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Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... :-) - steinjr - 05-07-2011 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, Stein Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - Herc Driver - 05-07-2011 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! Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - nachoman - 05-07-2011 They look like out houses. Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - steinjr - 05-07-2011 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, Stein Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - Gary S - 05-07-2011 It wouldn't surprise me to see Doctor Who jump out of one of those. Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - rrinker - 05-07-2011 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. --Randy Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - Sumpter250 - 05-07-2011 It's like a "Deli" style locomotive....the "Slice-o-cab Switcher" Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - iis612 - 05-07-2011 That thing is as cool as sliced bread!! Matt Re: Oddities on the track : "phone boot" switching loco .... - Ralph - 05-07-2011 I really like the little guys in the first photo. Seems like the European version of the trackmobile. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.trackmobile.com/">http://www.trackmobile.com/</a><!-- m -->