Random Photos of Trolley Cars

mwb posted:

rex desilets posted:

 

NWSL Stanton drive

But, where do you get the sideframes and will this drive even accept them?

Q Car no longer sells sideframes?
How about their unpowered trucks?

Combining is an exercise left to the student.

rex desilets posted:

mwb posted:

rex desilets posted:

 

NWSL Stanton drive

But, where do you get the sideframes and will this drive even accept them?

Q Car no longer sells sideframes?
How about their unpowered trucks?

Combining is an exercise left to the student.

Quentin stopped selling sideframes several years ago.   Stopped selling most if not all components for trucks. 

I guess you can still get assembled trucks (not sure...) and disassemble them for the parts.

Still, mating them to that drive is an unknown. So, get to work on that and let us all know how it turns out now, will you?

mwb posted:

rex desilets posted:

mwb posted:

rex desilets posted:

 

NWSL Stanton drive

But, where do you get the sideframes and will this drive even accept them?

Q Car no longer sells sideframes?
How about their unpowered trucks?

Combining is an exercise left to the student.

Quentin stopped selling sideframes several years ago.   Stopped selling most if not all components for trucks. 

I guess you can still get assembled trucks (not sure...) and disassemble them for the parts.
Correspondence with Quentin indicated

Still, mating them to that drive is an unknown.

Quote from catalog: "The rigid plastic body is made from ABS, allowing you to glue, drill and tap, or otherwise attach what you’ve got."
Also, there's the NWSL Flea, which would fit into any truck.

So, get to work on that and let us all know how it turns out now, will you?
Way, way down in my queue. Besides, you're the trolley maven. I'm just a wannabe.

 

rex desilets posted:

mwb posted:

rex desilets posted:

mwb posted:

rex desilets posted:

 

NWSL Stanton drive

But, where do you get the sideframes and will this drive even accept them?

Q Car no longer sells sideframes?
How about their unpowered trucks?

Combining is an exercise left to the student.

Quentin stopped selling sideframes several years ago.   Stopped selling most if not all components for trucks. 

I guess you can still get assembled trucks (not sure...) and disassemble them for the parts.
Correspondence with Quentin indicated

Still, mating them to that drive is an unknown.

Quote from catalog: "The rigid plastic body is made from ABS, allowing you to glue, drill and tap, or otherwise attach what you’ve got."
Also, there's the NWSL Flea, which would fit into any truck.

So, get to work on that and let us all know how it turns out now, will you?
Way, way down in my queue. Besides, you're the trolley maven. I'm just a wannabe.

 

 

Last I looked you could still order entire trucks from Quentin; just have not looked nor needed any parts for any project. 

ABS is not a plastic that is all that friendly but it is workable -- what I was questioning more was the wheelbase of the sideframes vs. the drive's.

And my kits for the Difco differential dump cars are slowly rising to the front of the project queue, but fortunately for me I already have the Q-car drives in hand for those cars,

I've got 4 different trolley projects on my work benches right now, and when they are done and written up, then it's back to freight cars for a while; got a stack of styrene air slide hoppers to restore, rebuild and just build......and then sell them all off.  

Single Truck Oil or water sprinkler car

Carrying a few new poles for the line........

So a fellow buys some buildings in El Cajon a few years back, but not just any buildings. Under the vinyl siding and sheet rock, the main structure consists of the last three San Diego Class 1 streetcars known to exist.

Designed in 1910 and built by the St. Louis Car company, these were the first double truck streetcars on the San Diego Electric Railway. They were built to carry passengers to the Panama Exposition in what is now Balboa Park.
After they were retired, many were used to make affordable houses. One house, built of the three streetcars, survived. Under the covering, the gold leaf and cherry trim was beautifully preserved.
More info is here: http://sandiegohistoricstreetcars.org/

Pittsburgh Railways M517, one of two work cars used for weed killing, at the South Hills yard.

(R Hill photo courtesy the Ken Josephson collection on newdavesrailpix.com)

Bill

These are rail grinders, the old and the somewhat new.

Dump Car with load of dirt and then dumping it......

mwb posted:

Dump Car with load of dirt and then dumping it......

This is actually the first time I've seen a Differential Dump Car doing what it was designed to do, i.e dump loads from either side of the car!

