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Stockers goes minimum at 12" to the foot on 7 1/4"; minimum gauge in the garden
Topic Started: 19 Aug 2012, 09:21 PM (694 Views)
Chris Stockdale
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I have dithered over my 5" line for far too long. However, much as I love (they can't touch you for it) my 5" gauge Maxitrak Ruston it is for sale in the relevant section of this forum. Yes, I am, as the title says, now planning to create the Pell Wall Agricultural Tramway at 12" to the foot.

Pell Wall because that is my location just outside Market Drayton and Agricultural Tramway because it is to serve the veg patch, possibly the kitchen and certainly next door's stables by bringing in the muck to grow ever better veg. Yes, it's the poo line

Not all is lost from the 5" however. The cutting will need widening and the sleepers will be for sale, but the rail itself and chairs that slip onto it are standard PnP products and will fit perfectly with their 7 1/4" sleepers.

Motive power is likely to be something like:

http://www.sevenandaquarter.org/gallery/photo/?action=view&g_id=771

i.e. a very simple battery electric, sideways sitting so that one does not have to twist one's head off when changing the direction of travel.

I hope to have some drawings in a few days. I went to visit Phoenix Locomotives:

http://www.phoenixlocos.com

last week and we worked up some ideas using their project loco underpinnings

http://phoenixlocos.com/products/projectloco2/

which should make for a very small loco for me at about 32" long excluding couplers!

A couple of wagons for the ordure and the Tramway will be running.

bestest,
Edited by Chris Stockdale, 19 Aug 2012, 09:23 PM.
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Good to see you have finally got the right number of inches between those back to backs!
Martyn Redfearn
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