Rebuilding and digitalizing a brass gasoline rail coach

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Here a picture before I will give an answer to you, Andrew.



These are all my three railbusses and they all have a real background in original.
The smallest yellow bus is pictured and described in the 1922 Car Builders’ cyclopedia and it is called a Gasoline driven motor rail car, built by Brill – unfortunately no erecting year is available.
The brass model (left) is very similarly to your model but there is a big difference. My model has a four wheel rear truck and yours has only a single axle at rear; however both are built by the Mack motor Co. Your model looks very, very close to pictures and drawings in the 1922 Car Builders’ cyclopedia again and it is lettered for NYNH&H as class 9000. This should be a good idea to model a rail bus of this railroad.

This is a few first information - more about the original rail busses than your model. A next post will folow.