Any railroad guys?

[85_Ranger4x4]

Anyone know what the little buggy is for in the back? Inspecting tracks or something? Can't tell if it has rubber tires or wheels for running on tracks (maybe rubber wheels that run on tracks?) Anyone with B-N or know what they would be doing with little Rangers in the fleet?

 

[Curious Hound]

Interesting. It might be made to run on rails since it seems to be too wide to fit in the bed of the truck.

the Ranger looks cool.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Interesting. It might be made to run on rails since it seems to be too wide to fit in the bed of the truck.

the Ranger looks cool.

Parts of my truck are a special order "WT7514 green" per the door sticker, the outside has since been panted something close to rustoleum "hunter green" to make all the various parts the same color.

Trying to figure out who would have ordered a dark non metallic green and B-N (now BNSF) is local, by chance a google search turned up that picture.

 

[sheep herder]

It's a speeder. Pretty much obsolete now. I've never seen one like that before.

speeder

 

[Dirtman]

Fake news.

 

[cbxer55]

Looks like something Wile E. Coyote would like.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Looks like something Wile E. Coyote would like.

He was old school

 

[Dirtman]

Stop spreading lies!!!

 

[Roert42]

He was old school

Pump trucks are the only real trucks.

 

[Snoranger]

Stop spreading lies!!!

They’re not lies, it fiction.... it’s slightly different.

 

[MikeG]

Should be just the right level of technology for Rusty.....

 

[cbxer55]

He was old school

Yes he is. I have every one of those great old toons. I watch them frequently. Never gets old.

 

[JohnnyO]

I'm guessing it's something to drive from one end of the train to the other. Couple years ago I was a driver for a railroad subcontractor and often I was the one driving the conductor from one end of the train to the other. Mostly I picked up and delivered crews to some train out in the middle of nowhere which was sometimes an adventure to find. Pay was decent but it was easily the worst job I've had in my life.

 

[Dirtman]

The fact that this thread is still going is HIGHLY offensive.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I'm guessing it's something to drive from one end of the train to the other. Couple years ago I was a driver for a railroad subcontractor and often I was the one driving the conductor from one end of the train to the other. Mostly I picked up and delivered crews to some train out in the middle of nowhere which was sometimes an adventure to find. Pay was decent but it was easily the worst job I've had in my life.

My parents live next to the tracks, RR is always parking vans/surburbans/Expeditions at the end of the driveway picking up/dropping off crews.

I have seen all sorts of hodge-podge looking RR vehicles, I have never seen anything Ranger sized.