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Parts finally came in so I finished building these six vintage cars as a cargo train for that Swiss Crocodile. There’s three box cars, a lumber gondola, a hot chocolate transport (I run a dry railroad), and a famous green caboose. They’re based on actual vintage rolling stock from the region as well as old O-scale examples that could be found. Despite being single fixed axle at both ends, the cars do work on standard Lego curve and switch track, because they’re spaced apart like the old Lego train sets. I’m half tempted to run them in my backyard as a makeshift garden railway. 🙂
Cool trains! I never realized how useful those profile bricks could be using the non-brick side. They work perfectly for this purpose. 🙂
Beautiful! On the real cars what is the vertical gray beam visible on both the gondola and hot chocolate transport?
Yeah, I agree there’s quite a lot of potential for those kind of specialty bricks to be used for other purposes. The yellow one brought back nightmares as it uses 4070 headlight bricks, which I used a ton for my Kings Cross station overhead barrel vaulting. LOL
Thanks. That vertical grey thing represents the typical narrow shed built over the brake wheel. Apparently it gets quite cold and snow in the Alps so the Swiss build enclosures over the brake control rather than let it be exposed to the elements. A couple of people in the train groups though it was a convenient outhouse. heheheheh
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