I found this picture of a small American Crane with the cab on the left side. This one is powered by a left hand rotation Detroit Diesel 4-71 engine.
Can you imagine what it would be like to spend 40 hours a week sitting three feet from a two stroke Detroit?
This is really a great pike-sized model for a layout. It could be modeled without any compression, and there does not look to be any too dificult to make details or rigging.
-Kevin
Um . . . yeah, I did notice that. [:(]
But on another, more positive note. I noticed your intermodal gantry crane. Looking good, Mike!
Robert
I have one
I never met a master styrene modeler that made me feel inferior before
The mans work was phenomenal
His display was at the big train show that only comes through St Paul about every 7 to 10 years
N scale all custom built piece-by-piece with styrene
I’m not saying I don’t think I could do this but I would need a whole lot more time on my hands and a strong desire to want one to make the time
With that said I just had to appreciate this talented artist’s work
[:P]TF
Kevin, Can’t take credit for the Artitec RTR crane’s superb ‘out of the box’ weathering job and have little knowledge as to it’s prototypical accuracy. There’s certainly advantage to “model what ya’ know.”
Thanks & regards, Peter
Menards has some HO scale construction cranes. I have one of the large towe cable excavators on the layout.
https://www.menards.com/main/search.html?search=HO+scale+diecast&page=2
Neal
Thanks for the compliment, Peter.
This is the kit that started it off:
I also have two of the Walthers powered American crane cars, and I found a package of lattice crane boom sections on Ebay.
Not sure what I will build, but I just had to have them:
Neal, that Menards crane is pretty close to a Liebherr crane, maybe something in the 800 to 1200 series.
Mike.
NJ International makes crane boom flatcar loads.
How useful they’d be to actually make a crane boom I have no idea. I thought Plastruct made some too but cannot seem to find them.
I believe the various Kibri offerings are Liebherr prototypes.
Dave Nelson
Dave, the kit you linked to is what I have in my post. I haven’t figured out what I’m going to build yet.
Out of the package, they look very good.
Mike.
I think there are a few cranes at this show…
http://www.p-kun.com/gallery/topics/shizuoka2008/show2008-2.html
…including this particular one that can ride the rails…
Kibri made a model of this one, #16000
I have one, along with a somewhat similar model on road tires… Kibri 10130
Mike,
i like the looks of that yellow crane of yours. I have something like it,…a Vollmer HO #5625,…never built…
…looks like it is no longer available?
Do any railway cranes like that operate in the United States?
I was involved with one that was built in Wisconsin, but it was placed into service in Tibet. It could lift a locomotive off of one track, swing 180 degress and place the locomotive on another track. The railway cranes I have seen in the USA are different designs.
The one I am familiar with had a shockingy small diesel engine. Looking at the two pictures Brian posted of other rail crane models, those look like they also have very small engine compartments.
Brian, sorry, your Kibri model is barely similar. That is like saying a Ford pickup is similar to an EMD GP-40. They both have internal combustion engines and can pull things, but not really similar.
-Kevin
Yes you are correct. I guess I was just considering the boom construction style.
BTW, that boomed-out counterweight feature on the Kibri #16000 is quite interesting. I though I had 2 of these, but I can’t find the other one.
Telescoping counterweights are an incredible technology and greatly increase the lifting capacity of a crane without increasing the size of the transport envelope.
They are also incredibly dangerous if they malfunction. I don’t know of any crane tip-over that can be attributed to counterweight malfunction. The safeties and redundant sensors on these systems is bewildering.
-Kevin
Those are wonderful models, but I wonder if they ever built something like these tracked vehicles to support crane loads like these tall structures could handle ??
Brian, I am sorry, but I have read this sentence several times and I can not figure out what you are asking.
Could you please re-phrase the question.
-Kevin
Look at the intracacy achievable with photoetching in this (unfinished) crane from Metal Earth. It’s probably about z scale, the HO A-100 pickup is there for scale comparison. So, if they were to take this pattern, enlarge it to HO, make the handrails and a few other details more proportional…
What an opportunity those with photoetching capabilities are passing up in not exploring the HO market, N scale, and any others with cranes and any number of other items that could best be made in this format, right? They have a Cat excavator That looks close enough to HO for me, although too modern for my layout.
Dan
Sorry about my wording. What I was referring to is with tall heavy lift cranes like these I would think you would need a broader ‘base system’ /spread to support the crane rather than just that narrow, somewhat short track base??
Langley Models makes some cranes in N scale ( really 148 scale).
I have built two and they look good.
don’t think that I ever took a photo.
they cover other scales too.
A couple of the model cranes I’ve collected up,…
Kibri #10438
Kibri #10738
Kibri #10784
Kibri #10202
Yes the outriggers do spread further on the prototype. Altho rubber tire cranes are heavy, they are limited to road weight limits. So the out riggers need to be longer to create a bigger footprint to make up for the lighter weight of the base unit. Tracked cranes are far heavier. For the same size lifting capacity. A plus in tight working confines. The tracked crane base is shipped in many pieces. The tracks undercarriage assembly also telescopes outward to square up the footprint. Instead of a rectangle. Something missed on models alot. These tracked (crawler) cranes dont usually have outriggers because they are used in situations where loads need to be lifted the. Walked to location to be set. Rubber tire cannt walk a load to position. Only swing it in.
The only rubber tire cranes designed to walk a load are the RT (rough terrian) series. But that is a limited function restricted to a light maximum weight and lift height. And boom extentsion. short didtance of travel as well. That option is never really used unless absolutely needed. Usually there is an excavator onsight that they will do that move with. It just easier. and less liability if solething goes wrong
i dont approve that move on my sites as there is almost always an excavator on site that can easily handle that load.
Shane