Wagon citerne "Margnat" / LGB tankcar conversion

I think the right name fore those kind of tankcars is: "wagon foudre"
And there are some very interesting ones indeed!
Perhaps a nice scratchbuild project... Mmmm.....

There are some very nice pictures of of these barrel cars (and wine tankers!) on: ParisEnImages, like these:

Approvisionnement en vins aux entrepôts de Bercy, en prévision de la guerre. Paris, juillet 1914
(or is it a home delivery at the Hibbs residence?)





Paris. Wagons-foudres de la Halle aux vins aux entrepôts de Bercy 1926:






And I like this (model)scene!:

(found it on Cercle du Zero)

Paul

Paulus wrote:

I think the right name fore those kind of tankcars is: "wagon foudre"

Approvisionnement en vins aux entrepôts de Bercy, en prévision de la guerre. Paris, juillet 1914
(or is it a home delivery at the Hibbs residence?)


Paul

At last my own private siding. I wish....
Although if there was such a track going down this road it would have to go past the Mayor's house...
He'd have all the Grand Cru and I'd just be left with the Vin Ordinaire.

Great pics from Paris and that last one of the model and the HY made me laugh....'Hedgehog Cooperative'.

FINALY FINISHED!!!!

Doorhandles and little viewing opening hatch in place. I think I call it done!
Or.... does the big hatch on top of the tank need some sort of wheel to open and close it? Or should I leave it like this?

I made the shunter figure out of Fimo clay last year but I added a flag and did some minor repainting. It looks nice although it is a bit bigger than most figures (more 1:20 scale). Ah well, it's just a big lad!
Flag is made out of a toothpick and a piece of sodacan.
















Paul

Superb piece of work there Paul. I like the figure too

EXcellent, the figure looks a bit intimidating though. Not sure I'd want him delivering wine here!

Carl Hibbs wrote:

EXcellent, the figure looks a bit intimidating though. Not sure I'd want him delivering wine here!

He looks a bit surly, maybe he has had a nip or two en route?

Thanks guys!

Yep, the figure is on alert, making sure this clochard is not getting too near...
And off course he's getting a nip now and then (more now than then)! That's a secondary working condition

Quote :

We ship some of the products (non-toxic chemical) from the plant where I work in large rubber bladder bags (called Flexi-Tanks), stuffed inside a standard shipping container. The shipping company told me these bags are also used in France to ship wine. I didn't ask what brand.

Bill, I find some information this is done by a wine company called Corta Hojas (Chili?): http://www.cortahojas.com/eng/granel.html#


"One container can carry 10,000 liters of bottled wine, compared with 24,000 liters in a Flexitank. More than twice the capacity that naturally produces considerable savings in transportation costs. Also CO2 emissions are estimated to be reduced by up to 50%.
The Flexitank transforms a 20-foot ISO container into a single transport system for bulk wine ... we like to use the mark Flexitanks TOD, which incorporates the latest technology in materials to create a barrier that minimizes the possibility of the deterioration of the product."

NOW THAT'S WINE IN A BOX!!!

Hey, what happened to all the pics on construction in this thread? I went to look back at how it all started, and a lot of the images are gone!

They are still there I think Clive...I've just had a look...What do you see instead of pictures?

...or maybe it's mad cow disease.

BTW I'm going to split this thread into two as it really has become 2 subjects now.

Pictures are still here as far as I can see...
Could it be that the site that host the images was down perhaps? (hey it's a free service!)

But all pictures are visible at: http://public.fotki.com/SmallGardenRailway/citerne-margnat/

Paul

I have split the posts about about milk transport and created another topic here.

Milk transport

I think the problem lies with the small Linux-based Asus laptop i use occasionally when I am downstairs - it still uses an old version of Firefox as a browser. I can see the pictures ok on the actual photo hosting site link, though - also, all my Photobucket pics show up ok in my posts on here. Weird...