Rail Tractor Enterprise

[altterrain]

My second 7/8's loco project is a rail tractor. It is basically a Bachmann Dizzy truck with the body of a modified diecast 1/16 scale bulldozer. The 45 tonner Dizzy truck is unmodified except for wiring it to use with a battery trailer car. It will be a simple battery power trailer car using the same speed controller I used in my rail truck. The diecast dozer body was chopped, channeled and widened. The seat was also redone and relocated.






Details added - air tank, muffler, foot and hand controls, grab rails and coupler pockets cast by Bill Martinsen.






The rail tractor painted and grunged. I still have to finish up the electronics. The trailer battery flat car will hold two crates - one for the battery pack (as seen in the pic) and the second for the speed controller and DPDT c/o switch.






-Brian

[Paul W.]

Nice job!

Hope to see it at York next year!

[altterrain]

Rail tractor Enterprise has been finished up -

The electronics, battery, speed control, sound card and speaker hidden in a couple of crates -



a few pics -







and a minute long video -

Ridin' the Rails with JeanLuc

-Brian

[Paul W.]

Nice job Brian!

What sound unit did you use in that? Looks and sounds great

[altterrain]

Thanks Paul. The sound is from an ITT helper diesel sound card - http://ittproducts.com/hqpage_2008.htm with just a 2 inch speaker. Simple and cheap but great for critters.

-Brian