N: Unloader for Minitrix-tipping wagons

While cleaning up, I found an unloader for tipping wagons that Minitrix ones used to sell. Not that these cars have anything to do with real-life models (at least in this scale), but their action always makes them a great fun for children. Similar wagons were also produced by Fleischmann and Arnold, and you can still find them cheaply on eBay. The corresponding unloading devices, however, are brand specific. 

So, my unloader was a Minitrix one, and it was broken. That’s why I started to create my own, first based on Minitrx tracks, as the original. 

But today I use KATO’s Unitack rails, so next I created one, that fits to this fantastic modern track system. 

Then I realized that KATO has viaduct tracks, and the unloader would better fit to that one and therefore I finally created an unloader fitting to KATO’s viaduct track.

That was fun and a starting point for a journey, the result of which you may see soon in many more designs around KATO’s viaduct theme. Hope someone else find use of my unloader. Happy printing!

Please note:
“Kato” and “Unitrack” are trademarks of K.K. Sekisui Kinzoku, Japan. “Minitrix” is a trademark of Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH, Germany. All trademarks are used for reference only. The design presented here is neither supported nor authorised by the before mentioned trademark holders.