K-line Trolley

Doesn't look very prototypical...

Ive always wanted the K-Line "Coney Island Trolley".... Never got it..

Are you referring to the bears? It definitely falls under the toy train category, but it really isn't a bad approximation of a 1910s convertible

What's the drive like in these - underbody?

That's really neat interior detail... if it were bump and go, I'd be looking for one

There is one on ebay right now.....

Zach, did you win it?

throw in a mth can motor and add proto 2 from a PCC!  and you got a cool trolley or Gunrunner john did some TMCC stuff.  maybe he did a trolley like that.  looks kind of like a Brill

I have the K-Line Coca-Cola Trolley Car with the Polar Bears, so it's not prototypical, I really don't care, I just enjoy it, it's cute! Good Runner too. Building a 3 or 4 stop station track for it now, locked in forward with reversing loops, otherwise point to point running. Have had it about 5 years and no problems, picked it up for about $30.

Oh, it's not prototypically proportioned:

But as I found out a few years ago, it definitely is based upon a particular prototype, even down to the trucks. About the only difference is BRT 4573 is shown in its summer configuration, with bars replacing the wood-and-glass panels it would sport in colder seasons.

The "value" in having the tooling for this model lies not in the funk-ily proportioned body, but in the trucks, which if not completely underfloor, are at least low-slung enough to make other, more realistically proportioned trolleys or LRV's possible without having to design a new power truck from scratch (other than maybe lengthening their wheelbase a bit).

---PCJ

I didnt win it... =/ Maybe next time..

Bummer. Good luck.

I had one the K-Line trolley cars and it was way too big for O-gauge.

Thanks!  There's the information that I was looking for all along,