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Nothing terribly exciting recently from me, I have been busy making up the Hobbit sets i bought over Christmas. Now it is back to the trains for a bit. I have just been looking at coal wagons. I wanted a wagon that was simply to make yet looked the part, also one that I had bits (Or could get them easily.) to make a train of them. So far I have made six, five black and on white all to the same design. The sides fold down so that they can be loaded / unloaded. I have also been looking at Box Wagons, I have several short axle ones like we had over in the UK in the olden days. I think they are still in some places, but are not as common as they once were. When I was a lad we used to get whole trains of these down the port loading up from the boats. But anyway I wanted something a bit more up to date and I remembered that on my old N Gauge layout I had with my father we had some longer 4 axle type of box wagons that were almost as long as a passenger coach with multiple doors on each side. So I decided to try and make one of those. I plan to make a couple more at least to have a train of them. For anyone who is interested the main 'box' is 40 studs long, I have tiled the interior with lime green simply because I have loads of them I got from a PAB wall when on holiday. Besides I don't think it looks too bad with the blue?
