I built this using leftovers last week on a day off. Its the under frames, hood and cab from a MDC Hustler, a LGB flatcar and some wood and styrene stock. The drive is a USA SW brick, 1st time I’ve used one of them. I had to spread the MDC sideframes 1/4 inch for the longer USA wheelbase:
Its based off an M.A.C. Speeder I found in the book “Logging Railroads of Skagit County” seams like most my prototypes are coming from logging lines lately, maybe I should plant some trees when I rebuild.[;)]
Ian, its a model based on a M.A.C. (Motor Appliance Corp) Speeder, they were built in the first quarter of the century for logging companies in the northwest US. They were gas powered flatbeds that were used as a jack of all trades “pickup” truck to move people or goods that would be too expensive to use a full steam train for, they hauled everything from daily milk & mail runs & various odd jobs, to delivering emergency spare parts and extra shift crews, back and forth from base station to the various camps on several logging lines. They might have been used elsewhere but all my sources so far only show them in the northwest.
Here a nice pic of a MAC doing what it was designed to do
