I am looking in to building some rolling stock of my own using CAD software on my PC and getting the resulting work laser-cut. This is the way that Ride on Railways produce equipment in 5" gauge; which is what I used on my garden railway in England.

I will probably start with a couple of simple wagons I can use in the construction of my railway, for instance tippers or flat-wagons with removable sides and ends.

Number 1

She does however weigh a ton. Due to her weight and length she's not ideal to take to other tracks with POEM so I will design a lighter, shorter carriage that can fit across the drawbar of my trailer (see below).

Carriage Number 1 is currently on loan to the Hamilton Model Engineers as I have nowhere to run it myself.

Number 2

I had the idea that a small passenger carriage that could ride on the trailer's tow-bar would be handy. Number 1 (see above) is too long, as I'm limited to about 1,500mm to sit cross-wise on the tow-bar. Seeing as most tracks have their own carriages it wouldn't be required that often, so what I will do is make a shorter carriage and swap the bogies from carriage Number 1 when required. Then at some point in the future I'll make another set of bogies.

none at present

See also the Workshop page.