{"id":2541,"date":"2017-02-10T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T09:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T09:51:22","slug":"powsides-ger-5-plank-open-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Powsides GER 5 Plank Open Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">Some minor surgery combined with Sinusitis has laid me up for the best part of two weeks so the work bench has been quiet. Filling a little more in the way of head space I opted to finish a long time inhabitant of the queens shelf, a Powsides GER 5 plank Open. Before placing it aside I had built it all apart from adding the castings and I am not really sure why I hadn&#8217;t completed it.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">It proved a fairly straightforward build apart from the fact that the brake shoes were miles from the wheels so I had to split them and move them out towards the wheels. Then make a brass strip to represent the tumbler which I soldered to the rear of the castings after filing a slot. The only other changes were (after reviewing photos in Tatlow) to add some ex Connoisseur GER ratchet brake lever guides instead of the supplied hole\/pin version.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2542\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2542\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2814.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2814.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2814-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2814-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2814-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powsides GER 5 Plank Open<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2543\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2543\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2543\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2820.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2820.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2820-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2820-768x648.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2820-356x300.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powsides GER 5 Plank Open<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2544\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2544\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2544\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2544\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2826.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2826-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2826-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2826-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powsides GER 5 Plank Open<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2545\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2545\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2545\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2832.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2832-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2832-768x555.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2832-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powsides GER 5 Plank Open<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Next its back to the NER Brake vans.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some minor surgery combined with Sinusitis has laid me up for the best part of two weeks so the work bench has been quiet. 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