Hot metal car truck repair.

Sometimes in steel mill hot metal cars trucks need to be repaired. This is a hot metal car hospital truck its a temporary truck so these massive cars can still be moved around in the shop area while there trucks are being repaired. 

Slab carriers

Slab carriers were built from Tyco/Mantua culvert flat cars. Added side post and ends. Kadee couplers was body mounted and trucks and wheels were changed out. 

Slag Haulers

These wheeled slag haulers are from Garry Lance. They are cast resin and are nicely detailed. Additional detail parts added is a strobe light and hydronic hoses which were added only to the red hauler. Yellow hauler will get hoses added at a later dated. 

Ladle Carrier

Been working on a ladle carrier. This started out as a cheap heavy haul truck from Smart Toys that I picked up a few years back. I removed the rear wheels on the tractor and replaced them with wheels that came from Ralph Ratcliffe Models and the trailer came from Garry Lance. I still need to add a few detail parts but it is a start. Garry modeled the trailer after one of Dean Freytag's models.

Blast Furnace mobile drill

Had a good friend recently send me a package in the mail. Was amazed when I opened it. This little guy was one of the first things I got out of the package. It is a mobile drill for the blast furnace that he modeled after seeing similar in a video. It started out as a Matchbox vehicle with a lot of modification on it. Thanks, Paul.