Dan Padova posted:Joseph Frank posted:joe@imw posted:Island Modelworks does produce the Almond joy/ M3 cars in O scale. You can see them here:
http://islandmodelworks.com/OPA.html
Thank you.
Joe
Hello Joe - (Ogden - IMW owner)
Yes, at this time now you do -- as a fairly new product release.
But not when this thread was originally started some time ago back in 2016.
Your O Scale Philly Market-Frankford BUDD built "Almond Joy" EL car is fantastic - beautiful and extensively fully detailed. Here are some photos taken of it by another excellent modeler, Steve Olsen, at one of our NYCMTA Transit Modeling Shows back in 2018 -- see on EPTC Member Dave Gallagher's O Scale Module-sections of the PTC Bridge-Pratt Trolley & EL Terminal.
In PHOTOS BELOW - Your car is seen in 2018 on Dave's still long ongoing unfinished and underway EL Structure model construction of the Philly Frankford EL over Frankford Avenue as it was originally built. - Regards - Joe F
That scene brings back fond memories. Growing up in NE Philly, the Market/Frankford El or the EL was our way downtown. If I recall, there was a coffee shop across the trolley tracks. In the first photo, it would be to the right. Someone please correct me if I have my bearings wrong.
Hello Dan
YES -- there was a coffee shop across the street on the east side of the El and Frankford Ave --- here is a in the TOP PHOTO, from long ago -- it has been a McDonalds since the 1970's -- the as seen in the TWO BOTTOM photos
ABOVE --1922 photo looking southeast with the brick terminal building at left and you can see the sign for the Coffee Shop under the EL across Frankford Avenue - center near-top of photo.
ABOVE -- view northeast from near Pratt Street - 1981 SEPTA Strike I well remember -- and there is the McDonalds - former Coffee Shop location - across the El at top right
ABOVE -- looking southeast in 1978 from the bus lot just south of the brick Terminal Building area to the now McDonaldsStore where the former Coffee shop was.
Fond memories of the EL and this terminal and area from 1968 and thereafter -- but, heh, not so much the very high crime area NOW as is has been for the past 20 + years!!
Regards - Joe F
