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NYC’s first ALCO RS-3:
Photo rendered as a watercolor.
A new unimog counts as historic?
Certainly some different subjects in photos.
The Galloping Goose I recognized, but the second and third pictures?
Johnny
That Chevy would certainly turn heads at a speeder convention! (Needs a grille, though)
And add some of those “spinning” chrome custom wheel covers to hide those rusty old railroad wheels - then you’d have something to “catch the eye” as it “cruises on down the line” . . . [8D]
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Then we add a cool paint scheem on it. A little pinstriping flames, fins, a snppy catch frase on the lisence plate, and to follwo up on the paint scheem it would be TRAINS’S logo in flames! Then stuff Kathy Kubi, Jim Wrinn, and Matt Van HAttam in it. Then you have some thing that will get more people to subscribe.
Are they even old enough to qualify for being “Historic”?
(actually, is the Unimog brand that old?)
You’re right Larry, that Chevy definitely needs a grille.
Unimog dates to the 40’s. I remember having a Matchbox model in my collection in the 60’s.
Unimog was promoted here heavily for track maintenance uses for a while in the mid- to late-1970s - check issues of Simmons-Boardman’s Railway Track & Structures (and maybe other trade magazines) from back then for the ads.
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Larry; thanks for the “Memory Jog” there; I think I had one in my “Matchbox” collection
also while I was still modelling in HO Scale.
Paul; that prompted me to go back and look at one of my “Pocketlist of Railway Officials”,
seems that there is an ad for Unimog in there.
(the first one I went to, is dated 1st quarter 1960.)
It’s great to share stories of vehicles about the past. If you guys have pictures that want to share please do so… I was looking for this type of vehicle for HO scale but I haven’t found any.[#oops]
It’s great to share stories of vehicles about the past. If you guys have pictures that want to share please do so… I was looking for this type of vehicle for HO scale but I haven’t found any.[#oops]
It’s great to share stories of vehicles about the past. If you guys have pictures that want to share please do so… I was looking for this type of vehicle for HO scale but I haven’t found any.[#oops]
Either the Pontiac Wagon changed colors or it has an orange twin in CN lettering…
UP Hi-Rail semis are dime -a-dozen, but historic? (they are a pain to set on)
“Matchbox” type vehicles are often close to HO, although they are hardly consistent in scale - everything pretty much has to be about 3" long, so large vehicles are undersized, and small vehicles are, of course, oversized. (The original Lesney Matchbox vehicles all came in the same sized box.)
Time to break out the tape measure and HO scale ruler. Find a diecast vehicle that fits your needs, see how close it scales out, then go to work with some hand tools (a Dremel or equivalent would be most handy) and some stuff from your spare parts box and you’ll end up with a hi-rail as unique as some that actually ran the rails (those little railroads got pretty creative sometimes).
Motorizing it will take a little more ingenuity, but it could be done.