Here's my composite Orecar rolled out prior to priming and riveting.
This has the body of the car on display at Leadville with the frame based on a car used in Montana and the Turntable and Box cradle from cars built at the Fulton Foundry at Virginia City, Nev. The bearing pedestals are pure homegrown NZ goldfields versions and the wheels from the only suitable pattern at our local foundry.



This approach of combining styles of certain builders and geographic locations allowed me to have the parts I wanted without building 3 or more cars. The Leadville car had a turntable hinge that was beyond my shop capabilities to produce without outside help. I also had to design a workable and suitable drawbar coupling to accomodate the Leadville style lever latchfinger as all these cars chosen as prototypes were hand trammed not animal or motor hauled.



This car will become a display piece on a wastedump track during the Summer and in the Winter will be a rolling woodbox shuttled between the woodsheds and Cabin.

And also ... A big Thank You to Doug J for getting me a close-up photo of the unusual fold in the endgate hinge that I omitted to sketch properly on my field trip.

Chris
in New Zealand