People’s Republic of China N Scale trains

[Section31]

@jingpeng Appreciate the update. i am interested in doing the same should it be not too hard. I would love to use the standard Nem coupler on N-Scale Kato/Tomix/European feright transport on the Changming Freight Locomotives.

Edited Tuesday at 05:49 PM by Section31

[jingpeng]

33 minutes ago, Section31 said:

@jingpeng Appreciate the update. i am interested in doing the same should it be not too hard. I would love to use the standard Nem coupler on N-Scale Kato/Tomix/European feright transport on the Changming Freight Locomotives.

On the P70 wagon it's not so difficult. I have to:

• Remove the bogies and the frame
• Unscrew and remove the original Changming coupling
• File down 0.5 mm on each side where the original coupling was screewed (the NEM pocket width is 1 mm larger than the Changming "box")
• Put a small amount of cyanoacrylate glue to glue the Dapol NEM pocket
• Wait a bit to let the glue set
• Insert the Dapol coupling in the NEM pocket
• Make some test
• Screw the bogies and refit the frame on the chassis

That's all. It seems a lot of work, but it's not really such an hard job

 

[disturbman]

@Section31 by "standard NEM coupler" do you mean Rapido couplers? Kato andTomix don't do anything NEM, but they use Rapido couplers.

If that's the case, Changming has them, but we are the only one to retail them. They use to pack a pair inside the box of their early locomotives, but they stopped doing so a while back. When they more or less released what I call their 3.0 locs.

[jingpeng]

I also took some pictures of some steps of the conversion

 

[Section31]

@disturbman Thanks. I was looking for those, i will pick them up from you closer to when the CR400AF-Z delivers.

[Section31]

Not sure where to put this but apparently tinyhk trains were converted to be runnable trains. Another regional transit system that can be collected. So now motorized MTR train models exist to some extent. Interesting potential ahead

Edited 22 hours ago by Section31

[Lessigen]

I can definitely see Minitown doing something like that. They're already working on models for some of the Beijing and Shanghai metro rolling stock.

[Section31]

@Lessigen That would be good as TinyHK is not exactly great quality and decent detail (its known for doing hong kong theme stuff). Now i just need china/hong kong train station diorama to match.

 

Just doing the high speed rail station in hk even some of the major stations like central/admiralty will be lot of work.

Edited 19 hours ago by Section31

[disturbman]

Not an announcement, so I moved the conversation about TinyHK here, though obviously we could discuss the validity of merging HK with the Mainland.