{"id":1360,"date":"2019-10-26T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:26:03","slug":"mqr-slab-cars-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/mqr-slab-cars-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MQR Slab Cars – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Way back in 2013, I purchased a number of 7\/8″ scale car kits from Acme Engineering in the UK. Here it is late 2019, and only now have I had the time and space to start working on them. I purchased three slab and ten slate car kits so I thought I would start with the slab cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I purchased the kits with the Penrhyn-style buffers, but after reading many of Chris Bird’s articles on rolling stock (like this one on his build of the Acme slate cars<\/a>), I’ve decided to go with dumb buffers for all of the MQR rolling stock going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I purchased some dimensional wood from the local Michaels<\/a> and ran it through my table router in which I mounted a tall ogee bit. This gave me nice wide-radius curves for the front of the buffer. I then glued the new buffers to the ends of the slab cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to cover the face of the buffer with some plastic strip I had stored away for another long-forgotten project. And to finish it off, I used some brass pins to represent bolts holding the plastic “metal” buffer facing. Below is a photo of the buffers under construction; they still need to have the plastic and brass pins epoxied to the wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slab Car Buffers in Construction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My least favorite part of the original slab car kit was the decking and so I decided to replace the decking that came with the kit with popsicle sticks to make a more interesting deck; something more like the lead photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the proof of concept:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slab Car with Popsicle Stick Decking (Proof of Concept)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in 2013, I purchased a number of 7\/8″ scale car kits from Acme Engineering in the UK. Here it is late 2019, and only now have I had the time and space to start working on them. I purchased three slab and ten slate car kits so I thought I would start with … Continue reading “MQR Slab Cars – Part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marchlyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}