Enjoy building small crew car based on industrial wagon chassis. It can
be used as visitor's coach on your sightseeing railway.
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| Cabin box is loaded on Bachmann V side dump chassis |
Bachmann On30 V side dump car is nice for small industrial operation. However,
it is still large. I imagined that it could be right if its chassis is
used for some other body. I removed framer holding dump bucket and placed
a cabin box on the chassis. This is an one evening project. Cabin box is
made by styrene sheet, and added hinge and latch detail for door on one
end,
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Round roof type |
Peaked roof type |
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| MDC HO Fox truck is used for underframe. |
These crew cars are based on wagon chassis described in my book. MDC Roundhouse HO Fox truck is fixed on floorboard. It looks like a rigid 2 axle frame. Any arch bar type truck will substitute it.
A plan is shown here.
There are two body types. (In some photo, open cars based on same chassis
are also shown beside them.) One is a round roof type. I used Evergreen
V-groove sheets for body siding. Time-consuming grooving work can be avoided
but aligining shoud be careful when using cutting template. Another one
is a peaked roof type. I added brake handle and entrance chain as details.
May 2007, Nobuo Koizumi