Monorail locomotive 1:16 scale

[Chuck Doan]

That is great Gordon! How many of those Fordson's did you make? I like that paint scheme a lot.

[Scratchman]

Thanks Chuck, here's a photo with all four of the Fordson projects.



Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[TRAINS1941]

Gordon like Chuck I love that paint job, beautiful work.

Jerry

[Ray Dunakin]

Beautiful!!

The Red X Mining company must have bought Fordsons in bulk.   

[finescalerr]

Gordon, you rascal! You've been building Fordson models and keeping them secret! Most satisfactory. -- Russ

[chester]

Each a masterpiece.

[Frederic Testard]

Wonderful meeting, Gordon. Could be displayed in NYC, I think.

[fspg2]

Gordon,

wonderful work, fantastic aging and beautiful images of your miniaturization of reality! I like it much!

Here is a different kind of monorail, maybe one of you wants to rebuild the vehicle on a smaller scale.

Frithjof

[Scratchman]

Thanks guys for your comments, and thanks Frithjof for that great link.

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[mad gerald]

Here is a different kind of monorail, ...

... waaaay coool ... 

You didn't show that on a german forum before, IIRC ...?

[artizen]

Interesting to see that the monorail was made in England. Here is another link to what Road Machines (Drayton) built -
http://railmachinesltd.webs.com/thesteammonotrain.htm
http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/16/Monorail.htm

Used internationally at over 800 sites and now forgotten.

Thanks for the link!

[davej]

A Road Machines system is preserved at Amberley -

http://www.amberleynarrowgauge.co.uk/monorail-project.htm

[fspg2]

Davej and Ian,

thanks you for the links!

I think it's great that there are people who restore these witnesses and preserved it for posterity. Lots of them unfortunately are becoming increasingly rare.
There are so many beautiful projects that would be great to become miniaturized. Only our time has finally.

Here are same more links for monorail-pictures und videos.


Frithjof

[mad gerald]

... and last but least the more modern (but less charming) monorails being ued in some german vineyards *click* .... *click*

@Frithjof
Didn't you post a picture about a vineyard monorail somewhere too ...?

[fspg2]

Gerald,

Did you mean this picture?


it´s taken at river Mosel in the near of Cochem/Germany


I found something about model monorail

and here: monorails in history

@Gordon: Sorry, I hope that I will not hereby too watered down your thread to much.

Frithjof