{"id":596,"date":"2017-01-10T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:21:39","slug":"piggy-back-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/10\/piggy-back-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggy Back Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earlier post on 1:5 scale trains reminded me of an excellent MOC built years ago by Shaun Sullivan.\u00a0 Setting my Wayback Machine to 15 years ago, I perused Shaun&#8217;s Brickshelf Gallery to dig up his Piggyback flat car from 2002.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/10\/piggy-back-ride\/olympus-digital-camera\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0piggyback.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;C3040Z&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1018148474&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666662693&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Piggyback Car\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A Train on a Train&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0piggyback.jpg?fit=474%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-597\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0piggyback-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Piggyback Car by Shaun Sullivan\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0piggyback.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0piggyback.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0piggyback.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Train on a Train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t clear from the photo is that the train on the flatcar is actually animated.\u00a0 Gearing on the underside of the flatcar allows the mini train on top to circle its own track, all while the flatcar is being pulled in a consist.\u00a0 Originally built before the release of Power Functions, the car uses a standard 9v motor to provide power from the track.<\/p>\n<p>Video back then wasn&#8217;t what it is today, but even this short clip shows what an ingenious build this was.<\/p>\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"traincar\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/32066297912\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earlier post on 1:5 scale trains reminded me of an excellent MOC built years ago by Shaun Sullivan.\u00a0 Setting my Wayback Machine to 15 years ago, I perused Shaun&#8217;s Brickshelf Gallery to dig up his Piggyback flat car from 2002. What isn&#8217;t clear from the photo is that the train on the flatcar is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/10\/piggy-back-ride\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Piggy Back Ride<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,37],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-models","tag-9v","tag-model"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8egNP-9C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}