Sixteenth Annual N Scale Vehicle of the Year Award

[dougnelson]

I like them all, but here is my vote:

[Curtis Kyger]

The Artitec MF 830 combine is my choice.

[amato1969]

@dougnelson really nice work --- and well chocked!

  Frank

[Tallmatt]

Looks like I'm the odd one out - the JTC trailer.

Mundane to the point of invisibility but vital to the modern scene.

[cfritschle]

Under normal circumstances, the voting for the N Scale Vehicle of the Year Award would have ended today at the close of the Swap-A-Rama.  However, because the convention was canceled, the deadline to vote has been extended to June 30, 2020.

If you have voted, thank you!  I you have not voted, but would like to, please vote by June 30th.  I you have already voted, there is no need to vote again because only one vote per person will be counted.   

[pmpexpress]

Trainworx Freightliner Cascadia

[Maletrain]

I vote for the Artitec MF 830 combine.  I bought that and the bottle truck.

[ns737]

I have a question. and I do not want to start a war. is the 850 combine really a vehicle. and not just a farm machine.

[cfritschle]

I have a question. and I do not want to start a war. is the 850 combine really a vehicle. and not just a farm machine.

The combine is self-propelled, and can be driven through a field to harvest a crop, or down a road to get to the next field or to return to the farmstead.  I have driven combines as far as 80 miles one-way to get from one farm to another at times. 

Also,  back in 2004 when the N Scale Vehicle Association was forming, the 1/87 Vehicle Club was certainly a "benchmark" for what we wanted to establish for N scale.  And if you look at the "logo" on their homepage, a self-propelled combine appears in the upper left corner.  http://www.1-87vehicles.org/

While we have have not published a formal definition for what can be considered a vehicle, the "rule of thumb" has been that it is land based (no boats unless on a trailer and no airplanes) and the "vehicle" can be a self-propelled land vehicle or towed by a self-propelled land vehicle.  Does that help?

[ns737]

ok  i just asked. because I have seen a boat mounted on a car chassis and can be driven on the road.

[wazzou]

ok  i just asked. because I have seen a boat mounted on a car chassis and can be driven on the road.

Was that one of the options to vote on?  I shamefully must have missed that one.

[ns737]

no I just was asking. my family has farms and we can not run the wheat combines on the road here. with out removing the front.

[cfritschle]

Was that one of the options to vote on?  I shamefully must have missed that one.

Bryan,

This Busch boat and trailer assembled from a kit came very close to being nominated for the Enhanced N Scale Vehicle of the Year Award last year.



Edit:  Any amphibian would also be considered a vehicle.  Micro-Trains made one several years ago that looked like the ones used in the last Indiana Jones movie.

[cfritschle]

no I just was asking. my family has farms and we can not run the wheat combines on the road here. with out removing the front.

Idaho and Oregon seem to have no restrictions on how wide a farm "vehicle" or implement can be to traverse a county road.  My combine has a 16 foot header, but I have met combines with 20 foot, or even wider headers on roads where it was impossible to get past them without driving off of the pavement.  However, it seems like it would be a lot safer to require the header to be on a trailer when it is as wide as the road!   

[cfritschle]

And the winner is . . .

http://nscalevehicles.org/