Road-to rail-to road ( RoadRail Trucks)

[McColm]

Thanks for that

[PR19_Kit]

I knew I'd got a piccie of my Roadrailer train somewhere...........

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The loco is an Airfix Drewry Class 03, that was a pretty close match to the Pressed Steel yard shunter. The next vehicle to the left is the match truck which carried the front of the lead RoadRailer, and every other vehicle hooked onto the one in front with it's nose weight being carried by the previous vehicle. The lead vehicle in the train is the standard BR RoadRailer, one of 50 'production' vehicles, the second is the proposed, but not built, RoadRailer mineral wagon, and the last is the RoadRailer flat, of which we built two but never fitted the wheels. The second car it's carrying is a model of my Hillman Super Imp at the time. 

The truck is the Leyland Hippo that came in the complete kit and it's bringing in one of the two prototypes, which had flat roofs and was about 2'6" shorter than the production vehicles. The Prestcold titles were hand painted  they took for EVER!

[Rheged]

Triang Minic Motorway from the 1960's    http://www.minicmotorways.org.uk/Roadrailer.htm   The site is mildly entertaining.

[PR19_Kit]

Good heavens, I've never heard of them, the Minic Roadrailers I mean. Oddly I saw some Minic Motorway layouts at the UK Slot Festival last weekend too.

[Later] Not quite sure how it happened, but my post with the pic of the Roadrailer model I built has copied itself to later in the thread, very strange.

There are some odd things going on here of late................

[Rheged]

Good heavens, I've never heard of them, the Minic Roadrailers I mean. Oddly I saw some Minic Motorway layouts at the UK Slot Festival last weekend too.

I had a Minic Motorway layout in about 1960........................I think it's still sealed in a box in our garage. I know my boys played with it in the 1990's.   I really must look for it and see if it still works