Hi-rail trucks and equipment

[grumpygrady]

Originally Posted by Espeefan

As a railfan, I find these trucks really interesting as well. I've never thought about building one, simply because there are no affordable, nor readily available model trains in a scale that matches the typical Tamiya or Wedico trucks, so one would have to be happy driving it around, off the rails. But in my opinion, it would be kind of like having a wheel loader, but not being able to use it to load trucks. I think you would be missing out on some 'play factor' by not being able to run a hi-rail truck on the rails too. Never the less, they are neat, and I've only ever seen one scale RC build of a hi-rail truck.

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/sho...hlight=hi-rail

That old Kenworth COE is definitely interesting. You don't see those around much, let alone as a hi-rail truck.

all he needs is a 7/8ths railroad and he could use it ,we use g scale track and make 1 1/13.7 scale bodys on it

[sparkycuda]

I've been looking into track for a 1:14 roadrailer I'm building. The 7/8" scale is very close, but everything I've seen is narrow gauge. Not something that would work with the normal hi-railer stuff made for standard gauge. I'm thinking of making some 1:14 standard gauge panel track for my roadrailer to change from road-to-rail and back, but an operating oval and some side tracks would be awesome. Just have to build a std-gauge loco!

Ken

[sparkycuda]

I've been looking into track for a 1:14 roadrailer I'm building. The 7/8" scale is very close, but everything I've seen is narrow gauge. Not something that would work with the normal hi-railer stuff made for standard gauge. I'm thinking of making some 1:14 standard gauge panel track for my roadrailer to change from road-to-rail and back, but an operating oval and some side tracks would be awesome. Just have to build a std-gauge loco!

Ken