Lee Willis - Here's one for you. (And it's articulated!)

That is one neat bus from the 40's?    I've never seen one like it before.

I ride these when I'm in Hawaii in the winter.

I have one of those in NYC MTA colors. It only barely articulates (the accordion joint is flexible, but stiff).

I also have a radio-controlled one of similar size from China-based web store "EZ Bus Toys", but alas it only "looks" articulated--it'd take a substantial chop-up and rebuild operation to make it articulate.

I believe the German LRV toy that someone rebuilt into a functional 2-rail model is also available there.

---PCJ

Here's a history from Hemmings: 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index...ers-articulated-bus/

Spence - that's nice.

I was actually looking at photos of this the other night, thinking it and the original GMC Highway traveler might be fun buses to scratchbuild someday.  Right now I am waiting for a Corgi Scenicruiser to arrive - my next bus project.  

thinking it and the original GMC Highway traveler might be fun buses to scratchbuild someday.

I hope you do.  I'd love to see either or both.

The Scenicruiser was a great one too, one of the best, also one of my favorite busses.

A rare prototype of an articulated bus.  Their was a small fleet of Twin Coach articulated buses that ran in Omaha in the 1950s.  At least one has been preserved. There issues with horizontal movement and vertical movement with no market to justify further development. It wasn't until years later that a device was added that narrowed the range of motion by the trailer at higher speeds.

Most intercity bus terminals of the 40s and 50s could not accommodate a bus of that size.

I got into buses kind of by accident but now find them fascinating and addictive.  About five years ago I decided I needed some buses on my layout and bought a few Corgi buses not knowing much about them.  I converted them to 'Streets, at first unsuccessfully but my third attempt was good (still running) . . . but i had the bug and now reserach them a lot.

One i want to model is this puppy, made during WWII. It was a city buy made to move masses to factories.  A lot of plywood in it due to wartime shortages of steel.

Whoa, that's an odd duck.  What was the point of having the top match the front of the bus if the driver couldn't even sit to the front without fear of getting cut in half around a turn?  Still fun to watch drive down the road I'm sure.

Oh, I GOTTA see that one.

Do it, Lee!  Do it!  Do it! Do it!