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Roadtrain: BQuad of 4 x 40foot containers


The round bit at the rear is a streamlined cowling that covers a turntable, so another trailer can be added. Still to do: container detailing, logos, lights, road and background, cabin doors & detailing, roo-bar.

Comments

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

A lot of the places where the roadtrains go, there really isn't any proper road to tear up: just gravel tracks. Out in the NT, where roadtrains carry all of the heavy freight (including all the supplies for the cattle stations), the Stuart Highway up the spine of the state is dead-straight high-quality bitumen, but as soon as you take a turnoff it's almost 100% dirt roads.

The roadtrains trash the dirt roads, but nearly everybody who regularly uses those roads has a 4WD, so it isn't too big an issue.

Occasionally you get weird compromise stuff: the Barkley Highway (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v137/lostwanderfound/dodgyroad.jpg) (heading east into Queensland from just north of Tennant Creek) is a two-lane dirt road with one lane of bitumen down the middle of it. People drive on the bitumen when they've got it to themselves, and shift half a lane sideways (dropping one set of wheels into the dirt) whenever there's any oncoming traffic.

That's just when it's an equal match (car -v- car or roadtrain -v- roadtrain), of course; when it's roadtrain -v- car, the roadtrain stays on the bitumen and the car gets the hell out of the way.

I should also mention that this road has a great many blind crests in it, and no speed limit... :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

That road's transition from NT Highway to QLD Highway at Camooweal is a real shock to the system.