Socially-Distanced Challenge: ex-NER Lowmac
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:48 pm
I'm going to be building this PMK/Connoiseur Models Lowmac. Ten were built by the NER between 1913 and 1922, to Diagram A2. Under the LNER, they were known as Mac-L. All of them lasted into British Railways days.
These castings are provided:
Nice to see a couple of spares are provided - don't often see that. The buffers will eventually be sprung, and the axlebox/springs might benefit from a bit of work. I don't know what the castings at the top of this picture are! - no mention is made of them in the (somewhat brief) instructions. My best guess so far is that those at top left are for mounting tension lock couplings (people do some strange things) although I can't see how they would fit even if I wanted to do this. I wondered whether those at top right might be supports for end jacks (the vertical 'legs' are at track spacing), but I don't believe these wagons had them. Perhaps they're just extraneous?
These castings are provided:
Nice to see a couple of spares are provided - don't often see that. The buffers will eventually be sprung, and the axlebox/springs might benefit from a bit of work. I don't know what the castings at the top of this picture are! - no mention is made of them in the (somewhat brief) instructions. My best guess so far is that those at top left are for mounting tension lock couplings (people do some strange things) although I can't see how they would fit even if I wanted to do this. I wondered whether those at top right might be supports for end jacks (the vertical 'legs' are at track spacing), but I don't believe these wagons had them. Perhaps they're just extraneous?