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what has become of that little backwoods railroad you started with? Obviously a secret testing ground for all sorts of anti-aircraft weaponry plus arcane almost-British jet planes....my personal conspiracy advisor says that plane in question was flown to the UK after they had tried maple syrup in place of kerosene!
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Ken C
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First up, my first Trestrol conversion, based on a 2Ft 6In gauge car built for the FCA(B)&C to haul equipment from the coast to a Copper mine and smelter. split two cars length wise and inserted a spacer between the two center frames. Width was 1.75 IN, should have made it 2In wide.
Load is a recycled water filter, representing a Bruckner batch rotating furnace circa 1900.
Ramp photos to follow
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Attached a photo of ramp, another to follow
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Another photo top side.
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Top view of DC flat car.
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Hi Ken 
Thanks for the photos ... Very nice converting !
The car & load look excellent.
I like the loading ramp bash, from the plane catapult car as well.
That's a very rare BATTLE SPACE ! item you hacked to pieces there Ken !!
My 2 searchlight Trestrols both have 'extra bits' moulded in to them, for fixing the generator & cabin etc.
A nightmare to cut out & even then, you would not have the nice diagonal-braces there afterwards.
I may have to surface a possible conversion with tread plate.
I would like to transport a Caterpillar D7 or Russian ChTZ S-65 tractor.
They are about 70mm wide in 1:35
I'm not sure if a 'real' 2-footer could even move a Cat. like this ?
70mm is exactly 8' in 1:35 scale, sounds like that is how wide your prototype was.
I guess your crawlers are a similar width, ie. around 8' or perhaps wider ?
I tried a basic Trestrol with regular Tri-ang archbars to see how 4-wheel trucks might look as well.
The Trestrol actually looked pretty cool with 4-wheel Tri-ang diecast passenger trucks fitted.
Mmm ... A tricky one for me.
It looks really BIG ! compared to my other cars ... But that's the whole point I guess.
Si.
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View forward not something considered by builders.
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