OK-- thanks to the two members who responded (FlyerRich and "feet" ?) Well, I will give it a shot I will post some photos of Ed's work -- all mostly done with wood and smooth finished cardstock 30 to 40 years ago. These are the ONLY KNOWN S scale fully scratchbuilt models of these NY based subway, EL, and commuter cars - and they are built in full scale dimensions in S scale to the prototype car bodies.
Sorry for the lesser than usual digital original quality - Ed (Mr. always F R U G A L ) used a cheap film camera back in the 1990's to shoot these photos. Somehow he got them on line and sent them to me around 2000. I saved them and just tonight used my computer photos programs to bring out more -- the origtinal wer 25% worse (exposure, less sharp, etc.) but you get the idea. I wish I could have gotten to photograph the originals in person (he lived in Montana then, I in S.E. Pennsylvania -- a no go deal)
These BELOW - to start - are his New York Central R.R. MU Commuter Cars that Ed fully scratch built and installed standard Am Flyer trucks under them. He also powered some of them using, get this, HO scale TYCO or MANTUA diesel truck motors (motor built onto the truck itself) by using AM Flyer wheels on the axles and widening the gauge just a bit for American Flyer. His motors ran for 30 and longer years up to his passing in Sept. 5, 2020. Ed's models were featured in some old tin plat magazines I think, way back.
BELOW: NYCRR Putnam Division Line Clerestory Roof and Round Roof trailer coaches
BELOW: NYCRR Putnam Division Line arch roof trailer coaches (steam and later diesel hauled)
BELOW -- train of NYCRR MU motor cars lead by a Combine MU Car on Ed's "EL" line
BELOW: A standard 1919-20 era built NYCRR MU Motor car "one the "EL" . This class had 6 segments of 3 window groups.
BELOW: A standard I think asw rebuilt 1909 NYCRR Motor car with top-arched windows removed - covered over - and having 9 pairs of windows and on end (lavatory) window - in a modernization rebuilt in the 1920's
BELOW was even another class of NYCRR MU Motor Car
BELOW: A NYCRR MU Motor Combine Car on the "EL"
BELOW: A NYCRR MU Motor Baggage and Mail combine car -- usually found a head or rear of any commuter train having these cars inn the consist
BELOW are a few more NYCRR Motor MU Commuter Cars
WELL -- that is it for Ed's commuter car trains -- and the, my next posting, sometime later Thursday or Friday, will be Ed's various IRT and BMT EL Gate Cars (used on old early NY Elevated lines) and some of his Chicago CTA EL Cars (modern ones from the 1950's) that Ed fully hand built - a a few old Third Avenue Railway System streetcars. Till then, regards - Joe F
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ADDITIONAL NOTE about me:
I (Joseph Frank) myself also had some American Flyer as a boy in mid 1950's -- I had a ALCO PA Diesel (Northern Pacific 2 tone Green) and a few "silver" streamline coaches with Obs car and a red baggage car, track and power pack. I loved and was a staunch (heh) "2 rail track" FLYER guy in those years -- re: the 3 rail track Lionel stuff. In the very early 1950's I also had a bit of tinplate Marx tin stuff and track as a small boy. I eventually graduated by 1960 t to HO Scale and in 1984 to O Scale 2 rail. I still have and operate a huge HO Mainline railroad in my train room with the O Scale EL & Trolley modular layout in the center of the room. The earlier HO SCALE huge NY EL & trolley modular layout is static-displayed on its legs in sections -- but the rest is in storage.
Still have a soft spot in my heart for Flyer Trains (Scale S gauge and original 1950's original AF trains)
NOTE: Here below is my Photos website for my NYC Transit "O SCALE, 2 rail" NY City EL, Subway, Commuter Rail and Trolley cars
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44268069@N00/albums
Joe F
