MOC: Train Scrapwagon

[SeaKing61]

This is a MOC I uploaded to Bricklink a while ago. It's a simple Scrapwagon using the standard split-level train base and a bunch of dark brown 2x6 plates. It's supposed to be a rusty old wagon used to carry scrap and various materials not worthy of a nice shiny hopper wagon.

A side view of the rather simple carriage.

Blimey! It's empty. Sorry about that blue brick amongst all the bley and brown. It won't happen again, I promise.

As you can see it is highly monkey accessible; here they are using it to transport some decrepit 4-wide vehicles.

Unfortunately this young monkey's taken a liking to this nice yellow car, reminded him of his favourite yellow fruit he would later state in court.

This Metroliner Cargo lorry has a very secure cab, so the monkeys are just taking its wheels and selling them on to a suspicious looking fellow in a motorbike helmet.

Although this is a rather simple MOC, I likes it. And before any starts lambasting me for those untiled sides I didn't want to tile them so there!

C&C appreciated, unless you're just gonna say that scrapwagon would be a more accurate description if I dropped the s!

Thanks for looking,

Laurie

Edited March 28, 2009 by Hinckley

[5150 Lego]

Very cool! I'd remove the beam in the center so you could transport large material. Other than that i like it. Great collor choices!

[SeaKing61]

The beam in the middle holds the sides on! I could hold them on another way, but I quite like it like this. It's just meant for scrap, not large pieces of cargo or machinery. Those vehicles are not what it was designed for, just what was to hand at the time. I may try your suggestion as it's not very secure at the moment.

Laurie

[Brickthus]

The beam in the middle holds the sides on! I could hold them on another way, but I quite like it like this. It's just meant for scrap, not large pieces of cargo or machinery. Those vehicles are not what it was designed for, just what was to hand at the time. I may try your suggestion as it's not very secure at the moment.

Laurie

Perhaps the sort of vehicles you have for scrap would typically be on a Lowmac wagon, depending on the railway era you're modelling.

I would expect more general scrap to be in either a Tube wagon or a higher-sided one, especially for a serious quantity of scrap metal.

Some larger items used to be carried on bogie bolster wagons, which had stanchions at the sides to spread the load and stop it falling off the wagon. This Log wagon is a bit like that.

Scrap is rarer on modern British railways, post-privatisation, except when there is a train load of it.

Mark