03-31-2014, 12:55 PM
My thought would be to find a set of locomotive drive wheels....or a set of large diameter, steam loco, trailing wheels....and reconstruct the front loader tires around them.
If the front loader is "riding on concrete ( rails recessed )", perhaps small, "retractable", "leading and trailing wheels" could be used as "electrical pick-up /guide" wheels.
(( a vehicle, like that Bachmann truck, would have normal tires, and guide wheels to keep it on the rails. ))
If your front loader wheels are wide set enough to run outside the rails, you could hide the "pick-up wheels", or "contacts" just inside the rubber tires, where they couldn't be that well seen.
If the front loader is "riding on concrete ( rails recessed )", perhaps small, "retractable", "leading and trailing wheels" could be used as "electrical pick-up /guide" wheels.
(( a vehicle, like that Bachmann truck, would have normal tires, and guide wheels to keep it on the rails. ))
If your front loader wheels are wide set enough to run outside the rails, you could hide the "pick-up wheels", or "contacts" just inside the rubber tires, where they couldn't be that well seen.
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The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!