Flat wagon F5, loaded with
firewood, stands with open wagons B1 and B2 in the goods siding at the
old Possum Creek.
The RVR has the following rolling stock available
for service or under construction
| Open Wagons
Open wagons were the most important wagon
type on steam era Australian Railways, and the RVR is working on having
the 9 to 1 preponderance of open wagons that the full size railways had!
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B1 is based on the TGR B class of open wagons.
The chassis is a modified Lehmann while the body is scratchbuilt in styrene. |
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B 2 is a completely scratchbuilt from styrene,
(except for the bogies) and is a scale model of the vehicle of the same
number that ran on the Emu Bay Railway. |
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C 3 is a fairly straightforward conversion
from the Lehmann # 94016 open wagon. The end platform was removed,
the ends were reprofiled and the chassis shortened. |
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C 5 was supposed to be a quick conversion of
the toy open wagon that came with Tom's
Engine, but I got a little carried away! It started out as a
rather horrible looking 4 wheeler but has now been converted to a bogie
wagon, which has improved its appearance immensely.
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C 8 is another conversion of the same type
of toy open wagon that was the basis of C5. It is broadly similar
to C5 except for the 9" planking and the wheel handbrake. |
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CC 119 is fully scratchbuilt from styrene, except for the bogies
and genuine cast brass TGR working buffers obtained from WD Models. |
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CC 119 was my first genuine Tasmanian Government Railways vehicle
and was painted with reference to colour photos of the full sized
CC wagons, so the white patches under the doors are authentic and represent
spilt superphosphate!
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K 14 started life as a Bachmann 20ft Gondola, but has now had the
superstructure replaced with a scratchbuilt styrene body based on the Mt
Lyell K wagons. |
| Hopper Wagons |
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Q9 is a fairly stock Aristocraft, except for
the truss rods, Tasmanian drawgear and a lot of work with saw blade and
sandpaper to give the appearance of timber grain to the plastic castings |
| Side Tipping Wagons |
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6 side tipping wagons have been modified from the
Bachmann mine wagons. They are un-numbered or lettered and are used
mainly for ore traffic and ballasting.
More
on the side tippers |
| Flat Wagons |
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Photo by Mark Hobbs |
F 5 was one of the two Lehmann # 94016 flat wagons, bright red and
very toy like, that were my first Large Scale acquisitions. Removal
of the side sills, most of the stake pockets, addition of RVR standard
buffers and hooks and construction of Mt Lyell style firewood cradles for
the ends has improved its appearance considerably! |
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F8 is another conversion of the Lehmann # 94016
flat wagon. This one has had its length extended and retained the
original Lehmann side sills, representing another variation on the RVR
F class, and is reminiscent of the TGR KG class flat wagon.
More
on F5 & F8 |
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FF 16 started life as an LGB
# 42690 American flatcar and has been altered by the addition
of a buffer beam and buffers and the deletion of some of the stake pockets,
and now is reminiscent of some of the bogie flat wagon used on the Emu
Bay Railway.
More
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This flat wagon is the mildly modified bottom end of an Aristocraft
Gondola is currently un-numbered and un weathered. |
| Log Bogies |
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Logs are carried on this set
of LGB disconnects, # 40770, which have been painted and weathered.
More
on the Log Bogies |
| Closed Vans |
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E 2 has been converted from a bright yellow
Lehmann # 94267 LG&B Box Car, which with the removal of the "American"
steps and the conversion of the peaked roof to an arc roof, is very similar
to some of the early Emu Bay E vans. |
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This model of a TGR (ex Tasmanian Main
Line Railway) E+ (E cross) closed van has been scratchbuilt in styrene
on a modified Lehmann chassis. It is fitted with link and pin couplers,
rather than standard Tasmanian hooks and buffers, as it represents one
of the E+ vans that were used on the isolated Bellarive to Sorrell line.
The vehicles on this line retained their original TMLR link and pin couplers
till the line was closed in the early 1920s.
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I 1 is a conversion of a Bachmann box car and is inspired by the
Mt Lyell I vans. |
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A Bachmann Baggage Car, kindly donated to the
RVR by Graham Morphett, has been converted to represent a bogie
E wagon (EE) that has passenger bogies allowing it to be used on passenger
trains, hence EEP. |
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This is a Bachmann 20ft boxcar that is still in the very early
stages of its evolution into a Tasmanian "near enough" It has had
a corrugated iron arc roof added and is tentatively classified EE.
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| Stock Wagons |
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After being under construction for years HA 1 has finally been completed.
It is a conversion of a Bachmann stock wagon. It is inspired by early
SAR and NSWR vehicles as there were no bogie cattle wagons in Tasmania
till the 1970s. |
| Passenger Cars |
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BA 1 is a conversion of a Bachmann passenger car and is reminiscent
of the ex North Mt Lyell cars that were sold to the TGR and became BA 49
and 50. |
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B3 is a conversion of the LGB # 35090 Sachsen 3rd class car and is
inspired by the ex TMLR 4 wheelers, and is finished in the style of preserved
A+17 first class car at the Hobart Transport Museum. |
| Brake Vans |
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D 1 has been under construction for about 3 years, but has finally
been completed. It is based on a very small, distant image in a photograph
on Pg 65 of the first edition of Lou Rae's Mt Lyell book. It started
life as a toy American style caboose that came with the train set that
included Tom's
engine. See the Jan
04 edition of the Rurr Valley Reporter for more details of its evolution.
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D3 is a quick conversion of the Lehmann end platform brakevan, having
had the high windows on the side covered in and a scratchbuilt "Mt Lyell"
style enclosed end added. It is painted in a similar shade of brown
that was used by the Mt Lyell Abt railway for passenger cars and some brake
vans. |
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D 6 is a somewhat more complex conversion of the Lehmann end platform
brakevan and is a "what if" inspired by the real TGR D6.
If the real D6 ha been sold to the RVR and then rebuilt in "DB"
style, it may well have looked like this. It is painted a similar
shade of red to the pre 1936 TGR red.
More
on D6 |
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Still at the planning stage is a model of TGR (ex TMLR) D+4
to fit on my Aristocraft track cleaner car. The wb is about right
and the foot boards will disguise the American W irons and the cleaner
pad. D+4 was a TGR "rebuild" of the ex TMLR brake van of the same
number, though the original was shorter. The body is outside framed
and it retained TMLR link and pin couplers till it was scrapped, as it
was allocated to the Bellerive-Sorrell line.
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