Nice! I too recently dove in head first. Rather than a car, i started right on the locomotive....my favorite: GE 44 Tonner. I found a great bit of CAD shared online, and hope to make it real! Your work has and will inspire me more. Thanks for sharing!
I'm glad to hear that! I'm kind of doing the same. I've been designing a GP40 for laser cutting, and recently purchased a steam engine project to finish up. I'm happy I have inspired you, and I hope you continue to learn and build things. Keep at it!
This is awesome! Great video! You're living the dream. I have my own locomotive but live in an apartment so my ability to build stuff is very limited. Can't wait til I get my own place with a garage so I can build my own stuff. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧
In your drawing you have 2 different scales listed. 1:8 ~ 1.6" (1.6" : 12") But 1:8 = 1.5" : 12". 1.6":12 = 1:7.5 Which is correct? Hoping you're sticking with 1:8 and looking forward to your other builds. Subbed and bell rung.
@@terravariousThanks for the comments, and sorry for the confusion. Hopefully I can clear some of your questions up. This flat car is 1.6":12". So you are correct it's technically 1:7.5 so a little larger than 1/8. I'll update my drawing so it's accurate. Thanks for bringing that to my attention! If you wanted to make this flatcar 1/8 exactly it would need to be 7'6" long and 15 3/4" wide. Honestly if you plan on transporting this with a pickup truck, I'd recommend shortening it anyway. The car body is exactly 8' long as is so it will only fit in my truck without the couplers on. I didn't think about that while I was building it otherwise I probably would have made it a bit shorter. The scale box in the legend at the bottom right corner of the page is referring to the scale of the drawing itself. I know it's a bit confusing, it's the only way I could export the drawing to fit on a standard sheet of paper. A note on why I chose 1.6" instead of 1.5". All of the off the shelf parts I bought were advertised as 1.6" so I chose to match the scale of the parts. Especially since the powered trucks I bought for my GP40 project are 1.6" as well so I figured I'd build my "fleet" of standard gauge locomotives in that scale. However the difference in the size of truck wheels from 1.5-1.6" is pretty small so using 1.6" trucks on a 1.5" car would be fine as far as looks go. If you have any other questions, feel free to email me at jtengineeringYT@gmail.com. I'd be happy to help you how I can.
Thanks! I think it turned out pretty good. My mill is a Precision Mathews PM30-MV. Though I didn't do a ton of milling on this project since I bought the trucks, I do have plans and parts to start building a steam engine so Ill definitely be using it a lot for that.
@@leeannmartin7778 That specific engine was coal fired. Propane is used commonly as well in model steam engines since it doesn't produce the ash and fire hazards that coal produces.
Interesting. I'm not sure how well they would work. Having a bunch of weight down low I think is important for keeping the track, but that's definitely an interesting thought. Maybe I'll give it a shot!
I’m your biggest fan 😊
Love small trains you can ride on! Subbed for more!
Awesome thank you!!! I've got some good ride-on projects coming up so keep an eye out for those!
Nice! I too recently dove in head first. Rather than a car, i started right on the locomotive....my favorite: GE 44 Tonner. I found a great bit of CAD shared online, and hope to make it real! Your work has and will inspire me more. Thanks for sharing!
I'm glad to hear that! I'm kind of doing the same. I've been designing a GP40 for laser cutting, and recently purchased a steam engine project to finish up. I'm happy I have inspired you, and I hope you continue to learn and build things. Keep at it!
Cool stuff. Subbed for more
I always wanted to build one of these! This is great.
You should! I put the plans I drew up to build mine for free in the description of the video if you like the car or just want a reference.
This is awesome! Great video! You're living the dream. I have my own locomotive but live in an apartment so my ability to build stuff is very limited. Can't wait til I get my own place with a garage so I can build my own stuff. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧
Thank you! I'm excited to continue learning and building. Someday I'll get a locomotive built, and you will have room to build!
@@J.T.Engineering looking forward to the next video!
In your drawing you have 2 different scales listed. 1:8 ~ 1.6" (1.6" : 12") But 1:8 = 1.5" : 12". 1.6":12 = 1:7.5 Which is correct?
Hoping you're sticking with 1:8 and looking forward to your other builds. Subbed and bell rung.
@@terravariousThanks for the comments, and sorry for the confusion. Hopefully I can clear some of your questions up. This flat car is 1.6":12". So you are correct it's technically 1:7.5 so a little larger than 1/8. I'll update my drawing so it's accurate. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
If you wanted to make this flatcar 1/8 exactly it would need to be 7'6" long and 15 3/4" wide. Honestly if you plan on transporting this with a pickup truck, I'd recommend shortening it anyway. The car body is exactly 8' long as is so it will only fit in my truck without the couplers on. I didn't think about that while I was building it otherwise I probably would have made it a bit shorter.
The scale box in the legend at the bottom right corner of the page is referring to the scale of the drawing itself. I know it's a bit confusing, it's the only way I could export the drawing to fit on a standard sheet of paper.
A note on why I chose 1.6" instead of 1.5". All of the off the shelf parts I bought were advertised as 1.6" so I chose to match the scale of the parts. Especially since the powered trucks I bought for my GP40 project are 1.6" as well so I figured I'd build my "fleet" of standard gauge locomotives in that scale. However the difference in the size of truck wheels from 1.5-1.6" is pretty small so using 1.6" trucks on a 1.5" car would be fine as far as looks go.
If you have any other questions, feel free to email me at jtengineeringYT@gmail.com. I'd be happy to help you how I can.
Nice job on the flat car and the video! What kind of milling machine are you using?
Thanks! I think it turned out pretty good. My mill is a Precision Mathews PM30-MV. Though I didn't do a ton of milling on this project since I bought the trucks, I do have plans and parts to start building a steam engine so Ill definitely be using it a lot for that.
You don’t need coal to power your stem engine you can use oil instead or just wood
@@leeannmartin7778 That specific engine was coal fired. Propane is used commonly as well in model steam engines since it doesn't produce the ash and fire hazards that coal produces.
Consider 3D-printing your own trucks. ;)
Interesting. I'm not sure how well they would work. Having a bunch of weight down low I think is important for keeping the track, but that's definitely an interesting thought. Maybe I'll give it a shot!