YR - Kerry Wagons
This article was published May 27, 2020.
I wanted a new series of wagons to be pulled by the Sirdar loco, but was not sure how to make them. The Kerry Tramway was mostly built for transporting timber, so mostly flats with stakes is to be expected. I was experimenting with several different types of axleboxes until (if ever) more info can be found on how the first Kerry wagons looked like. In the end I did a reversed more sturdy version of the classic Atlas type.
I guess they did not have many vans, but I wanted some on my line so I made a van to. Even if I like the Atlas wagons a lot, I didn´t want these new ones to look to like them, specially since the swedish wagons was made for 600mm gauge and my line using 12mm gauge track is more like 480mm gauge in real life. So these wagons are both shorter and narrower, with a wooden frame there the originals had a metal frame. Same with the van, all vans I made in the past have had horizontal boards, so to brake that order I made these vertical and with a pressed plate door on each side, a bit of center.