Stronach Dutton, Road Rail Tractor in 1:76

[otherplanet]

I appreciate that this is being a bit cheeky, as I have been sharing the build of this project in the "Radio Control" section.
But I realise there is not so much cross over between the readers of the threads and thought this might be of interest to the "Road Vehicles" group as well.

I have been working on a representation of the Stronach Dutton, Road Rail tractors. As found in the book by R G Cash plus several websites.
These were built in the 1920's as a solution to creating a light weight, low cost railway solution that could be built with much lower weight rails as they didnt need to carry the weight of a heavy locomotive, or incurr such heavy engineering works as they could climb steeper hills.

I have used these various sources to reverse engineer it into a CAD model, which I have printed on a Phrozen 4k mini printer.
The resulting model is equipped with proportional radio control allowing steering, and forward reverse, plus the turning on the rear light should it be required.

It therefore can run on the road, and when using a 3D printed bogie under the front axle, it can run on rails.
 

 

 

For more details, the main thread is here.