Happy New Year everyone! Here are a few bashes that I’ve done for our Garden Railway with little or no investment.
Here are two service trucks that I made just to see if I could. I build aluminum G scale train bridges and figured I needed a service crew to maintain them and this is what I built.
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The Ford Supervisor Truck is simply a 1/24 scale truck with a section of the undercarriage removed just enough to fit a motor block from a G scale Speeder. I have grades on my layout up to 6% and these little guys will run all day long. The Service Bucket Truck required a slight 1/4" frame extension to fit the USA Trains motor block inside the truck frame. Neither of the vehicles interiors had to be damaged to make this happen and I even left the battery powered lighting in tact. The hardest lesson I learned was wheel clearance. Very important actually! I got the wheels as close to the rail as possible so that it would ocassionally graze the rail giving the illusion that the wheels actually propel the trucks.