Here are some of Ed Davis' fully scratch built N. Y City "S Gauge" Subway and Elevated cars seen on his layout.
Again, Ed used a very cheap camera to take these - and they were taken back in the film days of the 1980's -- so I had to digitally enhance, upgrade all of the photos where I could to get the results (far better than originals) you see - but they are now adequate enough to tell the story and show Ed's model much more clearly.
BELOW -- IRT Deck Roof Hi-V control Motor steel subway car
BELOW -- Cab end of IRT 1939 NY Worlds Fair Steinway Low-V Motor Subway Car
BELOW -- IND R-10 SMEE subway car
BELOW -- two IND R-1/9 class Steel Subway Cars
BELOW -- These were two Manhattan El "O SCALE" MUDC Class Elevated cars - a trailer at left and motor car at right, that Ed built during his O Gauge days. These were a class of former EL Open platform gate cars converted by the IRT in 1923 to closed end vestibule Multiple Unit Door Control cars. Doors slide back and forth on tracks located on the OUTSIDE the carbody. Ed sold them to Nate Gerstein a few decades ago. Nate tried to improve and upscale them and installed scale prototype trucks and wheels under the cars - seen here on Nate's O Scale 2-rail magnificent layout.
BELOW -- BMT EL Gate TRAILER Car # 23, of the 1880's era 6-4-6- window design
BELOW -- A BMT 1300 series EL Gate Motor convertible 1300 series car, and at right a 1200 series BMT EL Gate Motor car; I designed and created the masters for printing the paper buildings backdrops and sent some sets of them to Ed to use around 1998.
BELOW -- BMT 100 Series arch roof EL Gate Motor convertible Car
BELOW -- IRT EL "MUDC" closed vestibule converted Motor EL Car
BMT Two Car Gate Motor Cars -- 1 center door 700 series car and at right, the 1000 series turtle roof motor gate car
BELOW -- IRT Hedley Class Hi-V Control subway steel motor car
BELOW -- A set of BMT Q Type MUDC Converted El cars at Ed's El station as a train of
New Haven RR "American Flyer" type modern passenger coaches seen at opposite platform
BELOW -- BMT Standard steel subway car
BELOW - Third Avenue Railway System deck roof trolley car
BELOW -BELOW -- 1930's modernized Third Avenue Railway System trolley car
BELOW -- IRT Steel SMEE subway cars - R-21 at left, a red R-12 and 2 red arch roof SMEE subway cars
BELOW -- a train of BMT 67 foot Standard subway cars pass my city scene buildings backdrop
BELOW -- IRT 1964 NY Worlds Fair Single R-33-S Subway Car
More photos of ED DAVIS'S CTA Chicago S-Scale scratch built Subway and EL Cars will follow in a day or so
Thanks for viewing ! regards - Joseph Frank
