While not specifically model railroading, I found this rather an interesting facet of the RC hobby. Maybe these are available in an appropriate scale to add to your railroad.
I think this might come under the heading of “boys and their toys”, but who am I to say anything since I play with trains. (No offense to any females intended)
Ive been fascinated by these things for ages. They’re expensive, but look like fun.
This one could be a ballast plant
All the operations guys will be salivating over this. 
You should invite them to come do some real work on your railroad.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
There is usually a ““Toy Truck and Construction”” convention in Indianapolis, Indiana during the month of August… At that convention, they usually have a large room set up for them to run their 1/16th radio controlled vehicles…
They have roads, bridges, and such set up… They don’t use dirt, but use crushed rubber bits that looks like coal and load it into dump trucks, with various type loaders… Move it to a different location and deliver the loads…
One year, they were doing a log of logging stuff, and had a G-scale train running log cars back and forth… They had done some scratch work on a bachmann 44 tonner, to make it look more like a 1/16th scale loco…
Was interesting to watch, all the lights worked on the vehicles… Dump trucks were run by hydraulics… The most interesting part was, when a hose would break, and the vehicle started spewing hydraulic fluid all over…
I’d love one of these
http://store.rc4wd.com/114-Scale-Earth-Mover-870K-Hydraulic-Wheel-Loader_p_3828.html
of course, then I’d need the trucks to dump into
http://store.rc4wd.com/114-8x8-Armageddon-Hydraulic-Dump-Truck-FMX_p_5307.html
And then maybe a bulldozer to move material around
http://store.rc4wd.com/114-Scale-DXR2-Hydraulic-Earth-Dozer_p_4768.html
Okay…$3,100 and $450.00 to ship. For the wheel loader alone. The dump truck is only $2,100 and $250.00 shipping, dozer $2,700 and $350 shipping.
Okay, no problem, you have permission to buy these, but only if I get to weather them for you.
John Passaro said:
Okay…$3,100 and $450.00 to ship. For the wheel loader alone. The dump truck is only $2,100 and $250.00 shipping, dozer $2,700 and $350 shipping.
Okay, no problem, you have permission to buy these, but only if I get to weather them for you.
I need a fundraiser…
Go Fund Me; Unemployed Earth Mover, looking to start small.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
And who said hobbies have to be expensive? (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Okay, after “wasting” a half hour watching various videos, including a huge wind turbine being built, it makes our snow plowing videos look, well, amateurish.
Dang, these videos make me want to build my brass version of my snow plow, and make it fully functional. If they can have working hydraulics, than sure I can figure out how to make servos work, or pnuematics…
I have spent hours watching videos like these and I am still amazed! Think I’ll stick with the stadium trucks we have. Have a cold one, race the trucks around until we break something, run the battery down or the kids want to run theirs and we go have another cold one!
Steve
