Hi All,
After the torrential rains and flooding of 1955, the New Haven (NY NH & H) had many issues with track washouts, landslides and such. However, they also had to overcome damage to underground cables in a variety of locations. Just a decade after WWII, the NH was operating with a lot of military surplus vehicles made available to utilities, transportation and other infrastructure agencies.
The NH crews are diligently at work here in the city with three of their vehicles.
The vehicle to the left is a re-purposed Mack B box truck just recently obtained. I primed it with Rustoleum auto primer and finished it with Scalecoat II Hunter Green. Yes, I miss Scalecoat. Decals are from MicroScale.
The vehicle toward the back is a telecommunications truck, originally built by Chevrolet for the war. Ironically, I built it from a 3-D printed kit sold by a French company (Gas-O-Line). They have a lot of high quality printed 1/48 vehicles. About half of the interior detailing came from my parts bin, but all the exterior details were in the kit. Decals were MicroScale. That was a fun build.
The truck in the foreground is a re-purposed Menard's army vehicle---which scales out pretty close to 1/48. The truck is stock, including paint but with decals by Champ. I removed the stars and other paint as needed with lacquer thinner, a Q-tip and patience, so I didn't need to paint. It's not painting season at 23 degrees and windy....
I'll probably post the photos in the New Haven site as well.
Thanks for reading!

