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Yet another reason to develop a low-floor power truck (a floor-toy DMU)

Dickie Toys, maker of the City Liner floor-toy tram has come out with another rail-transit toy, this time a diesel-MU car:

From a bunch of YouTube and Google Images searches, I've narrowed this one down to being a model of an Alstom Coradia LINT 27 diesel multiple unit car. This particular toy recreates the car as used by Deutsche Bahn, who calls it a Class 640. (there is an articulated variant known as a 'LINT 41' whose prototype is currently in use on Ottawa's O-Train Trillium Line) 

Yes, it's still a floor toy, but like the City Liner tram (and its Chinese knockoffs), it's likely the perfect size for an 'O' Gauge conversion--provided you could find a low-floor power truck to replace it's non-articulating trucks with (I don't consider cannibalizing a WBB Peter Witt or 44-tonner to be a practical method of doing this). Somebody with CAD experience and a 3D printer needs to start brainstorming

---PCJ

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