Here’s a little diorama that can take place on your layout. This Bucyrus-Erie crawler crane can be unloading pipe off a truck a few days before the digging starts to put in a culvert under the road. The crane is Sheepscot kit number 95021C, there is also kit number 95021 that is a truck crane. The truck crane’s list price is $30.00, the crawler is $36.00.

Haunch Beam Load for Lowbed Trailer

Here‘s an idea for a load that can be easily made, is realistic for almost any scene where there’s a road, and will draw attention because it‘s out of the ordinary. A haunch beam is often used in bridge where it bears on a pier. It is deeper than the other beams and can often present problems in transportation to the site.

This 20 ton capacity lowbed is made of a one piece metal frame and metal 10.00-15 tires. There’s 2x6 wood decking.

It is shown here being pulled by an International KB-11 (Kit # 95141) and carrying a Best 60 bulldozer made from a Rio Grande kit.

This is a modified kit 95046 60 ton trailer, the third axle has been removed as was very typical for the late 50s and 1960s. It is being pulled by a C-100 Autocar, a large tractor for the late 1940s.

Sixteen wheel lowbed late 1940s, early 1950s vintage

Lowbed Kit Number 95049 for hauling large shovels and cranes

Although they could haul most anything the folding gooseneck was great for paving machines and trenchers. This trailer required a tractor with winch to pull the gooseneck up into latching position and then the tractor could force itself under to connect the fifth wheel with the help of the winch.
Every state had their own rules, in Maine in the 50s and 60s this rig could be permitted to haul a yard and a half shovel, a little more than a fifty ton machine.

Before delivering to the customer the rig was turned to be sure there was no interference

This is a very accurate model of a Roger Bros. cable operated removable gooseneck trailer of about 1950. Rather than using a hydraulic ram to raise and lower the trailer bed during the unloading process, the ram was operated by a cable controlled by the tractor's winch.

The "geep dolly" or as Rogers calls it, a gooseneck dolly, is the same as that used in the Sheepscot kits 95046, 95047, 95048, and 95049 cast metal lowbed kits.