Russian Zis-5 rail car

[chester]

Again I venture into unknown territory for me since I have little knowledge of rail related equipment. But I had a very nice modeler from Spain send me some prototype photos of the Zis-5 pressed into rail service. I took a huge amount of liberty here and came up with this 1/87 scale model of the Roco injected molded plastic piece.

[Ray Dunakin]

Very nice!

[marc_reusser]

I thought on a "railcar" the rails were supposed to be under the truck?

A cool little build.


Marc

[Malachi Constant]

Real neat little conversion!  Lots of nice details.

Cheers,
Dallas

[NORCALLOGGER]

Nice build. 
Very realistic.
Uncle Russ may not approve of the chain, that's just a rumor I heard.
Rick

[LLIAXTEP]

Very nice build Chester, as always.
Would you mind sharing one of the prototype photos of the beast. I am Russian and am very interested in all rail related things from back there, but thi info is hard to come by. I doesn't seem to be very well documented, or at least accessible.

Thanks
Alex

[chester]

Thanks all, this was actually a very simple build. And yes I had my trepidations over the chain for just the reasons described.
This for Marc with the rails on the right side of the truck.



Alex, here's a proto photo for you

[Chuck Doan]

Nicely built, and it look plausable to me.

[JohnP]

The prototype looks less believable than the model! The model looks very appropriate and normal. But I am sorry to see the white-wall wheel rims didn't make it on the model; that would have classed it up even more.

Very nice build Chester.

John

[Ken Hamilton]

I really need to start poking around on other threads.  Chester, what a neat little piece.
For not knowing much about railcars, you hit this one right on the button.
Nice job!