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Railtruck for the Durango & Jasper

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#101

I was poking around to see what other Mack railtruck pictures were out there and ran across this one, which is “spiritually” exactly the kind of look I’m going for:

Notably including canvas drop sides for the passenger area. Gotta do that (was on my list already but nice to see somebody else thought of it too)!

[edited to post photos that are actually viewable…]

#102

Come on Jim I know you can do better:

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#103

Sigh. OK, I worked around it and found the original post for the 2 photos that are now edited into my original here: [link]

#104

I’ve got to say that your workaround was well worth the wait Jim. I’ll look forward to your interpretation of the posted pics.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#105

Spent the morning doing a few things:

  • Attached the lights (still need to finalize the wires)
  • Added a driver and a few boxes of beans in the cab (driver went through major surgery removing parts of feet and rear end, poor guy)
  • Added wood support for gas tank. Still going to re-3D-print the gas tank and paint it, so this one is just for test fitting.

Supporting pics:

Some comments:

  • Yes, I know the gas tank is too close to the engine cover. Oh well
  • The driver is from a stash of figures I purchased from Rick Marty. More to come from that stash for the passengers that will be riding along

Cheers!

[edited to fix a typo]

#106

this just keeps getting mo awesomer

#107

I am thinking you need to paint hot rod flames on the side :wink:

#108

Given the state of the driver’s rear end and the copious supply of beans, that may be taken care of in a different way :slight_smile: but I will duly note your suggestion (where’s that round file?)…

#109

Ya done good, Jim. With that radiator placement, the driver can heat him up a can of beans while riding the rails (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#110

Looking good Jim, great transformation.

#111

“With that radiator placement, the driver can heat him up a can of beans while riding the rails.”

AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaand that way he will never run out of GAS!!

Weaving, dodging, and plugging my nose, David Meashey

#112

Been working on a cowcatcher for the front of the railtruck, using this image as an inspiration: [link] (sorry, it’s a stock photo and not embeddable).

First, I cogitated and asked the evening chat guys for suggestions. Hollywood suggested using brass tubes, smashing the ends. After experimenting that seemed good. Fred suggested that most people make the rod diameter too large, but I’m afraid I only have 3/64 brass tubes on hand and wanted to make progress here, so I am afraid I will not be able to be as thin as would be good (3/64 is about 1 1/8" in the prototype which is a hefty steel rod).

After all that thinking I ended up making a jig so I could build this thing:

And most of the way there:

And mostly primed:

Tomorrow I’ll get it painted and installed and then figure out what else I can do in my precious time off here…

Cheers!

#113

Awesome, Jim!!!

#114

Nice work, Jim. Nothing wrong with making something extra strong, it’ll just better protect the front of the truck.

#115

Video for those that like that kind of thing:

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#116

Jim,

This 'truck is just awesome!

Eric

#117

Looks like you nailed it again Jim. Size on the tubing appears spot on. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#118

that is so cool Jim. Your tastes and mine in railroading are so similiar. I love this build

#119

Before painting the cowcatcher, I decided to build the roof rack/ladder, because they should be painted the same color and I am too lazy to clean my airbrush twice…

This is the inspiration for the roof rack, from Ray Dunakin (check the first post in this topic for the link to his awesome rail car):

Boy, was this a pain in the a$$. I clearly need to up my soldering/jig game because I had to make up some new cusswords this morning. And I’m not convinced I like what I have.

I made a jig to bend the brass rod to form the main storage rack:

And the rack after soldering. The thing I’m not thinking is correct is the vertical separation of the rack itself (it is too “tall”). But I’m too mad to try to fix it :-). It seems so effortless when Ray does it!

And I’m too busy the rest of the day to finish. Oh well, made some significant progress this week.

Cheers!

#120

Nice work Jim!

I feel that brass is an ideal material to work with as it is so strong, yet can be bent to the shape you want. I really like your use of jigs for assembly as well!

For those of you that have not yet tried it, the soldering is REALLY NOT THAT BAD!!!