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Hi Guys --
Was looking through the web site of my local hobby shop this morning, and spotted this interesting little gasoline powered engine:
Apparently a pair of these German-built oddities were used for switching in Norway too.
Here is a link to a page that presents the use of such locomotives on the Finnish railroads:
http://www.elisanet.fi/~g621741/WWV/kiskok/kisko.htm
Too bad they are totally out of character for my modeling subject - they look pretty cool, in a butt ugly way :-)
Grin,
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Ummmm....you're right...they're...well let's just say they're not the most glamorous engines I've seen. But they'd look pretty neat running inside a factory or along a dock!
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They look like out houses.
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Had a quick google - seems like they had quite a few nicknames - "the phone booth", "the outhouse", "the louse", "the wardrobe" :-)
Here is another oddity - known as "the suitcase" - it was one of 20 luggage cars built between 1950 and 1953
It was apparently used along with diesel rail busses type BM87:
Smile,
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It wouldn't surprise me to see Doctor Who jump out of one of those.
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Interesting - reading the page they do the same thing Trackmobiles do - lift up on the coupled car to transfer more weight to the wheels of the tractor, allowing them to move more cars than would otherwise be possible.
And Nachoman - read down a bit on the page Stein linked, there's reference to a similar German 'loco' and I think you'll like the name.
Police call box with blue flashing light on a Bachmann power truck, anyone? Might be a problem with the blue light though, if that's going to be translated as the equivalent of a blue flag.
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That thing is as cool as sliced bread!!
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I really like the little guys in the first photo. Seems like the European version of the trackmobile.
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