Flatcar Question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMcy_bMN6iQ

Does anybody know where these Plarail flatbeds with pipes originate from? I think there might've been a video on the forum about it relating to tankers but I can't remember.

ToKi 15000. First picture from the Plarail Museum:

Took me quite a while to gather up 6 of these but the most difficult part was obtaining the grey pipe that fits on them. Of course I had to get rid of the original yellow wheels and replace them with the normal gray and along with black couplings look much better imo.   In addition to releasing this in 2005 individually (see Chrisjo's post above) this was also released earlier with the EF59 train in 2001. There is a red colored one like this that came in two different sets that had multi colored pipe.

I picked up a lot of 10 of the red ones you mentioned previously, but only one of them had all 3 of the mulitcolored pipes (and only one of them had axleboxes).

Had to print out 9 more sets of pipes and I'm currently printing set 7 as of typing this.

Anyways here's a link to tinkercad of the pipe itself for printing
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/1SxbTRT...uELH2p9i60

dimensions are as follows: 100mm long, 15mm diameter (external), 12mm internal diameter (1.5mm thick pipe)
happy printing!

(09-29-2024, 07:49 AM)FfarquharDeveloper Wrote: dimensions are as follows: .... 15mm diameter (external), 12mm internal diameter (3mm thick pipe)

so exactly the same as a commonly available type of plastic plumbing pipe!

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(09-29-2024, 07:49 AM)FfarquharDeveloper Wrote: I picked up a lot of 10 of the red ones you mentioned previously, ..... only one of them had axleboxes.

March 1989 to 1994



December 1994 to ?1999



?1999 to 2003



and for completeness, here is the Plarail Expo 2001 release of the black one that Super mentioned above:



All pictures from the Plarail Museum

i didn't even know there was a difference between the 1989 to 1999 version of the tooling
guess i ended up with all of the 25000 versions then huh