Antony Wright1707819869 Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 How about something like this for a new engine?http://www.transportation.army.mil/museum/transportation%20museum/images/krail14.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 OK I guess if you run a USA layout. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Looks a bit like a 'Galloping Goose' rail car that used to be sold in the US, by (I believe) Lionel. There was a 'bus body behind the cab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Wright1707819869 Posted September 23, 2017 Author Share Posted September 23, 2017 I was thinking more along the lines of something for a ww2 scenerio. I wonder if there was a similar thing in the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Nothing quite like that here. Road vehicles on rail wheels have always been a bit of a novelty in the UK. The main line companies rarely did anything quite that, and neither did the military on standard gauge. There have been a few efforts on narrow gauge, light and heritage railways, The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch and the Ravenglass and Eskdale railways, both 15 inch gauge, used converted tractors as locomotives, and in WW1 there were some similar vehicles used on 2 foot gauge by the Army. Nowadays special engineering road vehicles and 'yellow plant' are fitted with retractable rail wheels which allows them to drive on the road to site of work and then work in possession on the rails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Wright1707819869 Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 Thanks for the info. Much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 How about this one - should be fairly easy to scratch from an nexisting model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 A road-rail vehicle common around a few years ago was the BRUFF which was a lorry carrying rerailing gear which had road wheels and rail wheels which could be folded away when not needed. These appeared in the 1980s and were allocated to various TMDs. They would attend all but the worst derailments and had hydraulic jacks tohelp put vehicles back on the track. I don't know if they still use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Oxford Diecast are selling or about to sell a road/rail Land Rover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Road/Rail Landie - sounds like a motorising challenge - plenty of tiny motor/gearboxes around these days - and where can you get sound files for a Landie. DCC role swapping - road to rail and back again.Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Gonna be a squeeze /media/tinymce_upload/44e1d7f06dfb64d6689232ff1b57f99e.jpg Wouldn't load as a direct picture taken on the iPad but emailed to myself as a .png onto the PC and saved as a .jpg it loaded OK.Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 I've got to squeeze flashing blue lights into that one first.Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Acknowledgements for the copyright - picture as posted on the internet./media/tinymce_upload/531f456cc48b307e43e424e7c5897194.jpg Or Rails of Sheffield have this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howbi Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 This would be good for a scratch-build & room for a sound decoder........... 😀.........HB /media/tinymce_upload/be0c391b3a37f5492128dae029ca3b28.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howbi Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 /media/tinymce_upload/b2f7b13f8712305b18560f7ab75b67e2.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 /media/tinymce_upload/9b13765db8ddc72047c4070ddabe8c5c.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/c11f0bd871db45adb6694427b4180fe7.JPGseen today at York, (25/10/17) shunting wagons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 And then there was LC&DR plus two others triple headed shunt of a 16 ton Mineral full of signalbox coke! 😆Getting it moving wasn't too much of a problem but one of us had to be nippy to get a brake-stick in to stop it again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Oh for roller bearings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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