WHERE TO GET DUMP TRUCKS O GUAGE

Roy;

If you can make it to the Amhearst meet in Springfeild Mass this month there is always a guy there with lots of Industrial equipment in various gauges.

Not cheap but good stuff.

I even found a D8 Clutch/Cable controlled Bulldozer last year for under $50, but it was on another table, not the guy with the cranes and such.

I had to come back and add, there is also a guy that does flatcar loads of such stuff. All very well dome, but more money due to the Customized flatcar having wood decking ect.

If you can wait a bit till I get able to get to the attic, I have a number of 1:43 and the lionel  trucks I can let you have.  about 2wks.

ralph

Search away, I've gotten fantastic deals on really nice diecast on ebay, some for under $10.  http://www.ebay.com/sch/Diecas...nkw=trucks&rt=nc

http://www.diecastdirect.com/types/trucks.htm

http://www.3000toys.com/

Somer here that wont break the bank ...
http://www.trainworldonline.co...Trucks-and-Vehicles/

-Pete F

better yet
http://www.trainworldonline.co...cles-planes/o-gauge/

Fred Lundgren has the right idea...

More specifically, this is one of my favorite manufacturers...

http://www.diecastdirect.com/asp_modules/catalogkey.asp?ProductQuery=wc22&SearchType=All+Words

And a sample of their dumper...

http://www.diecastdirect.com/a...?ProductCode=SC38030

BTW, this one is available in 'eleventy-seven' different railroads, too.  Just page through Spec Cast's list.  Reasonably priced, too.  Very popular at our store (LHS).

KD

Go to Amazon.com.

Pick the search line at the tip, pick category Toys and Games and type "1:50 dump truck" into the selection box (or 1:43 dump truck)

I only looked at the first page of 1:50 dump truck, which had both models and toys on it, but there must have been a dozen or more good model dump trucks, different brands, eras, and prices - including the White WC22 that I ordered last week, as a matter of fact

I always check Amazon first because  many of the other companies people above sell through amazon are associates of that site, so when you serach amazon, it seraches through their databases too, last week i bought from Mint Models and 3000 toys but with 1-click at Amazon - easier and the serach looks through all those databases. 

I got this New Ray 1:43 dump truck for about $15 off Amazon recently.  for that price it came with a two-axle trailer of about the same volume as the dump bed that it can tow.  Both beds, truck and trailer, raise and low.  Mostly plastic, but good looking.  Spray he cab and chrome with a bit of mat clear and it would look very good on a layout.  I'm bought it just to get the cab and parts for possibel conversion to Superstreets, but its a nice model, and inexpensive, but big (because it is big n the real world)

As someone said above, Spec Cast has a White and an International (IH) dump truck that can be found reasonably on the net.  These trucks are from the 1950's but are very similar to models that were introduced in 1939.  They are smaller than New Ray which seems oversize to me, even for 1/43.  I picked up a New Ray stock (cattle) truck 18 wheeler, to get the body, for a stockyard, and can't use the body with my earlier cabs.  I made dump truck bodies for a couple of different Matchbox trucks and an Ertl truck to get variety.  These bodies were often bought from local body builders who would put it on your chassis, and, for the coal use I put them to, the prototypes I remember were beat up and patched. There is one 1934 Ford dump truck on the net and that several people carry at York, but that might be too early.  On eBay search toys, search cars and trucks, and then by brand or scale...

I think I recognize the Orange Pete Model 380 with the grey dump under the Youngs in the picture. It's by New Ray, I have several of these rigs off the Bay at what must be retail PLUS shipping UGH...

heres one i have on my layout.  looks to be built from revell gas tank truck fitted with with tootsietoy dump

I got this very nice 1:50 White dumptruck today.  I've seen it other places but I bought it from MB Klein (modeltrainstuff.com).  I don't recall the exactly price but it was mid range ($20-$30).

Picked up some New Ray boom/digger derrick trucks at Tractor Supply for Five bucks each and even the out riggers work! The train importers should take a lesson from them in packaging.

Gunny

Check out the old Matchbox/Lesney "King Size" series of diecast on Ebay and elsewhere. Some can be spendy but if you buy the beat up played with ones you can do alright. Here is my "steel" zone corner of my layout. Both cranes are Lesney King Size vehicles:

Mr. Willis and others interested....that Spec-Cast White dumptruck has a twin IH

(International) model to go with it, and both are available with a stock bed, and  maybe others although I haven't seen any, say, tank trucks or box trucks.  I made an effort to track down a few of each after I determined that the style of both the White and the IH were introduced in 1939 and continued after the war, as these model.  This makes these workable, as much is not, for steam and diesel eras.  Some I picked up, luckily, did not have a logo.  I mentioned on another thread how much fun it is to get the logo off the doors (not), forcing a repaint, which demanded a complete stripping. 

I have had good luck removing the door logo's with fingernail polish remover and a q-tip. Just go easy and a little bit at a time. It will take a few wipes to get the logo to start breaking down but once it starts it will go fairly easy and quick. Be sure to get the kind with no Acetone in it.