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Herb Kephart
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Juergen-
The only picture of a tram car, made into a railbus that I remember seeing, was one that the 3 ft gauge East Broad Top Railroad bought from the Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. It was made from a double truck car and I believe that only one poor photo survived of it. The EBT numbered it M2, and tried running it on the relativity level Shade Gap branch but it was stunningly unsuccessful and was soon disposed of (junked?) It did have a car or truck hood and radiator sticking out one end. Since there was no wye or turntable at Shade Gap it must have suffered severe overheating backing on the return trip to Orbisonia.
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Dave D
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Hi Juergen,
I don't have any photos of prototypical rail buses like this, but I have seen many modeled as you are suggesting.
Many have used the Bachmann rail ruck in On30 to power it.
I think what you have in mind, is very much like the one Robn30 did in this thread.
http://freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=1913&forum_id=46
I looked at the model through the link you provided.
It looks like you can make it work, by removing one of the vestibules on one end, leaving the floor intact and mounting the truck cab on that.
However, you will need to cut the power bogey in half if possible, leaving the geared set of wheels in place, and moving the un-geared set forward.
That way, it will look better with the wheels in the wheel wells of the truck cab , as well as preventing the cab from swinging out away from the rail centers while moving though curves, which is what that 4 wheeled power bogey will cause.
You could also use a set of wheels from a small boxcar or something like that for the wheel set in front.
Either way, I think you will need to split that power bogey, and I like the single pair of wheels idea best along with trimming away some of that bracing between the wheels on the cars carriage......Just my opinion.
I know this photo edit is way more than crude but you should be able so see what I am talking about with it.
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Herb,
it don't need to be a railbus built from a tramcar in special. I want to use the tram kit just because it's there and I don't need a tram on my layout. I found a similar example on the website of EBT you mentioned and I remember now that you had it in your old avatar.
May there be some further pictures?
@Dave,
thank you very much for your constructive support. You are really good in sketching.
You are thinking of taking the whole truck or car cab instead of only the motor hood? That's an alternative, that I didn't thought about before.
The kit I have is without drive, so I have to built an own motion concept anyway.
As it is a kit, I hope I can easily place the imitated axle boxes in the desired position, as you showed in your picture.
Yes, Robn30's railbus is a further example of my intended vehicle, thank's.
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W C Greene
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Dadgum, Herbie-that is some incredibly detailed modeling! You might need to put more detail inside the model, you know how those nitpickers feel about "details". Very realistic work, you'll make a finescaler yet!
Juergen-I think the tramcar would make an excellent bus. That's just the kind of thing a narrow gauge railroad would do. I am sure that somewhere there were/are prototypes...or maybe your model will become the prototype. I have an old 1:32 Airfix London double deck bus that might end up with flanged wheels, the "second story" might have to go due to close clearances. Best of luck with your project, I am wanting to see more.
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Toeffelholm
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Thank you Herb, these are awesome pics!
Those details are always very useful.
Woodie, yes my models are anyway exact replicas of my fictional prototypes 
But I loke to collect detail inspiration from several prototypes.
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W C Greene
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Juergen-that Col. Stephens Model T bus is extremely neat. As I look at it, I see that a somewhat reasonable model of this could be built in 1:32/1:35 scale using the old Airfix London bus and a Lindberg Model T. I have both of these kits and when I take a break from running trains (maybe next Winter) I just may bash them together. Thanks for the inspiration. Woodie
Here's a photo of an old Airfix kit without the 2nd deck. It does have the "general" looks.
Last edited on 30 Apr 2010 10:38 pm by W C Greene
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