Free wagon SVG files

Spokes are the part to watch

On the wagon wheel alone, each spoke is about 3.4 mm wide at the rim and nearly 5 mm at the hub when the wheel is 100 mm across, so it cuts well in vinyl from 60 mm and in 3 mm plywood from about 150 mm. The wheels on the wagons are much smaller: on the covered wagon at 100 mm long the back wheel is about 29 mm across with spokes 2 mm wide. Cut the wagons at 150 mm or more if you want every spoke, and weed from the hub outwards.

Each wagon wheel is joined to the wagon at its hub and by the reach that runs between the two axles, so the design lifts in one piece. The covered wagon silhouette has nothing cut out of its bonnet or box and stands on a straight strip of ground, which makes it the one for a shadow box or the foot of a layered western scene.

Which wagon is which

A covered wagon has a flat box under a tall canvas bonnet. The Conestoga is the heavier freight wagon: its box dips in the middle so that the load could not slide on a hill, and the bonnet juts out at both ends. The farm wagon is the open box with a spring seat, and the hay wagon is a flat bed with a rack at each end. The little wagon with a long handle is the child’s pull toy.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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