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Moonson posted:

Gotta like those public transportation vehicles. They were omnipresent during my childhood in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

So, my layout would not have been thorough unless I had a least a few....IMG_4355 [2)IMG_4385 [2)IMG_8762photo 2 [3)waiting for the doors to open

How about you?

FrankM.

I've been thinking a lot about trackless trollies.  The electric buses ran in Cleveland up to 1961.  There were HO models by Eheim and AristoCraft back then.  I see them on eBay and ones in excellent condition command a hefty price.  This is a model that is missing from our layouts and I've considered building a few in O gauge.  There are fine scale O gauge trolley bus models available made in Russia.  The paint jobs are not correct for Cleveland.  The Russian models are in the $500 range.

Just one more project on the list.  

I did try to convince Lionel to make these for SuperStreets when Mike was there.  No one but Mike had a clue as to what they were.

Lou N

 

Moonson posted:

Gotta like those public transportation vehicles. They were omnipresent during my childhood in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

So, my layout would not have been thorough unless I had a least a few....photo 2 [3)

How about you?

FrankM.

Great modeling as always, Frank.

Too bad the combination of "too small" 1:50 buses and relatively "too big" 1:43 autos is visually jarring, and photographing them together tends to exaggerate the problem.  What we need is a good selection of 1:48 vehicles, or at least a better selection of 1:43 buses.

Pete

 

Moonson posted:

Anybody introduced more busses or trolleys to layouts since we last posted on this thread?

FrankM

I haven't added anything but I do remember buying an O scale trolley bus that was plaster and cast in a rubber mold.  I need to find that and clean it up.  Make a new mold and cast it in urethane or epoxy.

Somehow I do get the feeling I am the only one that had in interest in trolley busses.  Somehow those were the highlight of the 50's and 60's.

Lou N

I once had a half dozen of your buses. I haven't seen them in about 25 years. I bet some of the younger family members took them home. More likely the  parents thinking the toys belonged to them actually.

Not a beauty shot, but I love my MTH trolley, and my style bus or "railbus" as it sits now  IMG_20171106_000415

Then there's Frankentrolley for any "other than biped" deliveries.IMG_20170423_092451

 

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Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Moonson,

   Pittsburgh and surrounding areas had Street Cars not Trolleys, and those of us in my era had a ball riding them, the conductors knew every kid on their route and we for the most part road for free under their watchful eye.

PCRR/Dave

 

 

Yes, indeed.

FrankM, of the McKeesport, Duquesne, Homestead, Glassport, Braddock, Munhall, Oakland, Squirrel Hill, Fox Chapel, and "Downtown" (at Kaufman's) streetcar stops.

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 I've worked as a school bus mechanic for over 40 years in a family business. I found a Russian bus at a train show a while back. It resembled something you would see in the 30's. School buses back then could be any color. Not just yellow. I think I spent more for the black labeling tape to letter it than the bus itself. Also added some Arttista figures.

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jackiejr posted:

 One I converted to a lunch wagon the other is GREEN 002

The yellow pickup behind the tree, VW, Econoline, A-100, Chev, or other? 

My last A-100 window van was originally a small rural Texas school bus from 69 till....? The US design cab-over vans began in 62 or 63 I think. Dodge had the biggest payload capability of these types.

Dave_C posted:

 I've worked as a school bus mechanic for over 40 years in a family business. I found a Russian bus at a train show a while back. It resembled something you would see in the 30's. School buses back then could be any color. Not just yellow. I think I spent more for the black labeling tape to letter it than the bus itself. Also added some Arttista figures.

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The last bus like this I saw was an original, a showpiece at Rat Rod shows. It spent part of it's life as a school bus, part as a prison bus for chain gangs. Which if you do some research would be very prototypical along a southern lines of the era, with the prisoners doing forced labor on the RR.

Mark Boyce posted:

Once again, I thought Eric's buses werephotographs of a real city!  So they are more photographs of Eric's great modeling!  Excellent, Eric!

I had the exact same reaction you did, Mark; however, when I looked further, several times, the first photo has a ceiling-wall intersection that is visible in the top-left corner of the photo. That was my clue, to which I added his wonderful reputation for such skills, and felt I might be looking at modeling in all the photos. Then I clicked-on his avatar picture of himself and when I saw it enlarged, I concluded the building he showed with himself was the tall one at the bottom of the photo array.

Such fun!

FrankM

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