Neato!

Mitch

I have two Standard gauge #218 dump cars that do that. They are heavy !!

Trolleys on Main Street, Memphis, TN:

Tomlinson Run Railroad

And here’s another type of dump car built by the Differential Car Company.  This car dumps directly downward (like a hopper car) and is used for spreading ballast along private trolley right-of-ways.  This car was originally built for the Boston Elevated Railway in 1927 and was acquired by the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in 1974. 

It was restored by the PTM and still serves its original purpose as shown in the attached photo being loaded with ballast during construction of PTM’s Redman Wye trackage a few years ago.  And if that name sounds familiar, that trackage was named for that very same Lou Redman, a co-founder of the PTM as well as a founding member of the TCA.

(Photo courtesy of the PTM website)

Bill

Third Avenue Railway Differential car co side dump. Built from old Miller car co kit. Q Car trucks and motors. The kits are still to be found in the usual places if you look.

Nate posted:

Third Avenue Railway Differential car co side dump. Built from old Miller car co kit. Q Car trucks and motors. The kits are still to be found in the usual places if you look.

Nice looking model!

Well-dressed passengers in 1892 pose with "The Seminole", a streetcar in Tampa, Florida.  But without a trolley pole, it must have been horse-drawn back in those days.

Bill

Crane flat motor......

Cincinnati Fort William Electric Railway

Lulu Island - Euburne Railway

Wilkes-Barre Pa Rwy Snow Blower 030

Lake Shore Electric???Lake Shore Electric????

Norristown, Lehigh Valley????Missoula Montana?????????Walla_Walla?????Baltimore

2 Truck oil motor..........

Rhode Island had a significant trolley car system.#61 is a 29 foot, 30 seat single truck car built by Jones in 1893 with open platforms

#1070 WAS A 41-FOOT CAR BUILT BY BRADLEY IN 1911

#1699 WAS A 30-FOOT SINGLE TRUCK SAFETY CAR BUILT BY BRADLEY IN 1922

AT RIVERSIDE IN 1910 ON LINE TO CRESCENT PARK AMUSEMENT PARK

BROAD STREET CAR HOUSE AT THURBERS AVENUE, PROVIDENCE

EAST SIDE TUNNEL UNDER The Rhode Island School of Design, COLLEGE HILL, PROVIDENCE

50 UER CARS WERE SOLD TO CAPITAL TRANSIT OF WASHINGTON, D.C. IN 1940KENT HEIGHTS ON FOX POINT BOULEVARD, PROVIDENCE

RHODE ISLAND 2113 IS A 41 FOOT LONG SAFETY CAR

FJ&G snow sweeper.......  Winter is coming!

Another on the FJ&G

Some random images of trolley cars.

Denver trolley car on Casper Mountain, Colorado

Southington, MontanaSyracuse, New YorkWellsburg, New York

Scranton Rwys sweeper 107

Lehigh Valley Transit Line car R2.........wish I had a 3/4 view from the other end!

Lehigh Vallet Transit Sweeper and Sand Car 524

On the Chambersburg and Gettysburg line....two trolleys leaving the car barn in Chambersburg, PA

C & G Trolley in Chambersburg, PA

While I was in North Carolina recently, I took these photos at the transportation museum.

Is that the museum in Spencer ??

jim pastorius posted:

Is that the museum in Spencer ??

Yes, it is Jim. I recently went there to escape Irma and decided to turn this into a vacation. My family knows that I love trains and said that I should visit the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. That was a great suggestion and I also had to visit the Old Smoke Pit BBQ nearby.

I thought I recognized it. I was there last summer with my son and we spent several hours  there. My son suffered a stroke and was using a walker so that made it  tough to get around. I am staying in the Raleigh area now but on the east side. The trip to Spencer is pretty long or I would be there more often. Hard to find a train around here. My son can't swallow so no BBQ or even a visit to the hobby shop.

Jim, So sorry to hear about your son's health problems, I wish him all the best.

C&G Trolley at Caledonia Park from Chambersburg in 1904

Odd trucks on that one...?

rex desilets posted:

Odd trucks on that one...?

Indeed they are, and also I have no idea what kind they are either.

Could be St. Louis Car Co.  trucks, though I'm willing to be told different. 

Mitch