Decauville coach or wagon in HO or OO

[wapples]

Hi has anyone spotted some OO or HO open passenger wagons to complete a chop picnic scene on my branch line. In the days they literally just put chairs onto a few plank wagons or ore gondolas.

I see these decuville style ones available in the finer scale and I realize it’s a little bit of a specialized item but maybe someone did them for example, the custom-made ones running with the Mary Anne in Maryborough Queensland Australia were built for standard line running. See attached pictures. All advice warmly revived otherwise maybe a simple covered 4 wheel wagon might be suitable.

[81F]

I think the Minitrains ones are H0e rather than 009, I certainly have a few of the Jouef versions dating back to the 1970s if not earlier.

If you are not aware 009 is the same scale as OO (4mm/ft) but represents narrow gauge railways with a track gauge of around 2ft. To do this the model used 9mm gauge track (same as n gauge) rather than the 16.5mm of 00 standard gauge.

In the same way H0e represents narrow gauge railways in HO scale (3.5mm/ft) by using 9mm gauge track to represent 750mm gauge railways or thereabouts.

Hope this helps.

[wapples]

Yes and No your explanation is brilliant and agreed with so many scales it gets overwhelming so in a nutshell your saying instead of searching for

oo scale decauville coach

i could also type in

009 scale decauville coach

and it will run on my peco code 100?

or

the more likely response you may have to make them yourself. lol

[What About The Bee]

Wapples

If I may be so bold.

I understood the message to say: purchase the Minitrains models. Run them on N gauge track, which is narrow gauge in OO scale. Your other nominal OO models will run on the OO track, not the N gauge track.

There will be, of necessity, an interchange where your passengers walk across a platform, from the 16.5mm OO track to the 9mm narrow gauge track, where they board the narrow gauge train to the picnic area.

Your mileage may vary. I think it will be easier to add a special narrow gauge line to your layout than to recreate the narrow gauge cars and locomotives in standard OO gauge.

Bee

[ellocoloco]

Wapples,

I'm not exactly sure what your looking for but as I read it you are after coaches to run on standard gauge Peco Code 100 track. Decauville style but standard gauge.

Do these Open-Sided Excursion Cars from Bachmann look the part? HO but standard gauge.