Can anyone identify this mini railcar?

[Carleroo]

I am thinking of scratch building a railway car similar to this. Can anyone identify if this is based on a real car or something out of someone's imagination? I have scratch built a caboose and other projects, and am now looking for something a bit simpler. Can anyone cast some light on this? I found it on Google but with no information. Thanks, Carl

 

[Paul M]

I think it's been shown on this forum before

 

[dunnyrail]

Tis a little critter much loved in smaller scales for 7mm on 16.5 track using a bachman chassis. Also been done in HO as a standard gauge beast. As for prototype, hm…. Try googling pictures of rail critters.

 

[Rhinochugger]

I am thinking of scratch building a railway car similar to this. Can anyone identify if this is based on a real car or something out of someone's imagination? I have scratch built a caboose and other projects, and am now looking for something a bit simpler. Can anyone cast some light on this? I found it on Google but with no information. Thanks, CarlView attachment 335122

My suspicion is that it is not a model of an actual prototype.

I believe the Banta Crewcab kit was also freelance, but probably a bit more plausible -seen in the background below

 

[Carleroo]

Tis a little critter much loved in smaller scales for 7mm on 16.5 track using a bachman chassis. Also been done in HO as a standard gauge beast. As for prototype, hm…. Try googling pictures of rail critters.

Thanks!! I found info and photos.

 

[PhilP]

Thanks!! I found info and photos.

Care to share?

Thanks,
PhilP

 

[Rhinochugger]

Thanks!! I found info and photos.

It looks quite twee, but you need to do a reality check with rough dimensions. The side door emulates a sliding door on a full-size combine, but where will it slide in order to open?

Once you have a scale driver in the seat, how much room is there for anything else? Certainly, the Banta crewcab would only just about six scale workers and a few tools, and they'd be sitting quite cosily next to each other

 

[Carleroo]

Care to share?

Thanks,
PhilP

I found this:

Industrial Locomotives AKA "Critters" - scratchbuilding - iModeler

By Mike Maynard - In the real world of railroading there are three levels of diesel locomotives; the high horsepower locomotives produced by General Electric and Electro Motive, the medium 2000 HP units, followed by heavy duty switch engines in the 100-125 ton range. And then there are critters...

imodeler.com

 

[Carleroo]

It looks quite twee, but you need to do a reality check with rough dimensions. The side door emulates a sliding door on a full-size combine, but where will it slide in order to open?

Once you have a scale driver in the seat, how much room is there for anything else? Certainly, the Banta crewcab would only just about six scale workers and a few tools, and they'd be sitting quite cosily next to each other

Thanks for the info. I may decide to build something a bit larger so it can accommodate a bit more interior space. I have also made a few locomotives and train cars at 1:32 scale (all static models), so I may decide to do this in the same scale. I have also built a lot of trams in 1:24, so perhaps that scale.

 

[vsmith]

Kitbash on a Bachmann Davenport, nice little Critter

 

[Rhinochugger]

Kitbash on a Bachmann Davenport, nice little Critter

Yep - over here there's a chassis manufacturer (Essel Engineering) that makes a replacement for the Bachmann Davenport, so I bought one of them, bought the Banta crewcab kit which was a body replacement for the Davenport and, hey presto

 

[Fred2179G]

From the Banta Modelworks website. I have one in blue.