Wyldwood · California

3D-printed G scale water tenders, built to run behind the Big Boy

Wyldwood Railway is a garden railroad built like a 1960s western backlot, and the workshop behind it. First out of the shop: a 1:32auxiliary water tender in three builds, modeled on the yellow Union Pacific water cars, with coupler pockets for LGB-style and Bachmann-style couplers and a battery version for dead-rail running. Print files $64, printed two-car sets $425, shipped unlettered.

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Auxiliary water tender · road 809, battery roof · 3D printed in G scale · Locomotive model by dailerob, CC BY

From the Workshop

Off the printer

The water tender

3D-printed G scale auxiliary water tender, car 809, on garden railroad track in front of a brick engine house, with a figure and a horse beside the rails

Car 809 on the backlot

Printed in multicolor PETG at 0.20 mm layers and running on the layout: yellow, gray, and red straight from the printer, flag plaque in three colors, no paint and no decals. Three builds, with a battery version that powers the locomotive for dead-rail running. Files and printed sets are available now.

Blueprint-style drawing sheet of every 3D-printed part in the G scale auxiliary water tender for cars 809, 809B and 814, each dimensioned in millimetres

Drawing sheet: every part, dimensioned in mm

From the Workshop

Hear when the next car leaves the paint shop

Occasional email: new rolling stock, the Blunami dead-rail conversion video when it's cut, and nothing else.