Re: New Narrow Gauge Car

Thanks, I find it easier to build rather than buy one from the US and then there's the Shipping.

The bearings have standout wear bosses to prevent frame rubbing, I copied the cast pedestals from an 1870's Coromandel goldrush car that I have the Metal parts for.

The wheels were the widest tread that the local foundry had a pattern for, $40 each but I could have had cast at $125 each by Price Foundry up in Thames from an original 1880 pattern. My lathe at 5" swing is suddenly too small so the local shop turned them, which explains the very deep and square flange profile.





My new versions do not have the thickness depth at the axle wearing surface in the verticle plane as I chose to go with replacable inserts, "should" I ever wear them out. A keeper pin holds the wheelset from dropping out of the pedestal legs and allows the car to adapt to very rough track, something that fixed bearings in pedestals as found on the US cars don't have the ability to compensate for.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/10/2015 07:36PM by Chris Walker.