Hi,

Electrocarts from various brands were operated on many stations in Germany until the early ninety's. For baggage and also for the post. When I was a small boy I was very fascinated by these cars and the WIKING- model was one of the first I bought.







Files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4059548

The model shown is printed with a 0.25mm nozzle and with 0.08mm layers.

Regards

Markus

Hi,

Thank you. The download of the Zio- file really didn't work. I renamed the model and this works. I will give a notice to the people at thingiverse.

Regards

Markus

Hello Markus,

The unit looks great

I too like these electric platform vehicles from times past.
There are a number of them on the "service platform" at my station at "Altbach" (HO scale). Due to space constraints (the mantra of the "modelrailroader" ?) I only have one "service" platform on my layout "end station".
The models of the small electric vehicles are from a Kibri kit that I constructed in the 1980's; they are both yellow and blue.

They are seen on the "service platform" in the following images :

















and here is a prototype similar to that in the above image :





they seemed widespread in the period, here is an electric cart on Belgian Railways :





Regards,

PJ

I'm intrigued with the standing step that is lifted up. I assume this is part of the mechanism for making sure there is a driver standing there before it will move, i.e. someone needs to stand on it so it becomes level to operate the interlock.

Yeah, but back then when Lead Acid cells (as in car batteries) were the only power source for such vehicles and wandering a around station platforms is not exactly long distance running, even an English milk float would not have done more than about 10-15 miles, so battery capacity was not exactly an issue, and the environment in which such vehicles were employed had maintenance staff to keep the batteries in top condition and charged up.

Today we want vehicles with 10 times (or more) the running distance between charges, no maintenance and no loss of room in the passenger compartment or load capacity as a goods vehicle. A notable part of the vehicles illustrated above is that they all have a large box with wheels on the corners to carry the batteries, and a load deck on top of that. You couldn't build a modern streamlined car on that basis.