Ladies and Gentlemen,
Would anybody have pictures and details of the above ?
Over here in England, UK.
We are watching on tv the first series of "Railroad Alaska".
I am interested in Hi-rail vehicles, especially "The Tundra Truck".
If anybody can help ?
Thank you
Garf
Greetings from across the pond.
Garf,
Try looking on E-bay from a seller named wreckmodels. He's Canadian and a heck of a nice fellow. The truck you admire is cast in HO resin by this seller. At this time he doesn't have any for sale but if you ask. He might cast one up.
I think the real truck is made by Brandt. Might have spelled it wrong,dunno. Google it for more info.
Hope that helps.
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
Is this the truck your locking for Garfield?
http://www.alaskarails.org/potw-archive/2000/JC-tundra.html
Mike.
My You Tube
Well, I'am guessing it's an earlier Freightliner, maybe late 90's ? or early 2000's ? If a member in here named Zstripe (Frank), checks in this thread, he'll be able to tell us.
The crane can be had as a seperate model, from Herpa, different types of jaws or grapples available. And, I seen a hi-rail kit from a seller on Shapeways, but they can be scratch built.
Also, check out the site :
http://www.1-87vehicles.org/
You have different search options for vehicle type, model, and purpose.
Mike
Garfield1437Mike Thats the truck. Thank you. Do you know what the vehicle type is?
Some ''blokes'' calling Me? LOL......Looks to Me like it is a 1984 White daycab, before Volvo took White over, specially made truck for the Railroad, one reason why the truck name is not on the grill.
I had a Volvo White in 1989, but they still called it White, before Volvo fully took over. Mine was a 1985 White integral sleeper. Wasn't a bad truck, but underpowered for My taste. It was a used fleet truck, that I repainted. Got it for a pretty good price, that's why I bought it, I did run it for a couple of yrs. though.
To My knowledge, I have not seen any models of that and many other trucks. About the hardest part I see in scratching one would be getting the right shape for the one piece fiberglass hood, the bed parts could be bashed, from a boom truck.
Send Me an e-mail Brent, if You want to discuss it further.
Take Care!
Frank
Life Member ATHS Windy City Chapter (American Truck Historical Society).
You might consider fudging a little on the truck and use a Ford flat bed boom truck. Just add gates to the sides wheels for rail and a few more goodies.....check out the link.
http://scale-structures.com/af7066
They are Pewter kits......I have built quite a few of them over the yr's.
I was hoping you would find this thread Frank. I just Googled "1984 White day cab", and bingo! Thats the truck. That two piece windshield thew me off.
The OP hasn't posted anything since, but he has posted on another thread about Alaska RR hi-rail vehicles, hoping to find someone who has modeled this truck.
There is a modeler on the 1/87 vehicle site that built a simular Alaska truck, thats why I gave the link. Besides, that site is just cool to look at! I figured I'd see some of your creations in there!
Mike,
The OP, sent Me an e-mail and asked if I would look at the thread......We've been Mates (friends) for a number of yrs. now. I said ''blokes'' for a private joke that He would understand.
You won't find many of My trucks on other sites anymore. It got to the point that I was spending more time on the computer and not getting anything done. You will find some on the Model Freightways site in their Mag. but that's about it....Forgot..FSM site, but I'm more of a lurker now.
BTW: Just for giggles....My White Freightliner 1969 Double wide cab over that I rebuilt in 1981, they only made 50 of this particular truck. Mine was a Mayflower Van lines truck....remenber them? Lot of History concerning White trucks.