Lil Big Hauler Combine Car Into Railbus Bash
As part of the ongoing evolution of my roster I have been trying to find ways to upgrade older models that for what ever reason just never worked as well as I would have liked. With the main layout becoming a harbor transfer layout, I have pieces that are now extraneous without any place on either the harbor layout or are too big for the pizza. This was one of them, a railtruck bashed from HLW parts and a NWSL Magic Carpet drive:
Its track powered but it was too large for the Pizza but there is no place for it on the Harbor, so its has lingered in limbo as to what it should become, I wanted a passenger railbus but it had to fit the pizza. From the first moment I saw the new Lil Big Hauler lineup I was certain the combine car would make a nifty railbus and, come a lucky low bid on a brand new Lil Big Hauler passenger train set on Evilbay and low and behold I had the perfect base for bashing the a new railbus. I started by carefully cutting up one end and re-positioning the two end walls.
I had to reposition the body forward, so the engine hood got moved up, otherwise the chassis is unchanged. Add some LGB passenger car seats, a couple figures inside and the final results:
