The Hartland bogie wagons also have potential. This is the works caboose...

 

 

Repainted, glazed, new steps, work bench plus details, European-ised (I'd like to think) by adding a guard rail at the end...

 

 

And in service with the track gang, who keep it spotlessly clean, even if they do leave their tea mugs lying around...

 

 

The flat/stake wagon makes a good base for a bash as well. The H&DLR (Birkentalbahn division), in common with other Austrian narrow gauge railways, is well equipped to handle timber traffic and not averse to picking up a wagon from another administration when the opportunity arises...

 

 

As with the woks caboose, a full repaint and a guard rail with European style hand brake. Information plate from plasticard with rub down letters.

 

 

I'm not sure whether this wagon might yet go back into the shops for a further rebuild; I'm not convinced by the location of the handles on the end or the turnbuckle bolt heads (too American for an Austrian wagon) and the end piece probably ought to be at the end, not inset. The timber uprights really should, for a mid to late 20th century vehicle, be replaced with metal ones. When I originally did this conversion, the idea was that the wagon was sufficiently inexpensive that I would leave it out on a siding all the time and let the weather gradually take its toll on a "disused" wagon. Having painted it all up and so on, I didn't have the bottle to abandon it, so it forms part of the timber train. Maybe, though, it needs an upgrade if that is to be the case...

So here is the revised version - end pieces from an LGB wagon (see this page), centre buffers, "metal" style stanchions in place of wood, new data panels...