Found this on a scale auto forum, thought y’all might like the link.
http://www.scaleautomag.com/sca/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24590
Greg
That is just too cool! Be pretty easy to model too. I wonder how many rivet counters wouldn’t beleive you when you told them there really was a prototype.
COOL
There’s actualy colse to hlaf dozen of those things working down on the UP’s Sunset Line between Tucson and Casa Grande. I think they are working on the new double track coming through
Canazar, really? I didn’t see them on the way from Tucson to Phoenix yesterday. But double tracking is awesome. I was amazed that the route was fluid with those traffic levels! 6 trains in 30 minutes! Wow! Thanks for your recommendations, by the way!
Haven’t seen one quite like that, where it is just a semi tractor which could pull a trailer.
The railroads have a bunch of these though.
yeah, it is cool, i have never seen one like it, but i have seen regular cars, and small trucks modified to go on rail.
I’ve seen pictures before of a simple semi with hy-rail conversions. Cool stuff, but I like the flat beds better.
Big_Boy_4005, do you have any other pictures that come closer to the rail wheels of those trucks? I’m kind of curious as to what the mechanism looks like compared to conventional hy-railers.[?]
I wish someone would make an N scale Ford F650 Super CrewZer so I can convert it to a hy-rail work truck.[:D]
Scott, sorry the quality of that photo isn’t better. On that style of truck the flanged wheels seem to be much larger, and mounted on a heavier hydraulics than the typical hirailer.
They must have pretty good tractive effort, because I’ve seen them pulling gondolas loaded with ties, and hoppers loaded with ballast. About 4 cars each.
Here’s the one that was pulling the ballast hoppers. The other one was a CP unit, this ia a BNSF, and while the equipment mounted to the bed is different, the rail platform is is the same.
If you were to model something like this, it might make a good track cleaner.[;)]
Thanks for the second picture. I can see the hydraulics a bit better on this picture. It probably would make a good track cleaner if you can get the unit powered. Possibly even use a powered boxcar behind it…?
Yoshi, hey my pleasure!
Back to the MOW crews… Last weekend in Jan I think, we went down to Tucsin for club setup at a trainshow. There were track crews for MILES (Stretched over a 20 milw span) up and down the whole line. So bad that were joking that every peice of MOW eqipment UP had south of Las vegas was there. I think I saw 4 r 5 of those Big Rig Hi railers, dozen front end loader on rails, those white Ford Super Duty pickups by the dozens. It was pretty amazing.
almost as good as the steam engine I saw in MR with pantographs, the swiss will invent anything…and the americans come second. Interesting the comparison of prices on the other site, that these are cheaper to run(or buy in the first place
Canadian Pacific uses alot of big trucks where I live but I’ve never seen one like that before.
I bet I can build one for my Gscale model. I know that Aristo Craft makes them and I bet I can somehow place the motor block inside it.
Scott, I was kind of thinking a small can motor under the hood, with a simple worm drive, or even the old Athearn rubber band drive. The tires would hide the wiper pads, and liquid could go in the box behind the cab. Seems very doable for HO, and O would be even better.[swg]