The Faller Car System is a brilliant way of introducing moving road vehicles alongside a railway, and it’s much simpler to add than you might think. MIKE WILD opens up the Gaugemaster starter set to add a circuit to the Hornby Magazine test track.
Above: A FedEx liveried Mercedes four-wheel lorry crosses the new river bridge as a Mercedes Sprinter heads towards the railway underbridge. Above Mainline blue Class 37/0 37055 leads a rake of Accurascale PFA coal container wagons through the developing scene.
ITS EASY TO BECOME OVER FOCUSED on the railway side of a model scene – we are definitely guilty of that – but there are a wide range of operating accessories on the market including the long-standing Faller Car System which can add to the scene outside the railway boundary.
The Faller Car System offers a way of adding moving road vehicles to a model railway which can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. It is made to operate with ‘HO’ scale 1:87 road vehicles, most of which are of modern era designs, but it is equally usable on a ‘OO’ gauge layout as the vehicles won’t look out of place alongside British outline locomotives and rolling stock. Plus, as we plan to show in future issues, it is perfectly possible to ad…
