O Gauge / O Scale Light Rail Vehicles

Hi JP,

Island Model Works just came out with a model of the Portland streetcar.  Check it out.http://islandmodelworks.com/Portland.html

A video of one of these models recently completed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px61iYtz8O4&feature=plcp

Phil Randall

I'm going to say "light rail" means the modern interpretation of the streetcar. "Heavy rail" usually refers to a subway (or metro).

And there is precious little of it out there in 'O' (well actually all scales in the US) despite the national proliferation of new LRT systems over the past couple of decades.

---PCJ

Siku once made a 1:50 articulated streetcar but it didn't have O gauge trucks, It's a toy not a powered vehicle.

JP of Acton MA USA writes:

Hi yardlet6,

do you suppose you can dig up a pic of this Siku streetcar? Do you know what kind of trucks it had?

The trucks were small and not to scale. I don't have a picture right now but later.

The Siku street car is actually 1:55 scale.  See it here:

http://www.siku.de/en/sikumodelle/1/tram-3726.html

Phil Randall

Yeah,that's it. Only mine's yellow. Siku's stuff are toys not adult collectibles so scale is not a big thing.