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 Posted - April 19 2021 : 3:22:21 PM
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Though my layout is set in the postwar (late 1940s/early 1950s) era, dump trucks have long lives, especially when a world war makes buying a new one infeasible. I wanted a couple of small dump trucks similar to the Ford model AA seen here:
https://youtu.be/ZLx7O7Wr9rM
I didn't find one, but the Roco Minitanks line had a Russian army truck that, while it differed from the AA looked like a similar sized truck from the same era. Being plastic, it was not hard to modify into a small dump truck.
One dump truck is at a dumping ramp for loading gravel into rail cars. I saw such an arrangement at Potosi Station in Wisconsin where a quarry is a little way up a valley from the BNSF line along the Mississippi River.
The other little dump truck belongs to the coal yard. I had a coal truck, but it was the kind you'd use to deliver coal to the railroad from the mine, and much too big for delivering coal to homes. Here, an outgoing load of coal is being weighed:
I did this years ago and didn't photograph the steps, but it was a simple matter of cutting thin plastic into the parts of a dump bed and gluing them together with solvent cement.
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Posted - April 19 2021 : 3:35:54 PM
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cool
use the box for a shed 
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Posted - April 19 2021 : 6:06:48 PM
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Whoa, that is one cool vignette. That amazing truck definitely has
a raw bone back woods feel.
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Posted - April 19 2021 : 6:16:03 PM
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quote:use the box for a shed
Originally posted by microbusss - April 19 2021 : 3:35:54 PM
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I've probably still got one or both of them. I should hunt them up. They're small enough to fit into an already crowded layout, somewhere.
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Posted - April 19 2021 : 6:22:52 PM
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Several towns in my area are still running 80s Ford L-series dump trucks for Public Works Service. That's around 30-40 years. I'd say your doing great with that little gem of a truck. Looks great!
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 Posted - April 19 2021 : 6:59:35 PM
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Very realistic Don. The vehicle has that simple nostalgic look.
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Posted - April 19 2021 : 8:37:45 PM
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Nice!
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Posted - April 20 2021 : 10:13:54 PM
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Thanks for all the kind words.
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Posted - April 20 2021 : 10:23:00 PM
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Yes, really a neat looking old truck!
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Posted - April 21 2021 : 09:19:04 AM
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Nice conversion and good looking scenes. you don't see those Roco vehicles around anymore.
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