The Boy has taken an interest in crane cars recently, undoubtedly inspired by his marathon sessions of watching the new Bob the Builder. I’m thinking about getting a PW Bucyrus for him and was wondering what the group thought was the better car: the 2460 with six-wheel trucks/coil coupler or the 6460 with the four-wheel trucks/magentic coupler. I think there will be a lot of use of the crane so stability is important - but so is him not getting frustrated with coil couplers. Thoughts?
I’d vote for the 6460. plentiful compared to the six wheel trucks and should be cheeper.
The 2460 is consired somewhat collectable. So I would go with a 6460.
Also there have been many colorful crane cars since the 1970s. You could find one of them that he might like.
These are not playtoys so I would expect he might destory it.
Drat! I see that I just missed the 2016 bratwurst festival, last week in “Beautiful Downtown Bucyrus, Ohio”!
It’s just as well. They apparently haven’t built cranes there since the company moved out in 1893.