Buses. Got 'em? Trolleys, too?

Very nice pics and layout!

Tour bus with added lighting

A few on my layout.

Frank, great photos and topic on buses.

Moonson posted:

Gotta like those public transportation vehicles. They were omnipresent during my childhood in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

So, my layout would not have been thorough unless I had a least a few....

How about you?

FrankM.

I've been thinking a lot about trackless trollies.  The electric buses ran in Cleveland up to 1961.  There were HO models by Eheim and AristoCraft back then.  I see them on eBay and ones in excellent condition command a hefty price.  This is a model that is missing from our layouts and I've considered building a few in O gauge.  There are fine scale O gauge trolley bus models available made in Russia.  The paint jobs are not correct for Cleveland.  The Russian models are in the $500 range.

Just one more project on the list.  

I did try to convince Lionel to make these for SuperStreets when Mike was there.  No one but Mike had a clue as to what they were.

Lou N

Moonson posted:

Gotta like those public transportation vehicles. They were omnipresent during my childhood in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

So, my layout would not have been thorough unless I had a least a few....

How about you?

FrankM.

Great modeling as always, Frank.

Too bad the combination of "too small" 1:50 buses and relatively "too big" 1:43 autos is visually jarring, and photographing them together tends to exaggerate the problem.  What we need is a good selection of 1:48 vehicles, or at least a better selection of 1:43 buses.

Pete

Anybody introduced more busses or trolleys to layouts since we last posted on this thread?

FrankM

General Motors Bus - New England Transportation Company

MELGAR

Buses? I have a few; American, British, German and French.. Also have streetcars and trolleys. I use an old American Flyer station and an MTH Greyhound Bus Station as an Intermodal Transportation Center. I like all forms of transportation.

Yes John, I'ld say you have a few!!!  They all look great as does the Greyhound terminal!!

Moonson posted:

Anybody introduced more busses or trolleys to layouts since we last posted on this thread?

FrankM

I haven't added anything but I do remember buying an O scale trolley bus that was plaster and cast in a rubber mold.  I need to find that and clean it up.  Make a new mold and cast it in urethane or epoxy.

Somehow I do get the feeling I am the only one that had in interest in trolley busses.  Somehow those were the highlight of the 50's and 60's.

Lou N

Buses in Patsburg.

I once had a half dozen of your buses. I haven't seen them in about 25 years. I bet some of the younger family members took them home. More likely the  parents thinking the toys belonged to them actually.

Not a beauty shot, but I love my MTH trolley, and my style bus or "railbus" as it sits now 

Then there's Frankentrolley for any "other than biped" deliveries.

Moonson,

    Pittsburgh and surrounding areas had Street Cars not Trolleys, and those of us in my era had a ball riding them, the conductors knew every kid on their route and we for the most part road for free under their watchful eye.

PCRR/Dave

P&LE Station watch your step!   Man those were the days.

Transportation for the folks wearing stripes.

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Moonson,

   Pittsburgh and surrounding areas had Street Cars not Trolleys, and those of us in my era had a ball riding them, the conductors knew every kid on their route and we for the most part road for free under their watchful eye.

PCRR/Dave

 

 

Yes, indeed.

FrankM, of the McKeesport, Duquesne, Homestead, Glassport, Braddock, Munhall, Oakland, Squirrel Hill, Fox Chapel, and "Downtown" (at Kaufman's) streetcar stops.

I'd love to get my hands on a NYC Transit GMC Fishbowl ... those are the buses I grew up riding. Brings back some serious memories.

 I've worked as a school bus mechanic for over 40 years in a family business. I found a Russian bus at a train show a while back. It resembled something you would see in the 30's. School buses back then could be any color. Not just yellow. I think I spent more for the black labeling tape to letter it than the bus itself. Also added some Arttista figures.

One of my more unusual buses is a Solido model of a 1940's-era Renault Parisian city bus. On my layout, it is used as a tour bus. I also attach a photo of the prototype at a French museum.

Other than Die Cast Direct what are other websites for buses

Thanks

 One I converted to a lunch wagon the other is GREEN

   S.I. Bus album link here -https://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/4953

jackiejr posted:

 One I converted to a lunch wagon the other is GREEN

The yellow pickup behind the tree, VW, Econoline, A-100, Chev, or other? 

My last A-100 window van was originally a small rural Texas school bus from 69 till....? The US design cab-over vans began in 62 or 63 I think. Dodge had the biggest payload capability of these types.

Dave_C posted:

 I've worked as a school bus mechanic for over 40 years in a family business. I found a Russian bus at a train show a while back. It resembled something you would see in the 30's. School buses back then could be any color. Not just yellow. I think I spent more for the black labeling tape to letter it than the bus itself. Also added some Arttista figures.

The last bus like this I saw was an original, a showpiece at Rat Rod shows. It spent part of it's life as a school bus, part as a prison bus for chain gangs. Which if you do some research would be very prototypical along a southern lines of the era, with the prisoners doing forced labor on the RR.

I'd love to have some buses, interstate, intercity, and local transit, but the ones I can find cost about what I paid for each of my first three cars back in high school days.

Nice stuff fellas 

Some shots I’ve done of the buses.. 

Jaw-dropping modeling and photography, Mr. Lindgren. Thanks for contributing such beautiful work to the thread, for us all to enjoy.

FrankM.

Once again, I thought Eric's buses were photographs of a real city!  So they are more photographs of Eric's great modeling!  Excellent, Eric!

AHM used to have a wired trolley bus system.

Tuesday Morning about 15-20 years ago had bunches of Corgi O buses in the Corpus Christi store.  About 10 bucks a bus.  Got some for East and West coast so Ivcoud switch them out.

Does anybody make a double decked Van Hool for Mega?

Mark Boyce posted:

Once again, I thought Eric's buses werephotographs of a real city!  So they are more photographs of Eric's great modeling!  Excellent, Eric!

I had the exact same reaction you did, Mark; however, when I looked further, several times, the first photo has a ceiling-wall intersection that is visible in the top-left corner of the photo. That was my clue, to which I added his wonderful reputation for such skills, and felt I might be looking at modeling in all the photos. Then I clicked-on his avatar picture of himself and when I saw it enlarged, I concluded the building he showed with himself was the tall one at the bottom of the photo array.

Such fun!

FrankM

Thankfully this VIA Rail bus was available to rescue the passengers stranded by the unreliable TurboTrain

Greyhound keeps a few historic coaches on hand

Some are relegated to display off the layout.  A variety of Corgi PCC's, a Western Hobbycraft Trolley, MTH PCC, and a Corgi "New Look" bus decorated in Kent State University's "Campus Bus Service" colors rest on a shelf.

Here are my trolley's...err streetcars...

Technically, streetcar and trolley are different, but I've used both terms interchangeably.

And my sole bus...

Jackiejr posted this photo of a station...

I have seen this station before. BTW I love it. Was it covered by one the magazines or an OGR forum post? 

Buses variety on  layouts, continued...if you please...

FrankM