Interlocking

TT3 was, like S-scale, one of those scales and gauges that I’d always seen, always liked the look of – but just never found the momentum to push forward in. I did build a few wagons, bought and built some locomotive bits, but just couldn’t justify the time and effort into what was (at the time) something proximal rather than central to my interest. I have a couple of photos, but little else to show for it.

A slightly more evocative shot is a little test plank with some more 3D printed vehicles and some wagon kits – the plank has been subsequently re-purposed to test my automatic uncoupling mechanisms.

I have never really managed to build a railway on an embankment, which was such a dominant mental feature for me of the railways growing up in Lewisham – so it was an obvious candidate for a little test.

Phil’s Workbench did a series of articles both online and in BRM about building a PO wagon in every scale, and when it came to S-scale, I was surprised to elarn that the S-scale Society’s 60th (?) anniversary product was an injection moulded RCH1923 wagon, and so I built one too:

I got a bit further with some scratchbuilds in S, half made chassis and various wheels and assortments – but again, just couldn’t find the energy in me to dedicate to it when my eyes were more focused on a large Minories-style layout.