Steel Mill Transfercar

[steve4]

a friend of mine is building a huge Steel Mill plant on his layout and he did ask me if I could build him some Transfercars for the plant. he provided some pictures of different Transfercars and I started to design and build something similar in N scale...

my design is loosely based on this Transfercar...


so far I did choose the drive, changed the truck sideframes and the wheels, built one side of the Transfercar and started the tray...

drive donor was a Kato Budd RDC... (shorten the drive)


changed the truck sideframes and the wheel size...


drive with new trucks...


the base for the cabs are Atlas VO-1000 parts...


the steps are also from an Atlas VO-1000...


some 'detail parts' added...


some more details done including the handrails, Z scale couplers and debris kicker...




the tray is takeing shape...

[m a y o r 79]

Wow looks like a tank on rails! Cool prototype, your model is coming along nicely.