flat car

1983

The basis of this flat car is the home-made lorry of the former Schorndorf tileworks mentioned above. With just a wooden platform it served for all kinds of garden work. In order to haul it with my Gmeinder, I added two coupling-ends from two other lorries and made a more sophisticated loading area with tilting boards. This flat car is also spring-loaded and has a brake with a removable crank to use the chassis as an "universal" transporter f.e. for rails and other long material.     

Goods Van

"type G10"

1983

The basis for the goods van is a braked lorry from the former Schorndorf tileworks. The body is made from scrap material, in its earliest days this wagon mainly served as a garden shed. The brakeman's cabin is built around the original brake-crank, on the opposit end a big wooden box serves as a locker and a seat. I later added two more small seats next to the brakeman's cab. The sliding doors are fixed in the open or closed position by an iron bar.

1986: Renewal of the planking and the coverage of the roof (sealed taarpaper)

1998: Addition of leaf-sprung axle-bearings

2009: Electric power supply (with battery in the locker box)   

Passenger car

1985

&

2001

The basis of the two almost similar passenger cars are dumper chassis lengthened to 2,40m. Thus the tilting point is set more towards the centre, which avoids derailment when the car should be uneavenly loaded. The bodies are made from scrap with wooden planking. The roofs are covered with sealed taarpaper. Two simple wooden planks offer seats for 4 adults or 6 children

The passenger cars have a brake with removable cranks, are spring-loaded and, since 2009, have an electric power supply for an interior light and the emergency signal. 

4-axle

passenger coach

2002

sold to the Neckarbischofsheim Railway Club

I built this 4-axle-coach from the two dumper chassis from which I had taken the bumpers for the flat car. The frame, made from heavy U profile, has a lowered central section in order to facilitate the loading of a pram or a wheelchair. Two ramps are on board under the lateral benches offering 16 seats.

The body is made from iron profiles with wooden planking. The roof is covered by sealed taarpaper. 4 rubber elements between the boggies and the frame provide only little comfort but excellent running.

This carriage was too heavy for steam haulage on the gradients of the MSGB, so I sold it to the Neckarbischofsheim Railway club in 2008. But my friends always let me have it for my services at "Mannheim Steam Days" until the new carriage will be constructed 

4-axle passenger coach

projected

Length:  about 4,40 m

Weight:  about 500 kg

Brake on all 8 wheels

16 to 18 seats in the compartments and acces for hadicapped people

Roudabout dumper

0,5 m³

   ?

I bought this little dumper from Grübele contractors in Oppenweiler in 1986. This firm had specialized in the building of water reservoirs in the 1950s. As their sites were often rather inaccessible, concrete was prepared with a mixing machine installed as closely as possible to the site and then conveyed by little dumpers on light track, mobile concrete mixers and pumps being unknown at the time.

This little dumper is a great help for lots of jobs, especially ballasting the tracks       

Dumpers

0,5 m³

0,75m³

  ?

With the years I could collect more and more material. The tops were often so rotten that it was best to scap them right away, but I preserved as many chassis, axles and wheels as possible. The wheels of the railcar for example come from no more existing wooden lorries of a sawmill.

A part from the 4 older dumpers shown on th photo I could buy 6 dumpers in rather good condition from the Danzer Sandmill in Dettingen/Erms in 2009.

As the overall length of our main line is rather limited we do not often display the dumpers as a genuine set. But once the one or other dumper taken from the siding with the help of a turning-plate, they are welcome for transporting all kinds of goods like earth, dung and firewood.