4-Wheel Railroad (Baggage) Platform Wagon - G Scale Model Plan-set

4-Wheel RR (Baggage) Platform Wagon - Modeling 1:24 (1/2 " ) Scale Plan-Set and Booklet designed by Jack L. Winegar There are fine models and plans sold by others for Platform Wagons, but none are prototypically accurate! Our plans recommend the same materials as the prototype 4-Wheel Railroad Platform Wagons were built of;wood (styrene recommended for Railroad Gardens) and metal with readily available commercial brass shapes. OK, we do recommend plastic nut-bolt-washer castings for the finescale modeler. A material lists with suggested manufacturers is include. Modelers with passenger freight and express station platforms need 4-Wheel Platform Wagons! They go a long way toward livening up the action at passenger station platforms which creates a lot of interest for visitors to your model railroad layout. These plans are designed for large scale modelers, with a rich source of information for anyone interested in 4-Wheel Railroad Platform Wagons used for over 100 years at Passenger, Freight and Express Depots. Our drawings are drawn with AutoCAD with color illustrations to make building the model easier . All the information you will need to build a detailed 4-Wheel Railroad Platform Wagon model is included. CAD printed drawings have the advantage over traditional blue prints because of the fact that details are more easily identified when printed in different line weight colors and there is no confusing hand lettering. We recommend you make copies of the individual details in the scale you model and use as templates. You are purchasing: The six (6) 13"x 19" Super B foldout Plan-Set sheets include: 2) Assembly Drawings, Bolster & 5th Wheel Details, Stays & Handel Details, Metal, Wood & Wheel Details, Material List & Optional Finescale Details. Plus six (6) 9½"x 13" Super A pages of: 1) Isometric Drawing, 2) descriptive information pages with pictures, 2) Scaling Wagon Plan-Sheets for other (23) popular modeling scales, and 1) Fraction, Decimal, Millimeter Conversion Chart. Depending on your modeling skills: Plans are designed to be easily understood by the novice. But, there are plenty of details for the finescale detailed modeler. Model wagons make excellent "kitchen table" projects. From the inception of passenger trains, people on long trips did not travel lightly. They had large trunks holding their clothing and personal possessions. Over 100 years ago sales people made up a large proportion of the traveling public with their cases of samples and their own suit cases of clothing for their long sales trips from town to town. Baggage on Platform Wagons included shipping crates, boxes, suitcases, hat boxes, sample bags, steamer trunks, milk cans, mail sacks, express parcels, bags of miscellaneous stuff and occasionally a large musical instrument. Remember; the "Music Man" express deliveries? Passenger baggage was delivered from pre-arranged horse drawn wagons onto Platform Wagons in advance of the arrival of the train to prevent delaying departure. A Baggage Agent would roll loaded Platform Wagons of checked luggage and trunks from the baggage room to the platform waiting at the spot where the doors of the baggage car would open sliding baggage into railroad baggage car floors (eliminating the lifting of heavy items). (There was no way to stow large trunks and suitcases in the space provided in passenger coaches and sleeping cars.) To meet this need, Platform Wagons were standardized for a stations platform so the wagon deck was the same height as the baggage car floor. Handling checked baggage was a function of the railroads, with express agencies being forbidden from handling passenger baggage. After the departure of a train from the station, several of these Platform Wagons would have been filled with packages and sacks received from the head end cars. These cases and parcels were brought to the baggage room or express office. Express packages had to be logged in and loaded into horse drawn Express Wagons by teamsters for local distribution. Luggage and trunks went to the baggage room to be handed over to passengers, while mail always had to be picked up directly by U.S. postal employees into horse drawn Delivery Wagons. While these wagons had four wheels, a platform and a steering tongue to haul it, there were some interesting variations. Build a unique 4-Wheel RR Platform Wagon for your layout. Every type of depot, be it Express, Freight or Passenger Depot needs Platform Wagons! Plan-Sets are designed and drawn in decimal inches in full scale for 1:24 ( ½" = 1 ' ) scale modeling with AutoCAD, including 3-D renderings and printed in color with a professional graphic printer and spiral bound. Plan-Sets are sold for the non-commercial use by the purchaser only. A purchaser may build as many models as they desire for their own personal use. Plan-Set is printed on high quality printed heavy (70#) acid-free/ECF-Free paper (complying with sustainable Forest Management procedures). These CAD drawings can legibly be increased or decreased size for other modeling scales. Line quality is good between reductions of 11% (Z scale) to an increase to 283% (Gn15 scale). You can almost read the text in drawings that are reduced to 11% with a magnifying glass. A Scale Conversion sheet is included for using and copying drawings into other popular scales. Admittedly, such scales as 1:120 to 1:220 would be quite a formidable tasks to build. This 4-Wheel Railroad Platform Wagon is being offered and drawn in AutoCAD at 1:24 scale, which has a scale name of “Half Inch.” In other words 1 inch of a model equals 24 inches full (real) scale. A Scale Conversion Chart is included which lists the factors for converting 1:24 scale dimensions to popular scales from 1:8 to 1:220 for measurements or when making copies of our drawings printed at a different 1:1 scale. Admittedly constructing this wagon in the small scales would be quite a formidable task. ​ ​This Plan-Set is offered by the Vilas County Lumber Co. which also has more than 100 other Plan-Sets such as bridges, several depots, single stall engine house, grain elevators, barges and car floats, wagons, sheds, trestles, a tunnel portal,sawmill, shingle mill and factory type buildings. Thanks for looking. 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