A rail and road vehicle in France

This is interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_4rU_5FKSc

Interesting indeed!

I’m not 100% sure what practical application it might here unless it could make use of abandoned rail lines with the tracks intact, but it might be a gas to have one for rail speeder club excursions and rallys!

That video came from a German N scale forum that I belong to. The bulk of the comments on it pretty much say “Why not run trains on the tracks and buses on the roads?” I tend to agree but it is still a neat looking thing.

Modern French design with more flexibility (rail and road) than a Schienenbus.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenbus#/media/Datei%3AEifelquerbahn-Ulmen.jpg

Gadgetbahn!!! aka a expensive George Jetson solution to a problem that can be solved using old fashioned technology like well…trains!

https://vimeo.com/4551746

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQiJuQ9fwQM Evans Auto Railer! What is old is new again 1935 to 2022.

Wait theres more from Hemmings Moter News! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF1BUkIiuFk

And then there’s the Schi-Stra bus- I think they are available in HO scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_bus

I had a ride in one of those old German rail buses a few years ago. They didn’t call them “Growlers” for nothing.

Pretty rough riders, too. But they made passenger rail service possible on lightly used Lokalbahnen.