LMR Livestock Wagon Project

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Demo of the functionality. Painted. Don't blink!

The bolt heads need to be taller, as the trick of prepainting them black, over painting in green, then wiping to reveal the black was hampered by them being very shallow

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With passenger traffic well underway¹, the Liverpool and Manchester railway turned its attention to freight. We have notice of the first pigs to travel by railway, ever, in May of 1831. 

We also have notice, in October of 1831, that traffic of sheep and "horned cattle" will soon begin.

Progress Report: Cattle Waggon

The latest prints came back from Shapeways. A trial fit of parts is always in order.

The deficiencies in the floor are corrected. The bolts in the slat sides were made taller. This had the unfortunate affect of making them very fragile. I noted several were missing, directly upon removal from the shipping bag². This will need correction in design.

The height of the bolts did make them much easier to blacken without touching the background. The irregular bolt pattern is caused by missing bolts.

Painting up to the bolts, but not over, was much more readily accomplished. The bolts are now ~1/64" high. Quite happy with the way these waggons are turning out. Version 1.5 on left with taller bolts, 1.0 on right.  

Ackermann: Cattle on left, pigs on right.

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¹It is noted that 460,000 passengers traveled on the LMR in the first year, alone.

²they were not in the bag, leading me to believe that they broke off at Shapeways. It is my design in error.

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I have reached the finish line with the Livestock Waggons.  Yes, period articles do have two g's in waggons, although it does look odd today.  

First, the close up of the waggon

The bolt heads touched in with the glass head pin, looking very crisp.

Next, a set of three livestock waggons.  

Sometimes, they were loaded with cattle, other times pig.  

And finally compared to the Ackermann consist 

Quite pleased, although I may need another set of sheep waggons to complete this depiction.  One more sheep waggon, one less primary livestock waggon.

That fourth waggon between the sheep waggons is the alternate livestock waggon.  Recently explored in a different thread.

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