More Trolley Details
A fter building and installing new front and rear bumpers on my large scale trolley, I felt that these new bumpers were a bit bare for being so large so I went on a search for detail parts that would make sense in this situation and fit on these bumpers. The first thing I knew I should add is an air tank on the rear bumper. This would be an air tank (or auxiliary air tank) for the brakes so it would make sense that it would be located on the rear bumper. Many small switching diesels (Plymouths) had rear mounted air tanks so that was the logical place to put one on my trolley. Unfortunately, it turns out that finding a tank in the size I needed was a problem. I wasn't finding anything in F scale which is what I needed. Since I needed only a small tank, I tried finding a tank in smaller scales. Unfortunately, I didn't find any G scale tanks that would look right. I tried O scale but most of those would be ridiculously small. I ev...