O SCALE COAL TRUCK

I started with K-Line trucks, loosened the bed to allow the front to be raised then added height to the sides with card stock.  Coal bins are scratch built.  John

There was a small dump truck done in O scale by Corgi I think.    About the same vintage, but differnt cab.    Single rear axle with duall8ies etc.

Call Wayne Waltz. He has an amazing collection of 1:43 and 1:50 die-cast vehicles. He has been a dealer in the Orange Hall for many, many years, and is a great guy. If anyone has what you are looking for, or something that closely approximates it, Wayne is your man. His number is 570.587.5732.

Pat

I started with a Matchbox Models of Yesteryear Budweiser truck bought at a train show.  This model does have dual rear wheels.

I removed the stake body, repainted the cab and fenders and added a Berkshire Valley coal truck body ($3 if I recall correctly).

@prrjim posted:

There was a small dump truck done in O scale by Corgi I think.    About the same vintage, but differnt cab.    Single rear axle with duall8ies etc.

This one? Its  White WC22 made by Spec Cast in 1:50 scale. These come up on the "big auction site" fairly often in less popular decoration for things like John Deere and International Harvester if your good at repaints..

Plain ones like this are scarce:

@POTRZBE posted:

In a continuing effort to upgrade my layout homage to the coalfields and cornfields of America, I am looking for an O scale version of this coal dump truck.  It came out in HO and is widely available.  Wishing to completely abide by modmin regs, link, not image, of said truck is included here.

https://trainlife.com/products...-lumpys-coal-company

That’s a Mack EG one of Mack’s medium duty trucks from the mid 1940s to early 1950s. I have never seen one in O scale but I was going to take a corgi LJ and make a coal truck for my yard. If you need help email me. drennen@charter.net.

@RickO posted:

This one? Its  White WC22 made by Corgi in 1:50 scale. These come up on the "big auction site" fairly often in less popular decoration for things like John Deere and International Harvester if your good at repaints..

Plain ones like this are scarce:

That was made by Speccast. Corgi never made a White WC22

@Bob posted:

I started with a Matchbox Models of Yesteryear Budweiser truck bought at a train show.  This model does have dual rear wheels.

I removed the stake body, repainted the cab and fenders and added a Berkshire Valley coal truck body ($3 if I recall correctly).

Bob. Did you make that portable conveyor? Look nice and a great looking pic

@lee drennen posted:

That was made by Speccast. Corgi never made a White WC22

Your right Lee. My mistake.

@RickO posted:

Your right Lee. My mistake.

I Thought you knew who made that truck I’ve seen it on you layout and you said it was made by Speccast. Nice pic of it

I have coal trucks, many rebodied,  on several chasses, pre-1941, l hope, and that Speccast WC22.  Styling did not change, if at all, on some trucks just after WWll, and l think a similar to WC22 pre-war 1/1 White model was offered. The Matchbox 1937 IH is another, now with coal bed, "Budweiser" truck. I have worried about the scale of that Matchbox Bud mid-thirties White, and have not modified it, yet.                               I understand, even pre-virus, many of these model brands have vanished.  As for HO, that Canadian co. that made/makes a wild variety of HO US 1930's brands, and l saw one O scale model on net, would be welcome in our market.  I do not think there are any 1940 medium duty Ford truck models (pickups, models and brands, galore!).  But neither models of '40 Chevrolet.

I'd like a coal truck (circa 1930-1950's), too.

But, when I think of a coal truck...a coal delivery truck...I'd like one that has the scissors lift mechanism enabling the gravity fill into residential/commercial basements.  Such as...

I suppose it would be possible to scratchbuild a credible stationary lift mechanism using a common box bed, say in the delivery position for posing on the layout.  But many of the better die cast auto/truck model manufacturers also build excellent models of construction equipment featuring similar lift mechanisms.  I'm actually quite surprised that someone like Spec Cast or Corgi hasn't stepped up on this one.  These sorts of trucks were common in Europe, too, I believe.

Anyhow, good thread!   

BTW...the WS "Lumpy's Coal" truck is another example of why I wish WS would take O scale more seriously in the Scenic Accents area...figures, vehicle variety, et al.  I don't believe the HO truck has a posable scissors lift, but it's still a neat accessory in its own right.

Sylvan Models (Clare Gilbert) makes an excellent line of period-appropriate HO dump truck kits which could be painted/lettered to represent coal haulers.  But I recall a phone conversation with Clare a few years ago in which he was considering doing a delivery truck that had a posable lift for the box bed.   Clare doesn't do many O scale models, but his Divco bakery delivery van kit in O is a charmer and was a thorough joy to build...

I would GLADLY purchase a couple kits of a 1930's coal delivery truck...w/posable lift)...were he to execute one in O scale!!   Please?

KD

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, in a snaller town down the river.   I never saw a truck with a scissors lift like that.    We had a coal furnace both in Glenwillard and then in Ambridge for awhile.     The coal trucks that deliverd were standard dump trucks and just dumped the load in the driveway in Glenwillard, and in the alley next to the house in Ambridge.    From about 8-9 on, I helped move it in the "coal cellar" through the "window" in the basement.  
This wold have been in the 50s.

Coleco 1932 Ford Texaco

I have several trucks listed in the Sell trade forum under PaPaT

Models of Yesteryear

MatchBox 1912 Ford Model T

1934 Ford Stake

1930 Chevy Busch Truck.

1930 Chevy Barrel

1941 Plymouth Truck

@lee drennen posted:

Bob. Did you make that portable conveyor? Look nice and a great looking pic

Lee, the conveyor is from a kit that was released 15 or 20 years ago.  It is cardstock and wood with Grandt Line "popcorn wagon" wheels.  The conveyor is fairly crude and is very small compared to most prototype versions, but I needed a small one so as not to overpower the scene.