WBB EZ Streets Police Van with lights!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing Dave.

Dave your retrofit LED kit looks great.  I have one question though.  Do all the EZ Street vans make that much noise? 

Way cool David, did you ever catch the crook?

Very cool. 

Interestingly, the original (first year) K-Line Superstreets vehicles including a van with this very same body casting, with a working light bar (two tiny blinking LEDs).  Lionel-K-Line put out the same van sans light cast in but but no lights. Weird.  I have two of the original K-Line with blinking LEDs.  They also have an e-board so they will do F-N-R, too.   In the US, WesternDepot still has about 30 of them NIB - they are so old ('98ish) that the grease in the two I bought had hardened and I had to scrap it out and relube them.

A siren - no one's ever had a siren.  Dave, you have to do a siren if you can make it fit!

Wild Mary, I think the camera amplified the noise, it's not too bad.

Lee, the siren kit from Evan design will fit. It has a push button, momentary action, that cycles through 3 different sounds to off each time it's pushed. I'm thinking about replacing it with a mini reed switch. Place a magnet on the track and every time the van passes, the siren will change state.

My camera is also very frustrating in that it seems to amplify noise when doing a video also.  Never figured how to turn that down.

I'm planning to build some firetrucks for my SS/EZ roads and will have to get the Evans siren kit.  Very cool idea. 

I recorded this with my little point and shoot still camera, not my video camera. The microphone in these are are pretty basic.

Lee, I'm looking at now motorizing some different diecast vehicles. What's available from Bachmann is very limited. This should be fun.

Yeah, its limited.  On the other hand, they own the rights to some of the other castings used in Superstreets, including, I think, the vintage truck, the panel van, and the short little (otherwise scale) school bus.  Also, K-Line offered (but never produced) in their first SS catalog, SS Chevy Camaros and a Ford tow truck, etc.  I expect WBB will bring some of those out.  

Still, it is a lot of fun to convert diecast and you get more "model" models.  

Hi guys, I have a few Ertl step vans in police and ambulance if you think they would be good to make up motorized units. They measure 2 H X 1 7/8 W X 4 1/2 L...that's bumper to bumper. They come with a couple of different light bars that you have to paint.

Hi Dave great work, that looks awesome.

Thanks, Alex