Original page created on 15/10/2010.
Brand - Reference
SAI 1575
Type
Eaos 81.2 transport of sand
| UIC number | Revision date |
| 31 87 534 x 802-0 | 20.9.85 |
Weight
52/93 g without/with load (NEM: 64 to 83 g). 72 g with new sand load.
Comments
Incomplete registration, identical wheel numbers on each side! Underframe marking: Liliput by Bachman.
The wagon is rather treated to 1:85 scale (dimensions in red).
Opening doors, spring buffers, but buffer heads are skew. Load of real sand, so not to scale. It would require much more finely sieved sand or other product in fine powder.
Moulded Y25 bogies Y25; misplaced brake blocks.
The elongation return system seems unreliable (plastic spring, return by bogie).
This wagon could be returned to the normal type, and registered in sub-series 2 850 to 5 343: 31 87 534 3 802-3 E8.02 (in red, the figures to be changed).
See the Loco-Revue Forum à propos des Eaos
SNCF. Quotation from Pierre B., page 2 of this thread: “The body
of the Liliput model is of a CFF wagon
”.
Modifications
- Brake wheels (not compliant) painted yellow.
- Bogie straightened; ⌀ 10.7 wheels replaced with ⌀ 10.4.
- “Sand” load remade with 10 mm thick extruded polystyrene and diluted wood glue sprinkled with wood powder. The iron sheet ballast is integrated into polystyrene.
History
It is presumably a 72 m3 type built in 1972/74. The transformation into a “sand” type seems to have begun only after 1980.
Documents
- Loco-Revue No. 519 of October 1989, p. 648 to 650
- SNCF 1973 booklet Wagons à marchandises. Characteristics (E8) p. 24 and photo.
Photo Patrick Sambourg on wagons-europe.net.
| Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall length | 14 040 | 161.4 | 165.0 |
| Chassis length | 12 800 | 147.1 | 149.2 |
| Width | 3 040 | 34.9 | 35.6 |
| Height | 3 250 | 37.4 | 38.2 1 |
| Pivot distance | 9 000 | 103.4 | 102.8 |
| Bogie wheelbase | 1 800 | 20.7 | 20.8 |
| Wheel diameter | 920 | 10.6 | 10.7 2 |
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