If you are into Intermodal you have to checkout the new kit from Heljan Plastic.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/322-89001
This speaks for itself.
Well Jeff, it’s very nice and…very expensive. It would be impressive as the center piece of a layout featuring a container terminal operation. If you could afford the rest of the layout.[swg]
Tilden
Wow! It really is impressive, and sounds like the capabilities are great. No cut corners here.
Look on the bright side… That’s the Walthers “full retail” price. By the time the hobby dealers get it, it will probably be a “mere” $600 or so.
Ok, so where are the moving trucks? They show them in the video. Do they use magnets too? They must be included since they show them operating in the video[:)]
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Honey! I Shrunk the Intermodal Facility!
Coming to a theater near you…
That is very cool!
I know the price will scare off alot of modeller but some people have lots of money and love to spend it.
bill
I wondered about the trucks myself when I saw them in the video. We may have to drop Heljan a line and ask about them.
Their crane operator does need to learn what he’s doing. Notice how he stacks the containers, 20 footer on top of a 40 footer, stacked off center (corner posts not aligned), etc.
So… Tom:
Do you know what the pay rate is for the little people ?
Just asking.
-Ed
I wonder if they take offense to being called little people ?
Probably, but I don’t care.
-Ed
I wouldn’t mind one, it’d be about 120 years out of time period…but I could sure see myself setting up a port layout just for one of those…
–Austin
Faller Car System trucks, I’d bet. They use an electrical wire of some kind (I’m hazy on the details) hidden under the roadbed, which the motorized truck follows. Very neat to see in action, and with the right bitz you can do bus stops, level crossings, or even fully-functional “rolling road” flat cars that the trucks automatically mount and disembark. Expensive, tho.
I dropped a note to Heljan and, you’re right.
"Dear Tom
It is correct, that there is not track. We place a thin wire under the plate for the Containerterminal and then used a car from Faller Car System and that is how it is working.
Best regards,
HELJAN A/S
To be paid equally with us full sized people it would have to be 1/87 what we receive. [:D]
Well, the Faller system is the only one that exhibits the characteristics shown in the vid, so it wasn’t a matter of guesswork, really.
With that music, the little people must either be very happy, or taking medication to keep them in line.
Must be union… 