Are there any 3'6" EMU's?

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Tokkyu40

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I've been building some projects in 1067mm gauge lately, and was windering if there were any electric multiple unit trains to go on it.
I have some German trams in meter gauge, but I was hoping to find something a little bigger.
Thank you.

:cool: Claude
 
Pretty much everything run by QR in Queensland is 3'6" (1067mm). Search QR or QR EMU on the DLS - that should give you a few...

Paul
 
Thanks for the tips, everyone.
I already have the QR EMU, IMU and SMU, which I think are standard gauge. I'll double check the next time I'm in Trainz.
I may have found a gap on the DLS. :p Callum027 can rescue us when he finishes the Ganz train. The WikiPiccies look interesting. It'll be fun to see how your version comes out.

:cool: Claude
 
Midland said:
Aha! The Ganz-Mavag units. Will you be stopping at Kaiwharawhara? :D







Cheers

Nix
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I live around Naenae, I go into Wellington often, so I get good enough shots of the Ganz units.

EDIT: Oh yeah, if you want a taste of how good I am at modeling:
http://gcfreak.sepwich.com/images/dc_2.jpg
This is a DC class. I built it to 3ft6in.
dc_3.jpg

DC class ready to import to Trainz for testing.
 
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Looking good Callum. All you need is to model it with a fat git with a coffee percolator inside and it'll be spot on! :D

I had the privilege of cooking the traction motors on one of these Pig Island monstrosities when they first appeared on the Midland line down here. Dropping down into No 1 tunnel I inadvertently threw the reverser over instead of the dynamic brake lever and when I opened the throttle... well let's just say that after all the sparks, flashing lights and warning bells we had to put her off at Staircase. Oops, I did it again! :D





Cheers

Nix
 
Midland said:
Looking good Callum. All you need is to model it with a fat git with a coffee percolator inside and it'll be spot on! :D

I had the privilege of cooking the traction motors on one of these Pig Island monstrosities when they first appeared on the Midland line down here. Dropping down into No 1 tunnel I inadvertently threw the reverser over instead of the dynamic brake lever and when I opened the throttle... well let's just say that after all the sparks, flashing lights and warning bells we had to put her off at Staircase. Oops, I did it again! :D





Cheers

Nix
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A fat Alastair should do the trick :D
 
 
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Callum027 said:
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Still lotsa stuff to do, but it's coming along great.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2774/etmeshfh6.jpg
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It is indeed - of course I'm still hanging out for the DC, no electric units here in the South Island even though we generate most of the electricity they run on in the North :-)

I noticed something interesting (to me) the other day. I thought that all NZ rolling stock had round automatic couplers. The Tranzalpine was sitting in Greymouth Station and I saw that the coaches in fact have automatic (what I call) claw couplers - the attachment to the locomotives (a DCP, whatever a DCP is, and a DX) which do sport round couplers being effected by way of an adaptor.

A small detail which I am not suggesting should be modeled - it means I can now run one or two claw-coupling items on my NZ-like routes without feeling uncomfortable about it.
 
G'day Greymouth! :D

All locomotives and stock were fitted with the standard hook and buffer coupling including side-chains in the early days (side-chains were retired during my time with NZR).

There have always been a number of exceptions to this. The NIMT standard steel cars were always fitted with Alliance tight lock automatic couplers. The guard's vans for these were fitted with an alliance coupler at the vestibule end but a standard hook and buffer at the opposite end.

For a loco to pull these trains they could be coupled to the standard end of the guard's van (using a kidney link instead of a hook) or they could be coupled to the vestibule end of a passenger car fitted with an alliance coupler using a transition head.

The Wellington EE units had their own kind of tight lock coupler but since they only ever coupled to other units there was no transition head needed.

The Fiat railcars also had an automatic coupler and for decades this also wasn't a problem.

Then someone came up with the bright idea of refurbishing them as passenger cars, for which they were painted green and immediately dubbed "grassgrubs". A special transition head had to be fabricated because these vehicles were locomotive hauled.

After an incident in which a loco parted from the AC cars it was towing because the movement between the two vehicles was so extreme the couplers slid up and disconnected, flanges or shelves were added to the transition head.

As a precaution these shelves were added to the alliance transition head also.







Latterly a number of wagons used in "unit" trains were given automatic couplers. the large bogie coal wagons running on the West Coast coal traffic.

Plans have existed ever since Moses was a cowboy to convert the NZR stock to automatic couplers and even though it could be achieved relatively easily we're still left with those American Civil War couplings that have imposed severe restrictions on tonnage hauled.

Here endeth the lesson!:D






Cheers

Nix
 
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Midland said:
G'day Greymouth! :D

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Here endeth the lesson!:D

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Thank you - that's really interesting. Transition head? Gosh, what a lovely term. Until recently I had never examined NZ couplings in any detail.

I quite like the round automatic couplers, there's something about them. Also, much of the european 1 metre stock sport the same or near-equivalent, so they look okay on a 3f6i route. At least, now, I don't have to be so fussy about couplings - just pretend that there is a transition head ib place :)
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Wow Callum you're racing ahead with those things!

That outline shape looks pretty good too. At least now I can sit down inside them!:D





Cheers

Nix
 
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