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2012-04-28
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modern era coaches
- N scale etched conversion kit |
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The
swedish N scale market is a rather small market with
just a few models produced by "the big
companies"
as Fleischmann / Roco / Minitrix. And modern era swedish
coaches are not an exception to this fact.
Fleishmann have some older swedish coaches still
availible, but, nothing from todays era.
As Fleischmann this year, 2012, at last, will rerelease
the swedish electrical engine RC4 / RC6
Ihave order two of these locos and I thought it
would be nice to be able to build up a couple of
passenger trains
as thay appear on the swdish railways today.
The latest SJ livery is Black, all black, with a few
white and yellow details.
The engine has to be repainted, the Fleischmann engines
are in the older orange or blue liveries.
But
since there are no suitable
models
of swedish coaches som construction work also has to be
done.
The easiest way ought to be to find another
commercial model with right size and build a conversion
body for exchange
And that´s what this webpage is all about
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The
rereleased RC4 Engine in orange
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The
second version called RC6 in blue livery
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The
real RC6 in latest livery painted in black. |
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A
suitable raw of black painted coaches as I want to have them on
my layout. |
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Based on
Roco and Fleischamnn Continental Eurofima coaches I made the first
three prototypes of a SJ A7/ B7 standard coach
Reusing all parts, except the plastic body, which was replaced with my
own etched replacment body.
These models are painted in three different liveries, original
1980-brown, 1990-blue and 2010-black
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Later this year, after some adjustments and additions has been done,
the model will be commercial released as a "Conversion kit",
primarily
for the Swedish market.
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Below a little bit more of how I converted the
coaches and some information and facts
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Drawings
of two of the versions of this type of SJ coaches
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B7
2:nd class coach |
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BF7
2:nd class coach with luggage
compartment |
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Some facts: |
The
coach family,
type A7/B7,
prepared by SJ and Kalmar
workshop in the early 80's,
has since
then
been the standard for
passenger cars.
The coaches
has been produced
in a number of version,
on the outside quite
similar. Larger
series have been
rebuilt with new function and comfort classes. The coaches
has during the years had many changes of
liveries,
ranging from the earliest SJ-brown
to today's black color
scheme.
Apart from the usual A7/B7
the wagon family has included different
type of wagons:
- Coach with luggage compartment, BF7
- Bistro Wagons
R4,
- Bistro
and moviewagon
S12
- Sleeping car WL6
- Couchette BC4
- And also in a special BlueX
series
with trailer types
A11, B11 and RB11
Repainting was not always
consistently implemented
and has been made
over longer periods
of time which means
that a
complete passenger train could include
coaches from several
different "color" periods
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A few pictures of the
converted models
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B7A
- in latest black livery (2009 ---->)
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B7
- in blue/red livery (about 1996
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B7
- in original brown livery (1980 -1996)
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History of liveries
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