2D-printed Steam Generator and Heater Cars

This looks interesting but might get more response on the Hi-Rail, O27 and Traditional 3-Rail O Gauge forum.

Regards

Fred

Were these types of cars primarily used with passenger cars to provide heat and electricity?

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Were these types of cars primarily used with passenger cars to provide heat and electricity?

Steve

 

Yes. Early days of diesel there were times when the power units did not have generators for passenger cars heat and electricity so these filled that gap. 

sncf231e posted:

This looks interesting but might get more response on the Hi-Rail, O27 and Traditional 3-Rail O Gauge forum.

 

Thanks for for your advice, I was thinking to mount Kadee couplers and use trucks with scale wheels in order to write about this project in the "2-rail scale" forum. Then I decided to mount a pair of 3-rail trucks maybe for the "3RS" or "O27" forum. Whatever forum I would choose, it does not change the fact that it is not about any (molded or styrene) plastic car body, but about a tinplated car body shaped from three (coated and folded) sheetmetal parts. I just wanted to demonstrate here, what is possible to build out of recycled scrap metal. 

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Were these types of cars primarily used with passenger cars to provide heat and electricity?

I suppose the purpose of their existence was for long distance passenger trains during the winter season to achieve better comfort inside the pullman coaches and sleepers. 

When the first electric trains appeared in Germany around 1900 a so called "Heizungswagen" (heating car) was added to the train; this had a steam boiler to heat the passenger cars since no steam from the locomotive could be taken. Märklin made a tinplate version of this in 1906 in gauge 1 only which is very rare but also very interesting. It was delivered with a length of tube such that you could heat your cars; the escaping steam from the cars was just like the real thing! The pictures are from a book (I do not have a car like that!).

Regards

Fred

Jawohl, ein echt funktionierender Heizungswagen ist immer nuetzlich fur die kalten Winternächte! Maybe I should fire up my heating car and put my Xmas tree in Flames  Probably I Will install a Seuthe steam system like in some smoking caboose cars. Thanks for sharing info about this prehistoric heating car.