{"id":676,"date":"2013-03-17T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T07:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=676"},"modified":"2019-12-25T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T16:20:29","slug":"rolling-stock-for-the-mqr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/rolling-stock-for-the-mqr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stock for the MQR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After returning from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/on-traxs-2013\/\">OnTraXS 2013<\/a> model railway show, I started to think about doing some modeling again.  I have been putting off some decisions until the eminent decision of where my next assignment will be, but decided last week to just get on with things. <\/p>\n<p>I placed an order with <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.acmesteam.co.uk\">Acme Engineering<\/span> for a set of Welsh-style rolling stock including ten slate wagons, three slab cars and one workman&#8217;s coach:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-678\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-678\" title=\"Acme Engineering Penrhyn Slate Wagon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1672_med-300x206.jpeg\" alt=\"Acme Engineering Penrhyn Slate Wagon\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1672_med-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1672_med-150x103.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1672_med.jpeg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acme Engineering Penrhyn Slate Wagon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-677\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-677\" title=\"Acme Engineering Slate Slab Car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1557_med-300x206.jpeg\" alt=\"Acme Engineering Slate Slab Car\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1557_med-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1557_med-150x103.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1557_med.jpeg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acme Engineering Slate Slab Car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-679\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-679\" title=\"Acme Engineering Penrhyn Open Workman Coach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1676_med-300x181.jpeg\" alt=\"Acme Engineering Penrhyn Open Workman Car\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1676_med-300x181.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1676_med-150x90.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/dscf1676_med.jpeg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acme Engineering Penrhyn Open Workman Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Added to the three slate wagons purchased back in 2011, I now have a decent sized roster of rolling stock for my 7\/8n2 garden railway:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-680\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-680\" title=\"Slate Wagons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slate-Wagons-small-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Slate Wagons\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slate-Wagons-small-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slate-Wagons-small-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slate-Wagons-small-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slate-Wagons-small.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slate Wagons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now all I need to do is set up a workbench to build them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After returning from the OnTraXS 2013 model railway show, I started to think about doing some modeling again. I have been putting off some decisions until the eminent decision of where my next assignment will be, but decided last week to just get on with things. I placed an order with Acme Engineering for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/rolling-stock-for-the-mqr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rolling Stock for the MQR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marchlyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}