Crane or derrick car for logging train

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a crane car or derrick car to use on a logging consist?
Ive got three skeleton cars and three shay type logging cars on the way and I've tried to find a crane that looks like a logging crane in a lot of the mail order houses but all I seem to find are heavy, large way to modern looking,
Is this something I'll have to cobble up, or is there something available that I'm just plain missing?

Thanks,

blabree

[cnw1995]

blabree, I don't know of something that is ready-made in our scale, but you could kitbash something from your favorite photo, starting with a flat car or even a pair of trucks. The logging cranes i've seen - of the drag sort mostly- are nifty critters - with steam boilers, and all sorts of modelgenic items.

[Frank53]

would something like this do it?

[Frank53]

[Frank53]

you may also want to browse throught this site:

http://www.valleymodeltrains.com/

which could take days - they have an incredible amount of material listed on their site.

[Anonymous]

I wish somebody made a Barnhart loader kit. It seems I will have to do it myself.