just look at the sleepering?
like Peco streamline with the webs cut, and sleepers spaced out a bit.....[ a trick suggested previously, somewhere....to alleviate the 'crowded' look of peco's sleepers]
I mentioned in another thread regarding royal Naval dockyard railways, a book I first saw referenced by Iain Rice....about the Devonport Dockyard RAilway.
these are still roughly in existance, although much reduced...[google earthed Devonport this afternoon..still saw two yellow diesel shunters..small, probably 4 wheelers]
I bought the book the other week, out of curiosity..thanks to the OP who originally queried these things, to which I researched and replied.......Devonport not being far from where I spent some of my early childhood....plus a parental link....................
a quite curious railway system, full of no.1 curves, setrack points, turntables galore [a couple still visible on google earth!!].....a tunnel which was too low.. and some very curious, 'scratchbuilt ' stock...........including the last diesels, which actually replaced some more modern counterparts..that's the MoD for you......let us hope they don't find a wharehouse full of un-used Brown Bess muskets?
Anyhow, I digress as usual...the 'goods' stock was very interesting...apparently the Dockyard Engineers bught in redundant mainline goods wagons....ripped the bodies off and built their own replacements on the chassis...this done to permit passage through the aforementioned low tunnel 'tween dockyards.
For the modeller, this is an ideal prototype-for-everything-and-anything?
so, build your own generic design of wagon on a proprietary chassis [the older the better]..and it wont be far adrift from an SNSO wagon possibly seen at Devonport?
what prompted this epistle?
the livery of jimread's lovely little saddle tanker!