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Crane or derrick car for logging train

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 5, 2006 2:44 PM
I wish somebody made a Barnhart loader kit. It seems I will have to do it myself.
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Posted by Frank53 on Friday, May 5, 2006 8:46 AM
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.
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Posted by Frank53 on Friday, May 5, 2006 8:43 AM

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Posted by Frank53 on Friday, May 5, 2006 8:35 AM


would something like this do it?


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Posted by cnw1995 on Friday, May 5, 2006 8:27 AM
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.

Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.

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Crane or derrick car for logging train
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 5, 2006 7:46 AM
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

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