The MOW Engineers wagons

One aspect of real railways that particularly interests me are engineers trains which are used for maintaining the railways and infrastructure. It was therefore a foregone conclusion that space would be found on the layout for a small yard

My favourite aspect to this is the rolling stock and I am particularly pleased with the Catfish Hopper wagons. I got the inspiration from this design on Railbricks but have altered it so that it now has a 7 stud wide hopper rather than 8 stud on the original design. They really capture the character of the real wagons, a credit to the original design. I have made the 3 so far in red, black and grey. The black is correct but the red ones were a darker shade in real life (gulf red). I have not been able to amass enough of the correct type of maroon brick to build one so far but the search continues......................

This wagon was built from the new parts contained in the new Lego 4434 Tipper Truck Lorry. It makes a pretty good representation of a standard metal sided open wagon

Finally I have some older style low sided wagons for transporting spent ballast, spoil or waste.

The other aspect to this is the yard and to help fill it I am amassing a range of road/rail vehicles togethr with some construction materieals and track (at least its a use for all the space curved track that I have). The mound of meterial grows as I get inspiration and I am particularly pleased with some pipe crates that I have assembled - (these will be detailed in another update soon)

There's more engineers wagons to come but unfortunately my priority has to be the docks and station on the layout - more progress reports soon