What powered inspection car is your favorite? Id love to see some. This is my favorite outside the Lionel post war "ambulance", but I have no idea who made it.
The center rail pick-ups are cupped disks like an inverted mushroom.
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Adriatic,
MTH made your CSX inspection vehicle.
Thank you both! I searched a bit but didn't find much. This is from the last Christmas of the last century. It is a hefty little thing, mechanically it runs nice. I painted in some trim myself and filled the headlight area with glow in the dark paint(remember dim 6v lights). My only complaints, it doesn't like grades, turnouts, high center rails, or wavy carpet layouts
. The vertical travel of the pickups is very minimal, but it still makes me grin enough to loop it first on new track. I didn't know there was a bus too. I own a prototype 69 camper
. Smelling a Kitbash! Ive seen some, and photos of, proto rail-ready bugs and busses over the years in the VW aircooled circuits and magazines. Be great to show up at a NARCOA event with a tall disc VW prototype or hi-rail.
