Post by Muleskinner on Oct 17, 2011 13:40:05 GMT -8
I drug this Mack R off the self to finish it up finally after a couple of years. I built the frame for it and cast the ERTL bunks in white metal after doing some modifications on them so they would come down to the type used on a train unit.
The rig is modeled off of a unit Sargent Trucking Had out of Arcata California back in the early and middle sixties. All of their trucks were yellow and green except this one which ultimately became know as the "2ND Street Hooker" because of its red color. I knew this truck well as it was one which cousin Harold drove for many years. In fact his last trip in it was over a mountain side blazing a new logging road as he said about the incident for many years. We always told him the old hooker finally gave up the ghost and committed suicide!
Anyway back to the truck. The trailer was an old general roll on roll off lumber rig which was converted to a short logger by the shop mechs and then mated to the truck which was originally a extended frame long logger for hauling Redwood. This was also the first and last Short train Sargent ever owned.
My rig is modeled basically from memory of that truck in the form which you see it in the photos. There are a lot of details which have to be added to it to bring it into perspective. I am presently looking for a Four speed spicer to mate up to it for a twin stick 5/4 unit and it has to have the Saddle water tank added to the frame side and spare tire rack on the frame.
The close up of the rear axle of the trailer shows the pedestal stand we called a center road grader because of how it hung below the trailer in front of the rear duals. This sat on a cross bar at the rear of the truck to support the over hang of the trailer when in the carry position. They were not well liked when applied to logging trucks because they had a tendency to hang up on the edge of the road if the rear duals happened to take trip off the road and jerk the trailer over. They also had a habit of dragging down the center of the road if it had a few deep ruts in it. Thus it nick name center road Grader. They had other names too, but that is a different story and not really one to be told here on the forum.
I have decided to work on this truck and get it finished as a break from the Lidgerwood which is almost completed. As far as I know it is the only other train unit besides one my son built posted on the forum. But it shows the other side of the logging truck industry seldom seen. Hope you like it.
William
The rig is modeled off of a unit Sargent Trucking Had out of Arcata California back in the early and middle sixties. All of their trucks were yellow and green except this one which ultimately became know as the "2ND Street Hooker" because of its red color. I knew this truck well as it was one which cousin Harold drove for many years. In fact his last trip in it was over a mountain side blazing a new logging road as he said about the incident for many years. We always told him the old hooker finally gave up the ghost and committed suicide!
Anyway back to the truck. The trailer was an old general roll on roll off lumber rig which was converted to a short logger by the shop mechs and then mated to the truck which was originally a extended frame long logger for hauling Redwood. This was also the first and last Short train Sargent ever owned.
My rig is modeled basically from memory of that truck in the form which you see it in the photos. There are a lot of details which have to be added to it to bring it into perspective. I am presently looking for a Four speed spicer to mate up to it for a twin stick 5/4 unit and it has to have the Saddle water tank added to the frame side and spare tire rack on the frame.
The close up of the rear axle of the trailer shows the pedestal stand we called a center road grader because of how it hung below the trailer in front of the rear duals. This sat on a cross bar at the rear of the truck to support the over hang of the trailer when in the carry position. They were not well liked when applied to logging trucks because they had a tendency to hang up on the edge of the road if the rear duals happened to take trip off the road and jerk the trailer over. They also had a habit of dragging down the center of the road if it had a few deep ruts in it. Thus it nick name center road Grader. They had other names too, but that is a different story and not really one to be told here on the forum.
I have decided to work on this truck and get it finished as a break from the Lidgerwood which is almost completed. As far as I know it is the only other train unit besides one my son built posted on the forum. But it shows the other side of the logging truck industry seldom seen. Hope you like it.
William
