{"id":313,"date":"2008-06-29T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=313"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:57","slug":"modelling-iraqi-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/modelling-iraqi-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling Iraqi railways"},"content":{"rendered":"

RMweb<\/a> has some discussion of models<\/a> which could be used to represent Iraqi Republic Railways locos.<\/p>\n

Three or four years ago I went to a model railway show in Sutton, south London, where someone was selling imported Czech resin bodyshells for building models of various Czech(-oslovakian) locomotives. At least one of the bodies on show was suitable for an Iraqi loco – perhaps a T669. Unfortunately I didn’t buy one at the time, and I didn’t take the details of where they were made and who imported them. Does this sound familar to anyone? I could be tempted to acquire one now if anyone knows who the supplier is! <\/p>\n

Anyway, an RMweb poster called Fosterboy<\/q> has identified some possible candidates for conversion into models of IRR locos.<\/p>\n


\nIRR DEM2200 loco.
\n
\n\"Piko<\/a>
\nPiko SNCF BB 567590 model.<\/p>\n


\nIRR DEM2700 loco
\n\"Bachmann<\/a>
\nBachmann Chinese DF4D model<\/a><\/p>\n


\nIRR DEM2800 I think you need the cabs of ??? and the body of ???<\/q>
\nUnfortunately the links from RMweb to the Roco website have got mangled, and I can’t figure out a way to reverse engineer them, but this class has been described as “the body of a TE109, the front ends of a M62 and the roof fixtures of a 2TE121”, which could help pin down suitable models (why are so many model manufacturers’ websites so appallingly bad?).<\/p>\n


\nThe DES3100 is available as a brass kit
\n\"DK-Model<\/a>
\nDK-Model brass T669 locomotive kit<\/a> <\/p>\n

More suggestions would be very welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RMweb has some discussion of models which could be used to represent Iraqi Republic Railways locos. Three or four years ago I went to a model railway show in Sutton, south London, where someone was selling imported Czech resin bodyshells for building models of various Czech(-oslovakian) locomotives. At least one of the bodies on show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,144],"tags":[38,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}