof on it to stop the pigs flying away. The class FP wagon:
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So a train of cattle wagons needs a guard/brake van on the back right?
Never mind, we'll just build the guard's compartment onto the back of a class K cattle wagon, and call it the class KB.
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While we're at it, I suppose we could also add a compartment for the drovers (cowboys?) to travel in as well, and call it the class KKB.
Rumour has it the smell was so bad, that the drovers preferred to find other accommodations.
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I guess if you're scrapping all your old steam loco's, you might as well couple some of the tenders together and use them to carry molasses.
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Oh, and of course there's also a sheep wagon with built-in guard and drover compartments: the class NB.
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While we're tacking brake/guard compartments onto things, I suppose we might as well tack one onto a class V coal hopper: the class VB coal brake. I have no idea why there appears to be part of an open wagon bolted on the front, perhaps just because "why not?"
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@TicklishHoneyBee what gauge did these run on? How hard would it be to model these for 9mm gauge rails and 1:87 scale ?
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