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Looking forward to receiving the Williams Peter Witt streetcar I ordered but have a few questions for anyone who has one.

1.) Has anyone put passengers in it's beautifully decorated interior? If so, did you need to modify them to fit by trimming the feet or legs, etc. from their bodies? Which manufacturer's figures did you use? Which size looks the best? Anyone try RMT"s seated BEEPeople or MTH's seated figures in the Peter Witt?

2.) Love the realistic bell, but is there a way to add additional sounds such as squealing brakes as it stops or possibly the conductor calling lout the stops the streetcar makes?

Thanks for relaying your experience with your Witt streetcar.

Kenn

 

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I have three of the Baltimore Peter Witt cars and have added both seated and standing figures to both.  For the seated figures I used RMT figures and cut off the legs.  Once they're seated you'll never notice it.

 

I also removed most of the electronics (located in the ceiling) and added Dallee E-units with a lock out switch.  The existing E-unit has to be sequenced through reverse which isn't prototypical.  I rode a streetcar to school for 8 years and never saw one travel in reverse nor did I ever hear any brakes squeal.  I would be nice to have a programable sound chip with the conductor announcing the upcoming stop.

 

I also added the destination & car line # to the front and side.

You have to cut their legs and bit more off  if your figures are big Lionel ones, etc., probably all but the torso.  It has an interior, which is more than some other street cars do, but there is not normal legroom.  I use MTH Railking's 120 figure unpainted set (30-11043) - they are a bit smaller than scale (most of them anyway) and they work better here and in passenger cars than scale figures and look fine once in place.  You still have to "edit" the legs and sometimes the butt a bit to get them to it and look good.

 

 

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