Track Inspection get in your car!.........

[themole]

Some ideas for kit bashing die-cast and powering.

I would suggest a few ideas for something a bit odd-ball. Alyn

 

[WillemD]

Brekina can get to work!

 

[bobg]

Here's another that some may recognise. Made from a Ford Model Y truck, and actually used for passenger services. I think there were only ever two built and this one is actually a replica, but built the same way as the originals when someone found a suitable chassis and running gear.

 

[jameshilton]

I love the Land Rover at Porthmadog! Some interesting fodder for conversion projects there!

 

[nygma]

I saw this in Sinheim last year. This is gauge 1 (1:32) with ESU loksound and working lights:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51629543@N04/4758132125/in/set-72157624289946615/

 

[Gizzy]

Here's one I made from the blue Bruder digger that comes with the Toytrain sets.

It's not powered, but sits in the PW sidings.

 

[yb281]

Any idea what the red DB machine in the fourth pic is? It looks a bit like a forward control Landie, but then again, maybe not?

I remember seeing the more conventional Landie at Porthmadog last year. Think I've got another pic of that somewhere?

 

[LTfan]

In reply to Mel's note re the strange red vehicle in the fpurth pic:-
I'm a bit shaky on very early VW Beetles but that engine does look a bit like a VW.
The regulator fixed atop the genny and also the genny driven pulley.
Beetles of that era could have a gubbins to accept a starting-handle - that would explain the hole on the front bumper.
Early VW gearboxes I believe could be flipped over if you needed the axle to rotate the opposite way round - so having the engine back-to-front would be easy.

I must get out more.
David

 

[themole]

Yes the DB vehicle has a VW engine. Alyn

 

[Rhinochugger]

Here's another that some may recognise. Made from a Ford Model Y truck, and actually used for passenger services. I think there were only ever two built and this one is actually a replica, but built the same way as the originals when someone found a suitable chassis and running gear.

There were a couple of these on the Irish narrow gauge somewhere - and a bit of a tale about the revenue man ambushing them for taxes on crossing the border

 

[MR SPOCK]

not quite track inspection but interesting,, the blocks on the sides were concrete so the poor beast could handle loaded boxcars​

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[DoctorM]

Or try this way for a closer inspection

 

[stockers]

Magic - that one!

 

[bobg]

Here's another that some may recognise. Made from a Ford Model Y truck, and actually used for passenger services. I think there were only ever two built and this one is actually a replica, but built the same way as the originals when someone found a suitable chassis and running gear.

There were a couple of these on the Irish narrow gauge somewhere - and a bit of a tale about the revenue man ambushing them for taxes on crossing the border

This one is a little further away from here than that though Chugg.

 

[MR SPOCK]

I am sure it can be made to run on G!​

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[tramcar trev]

Here's another that some may recognise. Made from a Ford Model Y truck, and actually used for passenger services. I think there were only ever two built and this one is actually a replica, but built the same way as the originals when someone found a suitable chassis and running gear.

There was (maybe still there) a 1945 Wolsley rail car operating on the Ida bay railway in Tasmania, I traveled in it a few years back....
http://www.railtasmania.com/pres/group.php?id=idabay

 

[trammayo]

Here's another that some may recognise. Made from a Ford Model Y truck, and actually used for passenger services. I think there were only ever two built and this one is actually a replica, but built the same way as the originals when someone found a suitable chassis and running gear.

There were a couple of these on the Irish narrow gauge somewhere - and a bit of a tale about the revenue man ambushing them for taxes on crossing the border

Yes the County Donegal - ex Derwent Valley and regauged from standard (UK) to narrow gauge. I think Colonel Stephens had a couple also.

Mick

 

[Zerogee]

What I love most of all about these amazing contraptions is the way they raise two mechanical fingers to any notions of "Elf and Safety".....

 

[Spule 4]

Why have a truck, bike or tiller, when you can ride in luxury?

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/ukraine01.htm

Well, former Soviet luxury, based on Cadillacs and Packards...

 

[bobg]

Here's another that some may recognise. Made from a Ford Model Y truck, and actually used for passenger services. I think there were only ever two built and this one is actually a replica, but built the same way as the originals when someone found a suitable chassis and running gear.

There was (maybe still there) a 1945 Wolsley rail car operating on the Ida bay railway in Tasmania, I traveled in it a few years back....
http://www.railtasmania.com/pres/group.php?id=idabay

Well; you're on the right end of the globe now! Just the wrong bit of land. It's used as conveyance between the ticket office and the little museum at the other end of the MAIN STREET.