Some of you may know Ken Briers. He is a former GG1 driver who has fully restored a 1949 Ford PRR Truck. He did painstaking research to make sure he got the truck right. The bed is full of all that documentation. Ken regularly drives it to PRR events. You can find many photos of his truck on the web but here is one he sent me:
Ken is a friend, so I built two models of his truck. I gave him one, the other is on my layout:
The color is actually quite close to that of the real truck.
I can't recall whose model pickup that is, but it required some customization to look like Ken's. And of course, all the decals, including the Natty Boh sticker on the bumper, are all custom made.
I have another friend named Ray who owns a 1956 Willys flat bed pickup truck. He sent me photos (he lives in New Mexico).
I started with this:
And ended with this
