Apples55 posted:WNEP announced on their 5:30 news that someone has donated a trolley themed tractor trailer to go down to a warehouse in NJ on Friday to pick up the train display. They are still not saying where it will be set up when they get back to Scranton.
The trailer was created a couple years ago by Road Scholar Transport to promote the restoration of Scranton Transit trolley #505. The car body was really bad off when we started the project and not easy to display, so the trailer has come in handy for many events.
Our involvement with WNEP's backyard train was about three years in the making. We had a verbal agreement that they would run a model of a Scranton trolley along with the train, if we could supply one. We were granted permission to modify a spare unit from the museum, which had to be returned a short time later when their main G-scale unit died. We eventually secured another one, and after a custom paint job, presented it to the station on the air. They use it on fair weather days and the response has been (mostly) positive.
We were pretty much shocked to hear that the backyard train and our trolley model had made it before a national audience. I just finished folding and boxing a whole bunch of Project 505 t-shirts, which we are sending along on the trailer as a thank you.
Sadly, I do not have any recent photos of the car. The fabricator, AES LLC, is literally down to the last 5% of the the metal work and the car will be at the media blaster's in about a month. Look for a HUGE reveal between Halloween and Thanksgiving!
We are a non-profit and would love to keep our momentum going - any donations are appreciated.
https://www.facebook.com/scrantontrolley505
