If one car is fun to build, how about two? The author had extra Roundhouse combines in his “hobby shop on a shelf” and built a pair of cars for his HO scale mining and logging theme layout. The first carbody generally retained the arrangement of the Round-
tanks and pieces salvaged from the doodlebug and combine. For less than $60.00 worth of models and parts my road had its railcar, prop- erly carrying the number 1 on its sides. This led to building car No. 2. There will always be a piece of mo- tive power or rolling stock that you
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house body, while the second involved more cutting and splicing of the walls. A cut-down mechanism from a Bachmann gas elec- tric was used to power No. 1 (below, top photo). Car No. 2 rides on a shortened chassis from a Bachmann Brill streetcar (bottom).
Overland combine was modified to ac- cept the Bachmann chassis. I kept the rear platform and steps, but again re- moved those on the baggage end. This time I cut things apart more and rearranged the windows and side doors with added space (strips of car siding) between them. The carbody
length. As on No. 1, I made up a muf- fler for the exhaust and found a single bell horn for the roof.
The underbody details came from my junk box, but the pilot is another Preci- sion Scale Company part. After washing the body it received a Pullman Green with black roof paint
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can’t purchase. As my modeling skills grew I began to see kitbashing ideas virtually everywhere I l
ooked on the
hobby shop shelves. Motor car No. 2 was no different.
More than anything, I wanted to build this rail car to see what could come out of it. I started with an HO scale Bachmann trolley car chassis, cutting off the end pieces. The under- frame of yet another Roundhouse
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looks like it came from the same shop, which it did; it is not a twin, but close. Details added to No. 2’s body include grab rails, Grandt Line windows on the ends, a scratchbuilt radiator, and a bell, pilot, and headlight from Preci- sion Scale Company. I found I needed to add reinforcing strips inside the roof to strengthen it. As before, the duckbill roof ends were removed, and the roof was cut down to fit the new body
job, what has become (with these two cars), the company colors. A little extra weight was needed on
No. 2 to insure good performance, but that was it. Both models have DCC de- coders, which were easy to install. With only a few evenings at the workbench and some careful cutting and fitting I had a nice pair of gas mechanical rail- cars for my layout. You can probably do the same thing in as much time.
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