Trolleys

Current trolleys apart from the remaining Walt Cameron Western Hobbycraft trolleys include:

Williams By Bachmann (Baltimore Transit) Peter Witt in various schemes

Lionel Birneys

MTH 8 window single truck bump-and-go Brill

MTH PCC 

Previous trolleys (may still be around if you hunt):

Bowser double truck Laconia (as rebuilt by Reading Transit)

Bowser single truck Birney

Atlas O double truck Brill semi-convertible

MTH double truck Brill semi-convertible

K-Line Brooklyn semi-convertible (over size height)

Can't think of any more right now.  Brain fog? 

But alas, none of these offerings are not  quite up to the Western Hobbycraft trolley offering! 

I am planning a trolley on a layout I'm drawing up. I want one that stops and pauses before going to next stop.

Saw a great video and lost it. Looked like it was on a modular layout. It was 2-rail on street setting. Looked like it was powered overhead, which would be great.

Something like this?  By the way, Dallee offers a Timed Station Stops circuit.

I placed an order for a Western Hobbycraft trolley and extra "scratch and dent" shell last week. Got a notification today that it will ship out tomorrow.

http://www.westernhobbycraft.com/store.html

Norm,

Most of the trolley discussions occur in the "Subway/Transit/Traction" forum.

Stuart

GV, The MTH Proto PCC trolleys have this system built into them! I have two on two separate lines, once you set them up for where you want them to stop/start, they will do this without any further set up and they even announce the stops by name! I do use BCR's so not to have to worry about battery's,  and they have functioned for about 6 years now!

Uncle Al

Uncle Al

thanks - good to know

You probably saw an East Penn layout... 

http://www.eastpenn.org/

Mitch (East Penn member for 40 years in 2016)

We are blessed in the Midwest with a man named Bob Olsen. He models Brooklyn in the 50's. All of his trolleys are scratch built. Tm did  a video of him and his layout. They are all overhead wire powered with the exception of some third rail prototypical. He actually built a trolley to ride on in his yard.

The MTH Brill semi-convertible trolley cars with PS2 and PS3 have a learn mode that enables programming the cars to stop at specific points. The programming can be done for loop and point-to-point running. The cars have a library of stop names or you can record your own. At each stop, the motorman / conductor announces the stop name, the next stop, and there are background sounds of people, pumps, etc.

MTH also make a Rail King Birney bumper trolley that can be operated at much slower speeds than any other brand.

I just bought one of these at my local hobby shop.

that makes two that I have.

they boogie!!!

Can you define what that means? 

I could maybe point you to a Clouser body, a Q-car drive and the details parts and you'd have a spectacular model that after painting might only run you $600.

There's probably one of the nicest finished out La Belle trolleys I've even seen on eBay right now for just over $1100.

I've been super happy with my recently acquired Western Hobbycraft trolley. Good detail and heft. I also have a MTH PCC that I had to rip the bad board out of and run conventionally that's a pretty good runner now.

I do think the programability of these newer models sounds like a lot of fun. I'm thinking a trolley running around a christmas tree layout next year might be the ticket. I currently have a LGB G scale set I inherited performing christmas tree duty and almost bit on an Aristocraft PCC trolley this year. Sorta torn as my heart is with O but the G scale trolley is pretty cool I must admit.

mwb,

I think that everyone has a different idea as to quality.  Perhaps I used a poor discriptive here and have no intention of starting anything that would raise someone's hackle.  Anyway, I have always thought that Walt's products were head and shoulders above the competition.  His supplies are finite I would imagine.  Has anyone filled the void at that price point?  I'm not interested in a $1000 product.  I also have a couple of MTH trolleys and the are nice enough.  I guess that if it runs all of the time it is of high quality.

Norm 

I'd like to see Bachmann do another streetcar. The Peter Witt trolley is very nice--I have one in1/29th scale, and a couple in HO.

Jeff C

Perhaps I used a poor discriptive here and have no intention of starting anything that would raise someone's hackle.

None raised here.  Just trying to get a grip on what you are looking for...  It's a small segment of the O scale hobby and there are a few very toy-like items and then there are the $300 and up items.  There's precious little in between other than what you can build yourself.  That Bowser drive provides some access to affordable, but it runs way too fast.  Still, the price is right and I have several cars that I have built to make use of that drive as well as developed a kit to use that drive.

Indeed.  But hopefully, one that might have wider appeal and be very amenable to being boh 3- and 2-rail to maximize interest.