Lil Big Hauler Combine Car Into Railbus Bash As part of the ongoing evolution of my roster I have been trying to find ways to upgrade older models that for what ever reason just never worked as well as I would have liked. With the main layout becoming a harbor transfer layout, I have pieces that are now extraneous without any place on either the harbor layout or are too big for the pizza. This was one of them, a railtruck bashed from HLW parts and a NWSL Magic Carpet drive: Its track powered but it was too large for the Pizza but there is no place for it on the Harbor, so its has lingered in limbo as to what it should become, I wanted a passenger railbus but it had to fit the pizza. From the first moment I saw the new Lil Big Hauler lineup I was certain the combine car would make a nifty railbus and, come a lucky low bid on a brand new Lil Big Hauler passenger train set on Evilbay and low and behold I had the perfect base for bashing the a new railbus. I started by carefully cutting up one end and re-positioning the two end walls. I had to reposition the body forward, so the engine hood got moved up, otherwise the chassis is unchanged. Add some LGB passenger car seats, a couple figures inside and the final results: BTW Pollyscale DRGW Yellow is almost an exact match for the Bmann plastic color, still searching for a few finishing touches but its 99% there.
PS yes it fits on the pizza ... B A R E L Y !
Have fun with your trains
that is awesome! I am interested in doing a rail bus myself excuse me but I dont know the acronyms you used what was the primary chassis again?
I do have one problem wouldnt the wood stove be in the back? but that is beautiful
When I read about the evils of drinking I quit reading.
Nice Bash, you out did yourself with this one.
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
HLW hartland locomotive works American G scale manufacturer www.h-l-w.com
nwsl North West Short Line www.nwsl.com/
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yes thank you i figured it out after a bit felt a little silly
After my NWSL magic carpet drive bit the big one at the BTS I was fishing around for ideas on how to fix it, after considering a HLW wadling goose drive and a couple other candidates that panned out, I settled on what was a pretty fast conversion, I took the USA Speeder drive off another project, and with a minimum tussle replaced the front truck of this, the rear is now a standard metal wheel but I have to eventually replace it with a BB unit to cut friction as these are already pretty low power.
Thats OK all it has to do is pull itself around the pizza.
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