The Toenail Ridge Shortline
Truck assembly plant
Page written, July 11th, 2003
As astute and faithful readers will have noted,
I enjoy making Model T trucks in 1:20.3 scale, using plans from Garden
Railways magazine. The latest effort is an enclosed 1921 van. Previous
models have been a stake truck and a water
tanker....
This model, as with the others, has a plywood
chassis, balsa-wood engine and transmission...
and front and rear suspension complete with
leaf springs
..that Model T radiator is scratch-built from
styrene and the headlights came from an old AMT kit. The crank handle is
welding rod with a brass tube grip.
The diff and rear axle are made of styrene
tubing, an old piece of towel rail and shoe eyelets...
..and that exhaust pipe is a piece of knitting
needle...
the van was delivered to its new owner by
one of the Toenail Ridge Shortline's scratch-built flatcars..
And another truck has rolled out of the assembly plant, this time a Tow truck.
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