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Re-activating my HiRail line (20-year hibernation) and adding a double-track 2-rail scale 0 line 8" above it.

I have all the engines, freight, passenger, cabeese I’ll ever need and then some, but what I don’t have is a wrecking crane.

Where does one find an old 0 scale wrecking crane any more?
Old, as I have ScaleCraft, All-Nation, Pearce, General Models, not looking for plastic (actually, have…NO plastic engines or rolling stock, come to think of it).

Thanks

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Is this what you are looking for: wrecking ball crane 20-50’s

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Not quite. More like a 250-tin Bucyrus Erie…to roll on rails.

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the only thing I have seen on rails is the steam shovel

good luck

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I don’t know if you will get better/more informed options over on the CTT forum or not or even if you have posted it there…but I would try over there:

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/default.aspx?groupid=5

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Hi,

I would definitely post this question on the CTT side of the Forum. That being said, I think you could utilize the Lionel 2460 six wheel big hook - at least for a stand in.

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I could try, but this is scale 0, not 3-rail. I have plenty of 3-rail wrecking cranes. I’ll go ask. Thanks!

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If any of the 3 rail stuff is of scale dimensions, why not change the wheels/trucks and couplers and make it a 2 rail?

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Postwar rarely is close. Some wag in some publication, oh, Model Railroadersomethingorother, back in the late 40’s early 50’s, measured a bunch of the Lionel postwar stuff, calculated it was about 1:52 or 1:53.

Compared to the generally 1:48 for 0 and Proto48, well that’s 10%. I have three 0 flatcars on my HiRail pike, and you can tell. Nothing else would work.

It’s as bad as running 027 boxcars behind a big 031 steamer.

It’s all about perspective, and sometimes you can get away with it, sometimes not.

I think the Lionel cranes are about 1/2 the size of 0…and I’ve only seen a handful of 0 2-rail crane cars on 60 years.

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Try ogrforum.ogaugerr.com this is a popular 3 rail forum and they have scale 2 rail forums also.

It is a lot easier to buy stuff for that future layout than to build one.

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Hi Curmudgeon,

3-rail O has come a LOOOONNNGGG way since the post war days of sub scale toys. Lionel and MTH have both made pretty good scale 250 ton cranes that are easy to 2-rail. IIRC, MTH’s 250 ton crane comes Kaddee mounting pads.

Lionel has even done a command control operating crane. The Lionel features two hooks, boom elevation, rotation, couplers, flood lights, and outriggers that are all independently operated via remote control. It, might plastic, but it’s a pretty darn good scale model, and it works. You can also purchase a separate crane tender that contains a sound system that syncs to the operation of the crane.