RAILWAY DRAWING

dolphus

Marius i have modled some SAR stuff buy it is much easier to ger drwaings of the american railway stuff...maby you may know of a source?

dolphus

Axeonalias I dug back into my murky archive an found these:-

An E7 with a big dose of artistic freedom enjoy

numbthumb

Some General Electric stuff here: http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/workcars.html

dolphus

Thanks numbthumb but we were specifically SAR or South African Railway equment

ely862me

numbthumb

@dolphus said:

Thanks numbthumb but we were specifically SAR or South African Railway equment

Ooops!

chrisglasier

@dolphus said:

Axeonalias I dug back into my murky archive an found these:-

Do you know why it has the door and setback at the front?

cadmunkey

Great models as usual Dolf. Keep up the good work!

dolphus

@chrisglasier said:

Do you know why it has the door and setback at the front?

No on my part it is just "artistic licence"...i thaught it looked cool but i also realised it would add to aerodynamic drag.... but i went with cool?

dolphus

The extractor fans of the loco

dolphus

I recieved a whole bunch of South African Railways Locomotives drawings but am confused and not sure who sent them to me numthum or Gaieus so i must thank both of you or the one that sent the plans ...very much appreciated i will start working my way through them....watch this space ... once more thank you very much

dolphus

I got so excited looking at the plans of the SAR locos that i just had to start on one this is the E5 1 electric loco ( i saw hundreds of them pulling anything from freight to passesger trains when i was still young and good looking).......brings a big lump to my throat.....here is the start .......watch this space

numbthumb

I wish I had your enthusiasm and dedication to details, dolphus.
Keep it up. And I will watch this space for sure.

axeonalias

Hehe seen alot of these, They are still around Dolfus armed with Salt air Rifles,burns like crazy if they catch u walking around on the lines hehe

dolphus

Numthumb thanks for the plans and the flattering remarks.....working on first loco
Matius you are not supposed to climb the fence into the rail reserve....naughty naughty,,,,

dolphus

Class 5E 1 Progress ....Front right section

dolphus

Started work on the bogies

dolphus

Thanks for the complement James, mostly i model from scratch but that is because my computer,s filling system lets me down, and it is faster to start from scratch, the advantage of doimg the same thing again normallt leads to a improved product
( i shpuld take a month offand sort my s**t out)

ken28875

Hi Dolf,

I missed that thread before. Just found out about your train stuff. Very nice. I'll make sure to follow this thread.

Looking forward to seeing the finished model.

Best,

_KN

systematic_mechanic

Hi, Dolf and everyone else.

I found this site and this post while researching Trains.
Your work here Dolf inspired me to get Sketch Up and try and
model some sort of train related thing like a Box Car, Flat Bed,
or maybe a Tanker.

I spent this whole weekend gathering reference material
about or of Trains in particular Trucks or if you prefer Bogies
because I figured that would be the best place to start a train modeling project.
Start from the ground up right?

While I admit I don't really know Sketch Up all
that well I have been doing computer graphics on
and off for 11 years.

If you guys want I can give you all my reference
images and drawings.Maybe they will be of so help to you?

In return all I ask is that you just use them as reference
and education because all of it is from the web and also you share
with me any information you might have that will help me model the
objects required to complete the 3D train model like a Flat Bed Car
for example.

Kind Regards,
Jeff Andrews