The other vehicle constructed specifically for the A.V.Lt. Rly. was the railcar. It was kicked into action from a challlenge from Carl Arendt (not the only challenge we’ve ever had I add) Steve Bennett had sent Carl a photograph of a railcar kit he was putting into production in his 09 range of models. It was loosely based on an Irish prototype and Carl challenged me to a race to build a Gn15 model. Carl’s model was a little different to mine which was a pretty straight copy of the kit. Simple construction methods ensued as it is no more than a styrene box placed on top of a Bachmann “Happy Holidays” trolley car chassis. The most important lesson I learned during the construction of this model was the importance of weighting everything correctly. To start with the thing wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding. But by trial and error with the weights. I managed to get a very nice running vehicle indeed. It still sits in my Gn15 stockbox to this day.
Everyones (and I do mean everyone) favourite shot of the railcar
Railcar at the "works" perhaps it has brought everyone to work?
