Model Railways
Novelty or Oddity
This is a selection from my locos, that I refer to as novelties, although you may think them oddities.
These first two locos are fictitious.
G scale - Aristo Craft LIL' Eggliner
No proper scale (but runs on OO track) - Bachmann London Underground Ernie1
Private companies often made snow ploughs (snowplows) out of old left over bits of locos.2 examples:
G scale LGB - Deutsche Bahn Snowplow
G scale LGB/Bachmann - Snowplow.
Inspection vehicles.
As with snow ploughs companies utilised all types of vehicles for track inspection and to just get around. Here are 4 examples:
G scale LGB - Hand powered
Bachmann HO scale - Gandy Dancer.
More conventional vehicles.
G scale USA Trains - Speeder.
G scale Brekina - VW Van (railbike)
There are of course many, many more, there doesn't seem to be any criteria for these vehicles other than, 'they had to ride the rails'.
Published 17/01/2020