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Thimmaker:

Very nice job.  How did you get the curve at the base of the uprights?  It came out really well.  I am doing a smaller open trolley from the same company's plans and will need to make curved bases. 

BTW, for once we 3-railers get to carp about 2-rail track:  the prototype for these cars were the electric cars the New Haven Railroad ran in Nantasket Beach (Mass.) and Hartford-Bristol (Conn.) service.  They were powered by a shoe running atop a live center rail.; hence the lack of a trolley pole.  The center rail was flatter than normal T-rail.  The center rail system was problemmatical and after a few years was replaced with line-side poles carrying a trolley wire.

BRUCE

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