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My venture into trolleys are a couple of Bachmann streetcars and a couple of those old unpowered kits that came with a pair of sides and some wood to make North Shore cars, that I have never built.I really enjoy your posts about your work, but it would be helpful if when you post pics like this, you would share a bit about how you sourced the parts (resin, old kits, kitbashes, which chassis you used to power them, etc) and achieved these results. Even paint colors would be a help (if I ever get around to building those kits). I am guessing that many of the shells are 3D printed, and chassis by Tomytec or ?
Great models! Someday the Modutrak layout will get a 1949 era Rondout.
I've posted this topic on another forum. I was always hesitant to post my models here in the company of so many esteemed model builders but lately I had a request to do so.
Still in need of decals. Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad 119 "Red Devil," a light weight car that had a steel frame and aluminum body. A sister famously raced a plane. Built 1930. This is a shell from Shapeways, a Tomytec TR04 chassis, a Lokpilot Nano decoder. A ton of fun to run on someone else's line during a show since you just plop it down on the track.
There are some very interesting options for Interurbans and street cars these days. Decal making equipment and skills might be a requirement depending on your tolerance for realism. Not yet finished. This is a Niles Wooden Car, Ohio Public Service #21. This is a 3D printed resin shell from Interurban Models (the same guy who has the C&LE shell on Shapeways). This is his Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/InterurbanModelsTomytec TM-21 chassis. It has room, perhaps some day, for a sound decoder. On the front was a first attempt at the "fender" these cars had that were required by the city of Toledo. This one is hand soldered wire. I've since decided this would be a good project for a first try at brass etching.Bob
Cool. Great job with the cars. Love the Electroliners!I had a similar start in this "branch" of the hobby when I was a teen, in my case as a volunteer at Orange Empire Railroad ("Trolley" in 1973) Museum. Lots of time on the platform car maintaining live (!!!) overhead, eventually involved in restoring the Sacramento Northern 653:That's me in the shirt and tie on the rear walkway. I caught heck for dressing up for the roll-out. My buddy Dennis is at the controls. I still have my notes on all the original lettering and stenciling, and need to copy and forward them to the current staff especially since a repaint several years ago wiped it all out. This experience with the 1:1 has not influenced my modeling, however. Overhead is a royal PITA regardless of scale. I model UP ~1970 and it would be a natural to shoehorn YVTCo into the layout, but I have more ideas than space and it'll just have to live on in my memories, having visited Yakima in 1980.
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