Rolling stock - scratchbuilt ash gondola

Used coffee stirrers and 8x8 beams:

          

Added the wheelsets:

                                

Scratchbuilt coupler box before weathering:

                                

Added and weathered the sides:

              

Added the ash load (sifted ash from my fireplace): 

                                   

Scratchbuilding a class A Dunkirk (1)

Extending my locomotive rooster, I decided to build a class A Dunkirk with vertical boiler.

I started off with an Athearn SW7 chassis, took off the plastic and used only the mechanism:

                 

I built the decking and the frame using board-by-board construction:

            

Here is the boiler, motor and water tank getting started on:

               

Here comes the building of the motor chassis:

            

            

I also added NBW castings and knuckle couplers to the frame:

            

More to come soon.

Coffee table progress -- repair car

New rolling stock scratchbuilt from styrene.

I took some old wheelsets and glued on a piece of styrene to make a flatcar:

Then made some junk from railroad ties and pipes:

Here is the flatcar with the load glued on it: