Electric Avenue

https://youtu.be/bLrHWXmkbPM

Gotta love those LGB E-1 steeple cabs! I have the dark blue/beige 2030E with black pinstriping.

This isn't heavy electric...but my Sierra Street Railway is still electric.  (The trolley is an old General Models birney  with a handcar motor truck).  Runs fine.

                                                                                                                                 Logan

Fortescue and Norma Bates Kitteh are dubious about this test fitting...

And promptly go into conference on the subject...

More as things develop.  

Mitch 

Juice Jack's are way COOL, whatever gauge or scale!

Here are a few:

How they are powered without catenary or outside third rail:    

Jim

Jim Policastro posted:

How they are powered without catenary or outside third rail:    

Brilliant!  I'm jealous that I didn't think of that!  

Mitch 

NOTHING wrong with imaginary catenary - NO worse than 3 rails or static figures! Imagination is a huge part of our hobby - deal with it! 

Jim Policastro: That Tesla Power Station is PRICELESS! LOL!

Tinplate Art posted:

NOTHING wrong with imaginary catenary - NO worse than 3 rails or static figures! Imagination is a huge part of our hobby - deal with it! 

Certainly imagination is critical with any modeling effort, trains or otherwise, but the lack of catenary crosses my line of an Imagination Bridge Too Far. Now, I love electrics, have several, but I find myself running only the NYC/some NH because these were outside third-rail locos (yes, the NH - some - were both). Being a NYC fan, running my P-2, T-3 and S-1/S-2 would be a tendency anyway. My third rail is in the wrong place (the middle), but it is far less "wrong" than pantographs reaching for power that will never come. My under-running, 2-rail/outside third rail NYC project never got started; no room for it, and I'm getting older. The engineering would have been interesting. 

It's a funny thing that even a "pointless pantograph" GG1 is worlds closer internally to the prototype than any of our steamers (no water in the "boiler") or diesels (no fuel in the "tank" - unless they run on "refined speaker"), but it just looks so silly.

Who needs catenary?  Certainly not Jim P. with his wireless Tesla electric distribution system.

Hal

Marty Fitzhenry posted:

Marty, your layout and in particular, your catenary system is truly inspiring.

I have run under actual catenary with my LGB crocodile locos but never with my O gauge juicejacks. Either way I always had FUN! Menard's should make a licensed model of Jim's Tesla Power Station!  LOL!

This is my smallest. Don

Very nice!  Who built that?

I did with my 3-D printer. Don

Ah, yes.  I recall now.  Quite a nice loco! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...arztBvtkhO4&t=17

I guess I like electrics

  " I guess I like electrics "     I'd say...  NICE collection !!

ALL NICE engines! I divested myself of all my O gauge models except for a Bachmann/Williams PCC in New York City green/silver livery in a display case. I do have an LGB 2030E E1 steeple cab in blue/beige livery with black pinstriping, an LGB  2040 RhB brown "baby" crocodile #414 with authentic digital sounds, and finally an MTH dark green 408E. Electrics RULE!

briansilvermustang posted:

  " I guess I like electrics "     I'd say...  NICE collection !!

Thanks Brian! Forgot a few too ....  Also not pictured but in my collection are my O scale P5as - modified and box cab, 2 HO E60s, an N scale E 60, an HO brass 4 wheel electric switcher based on a Japanese prototype, and 5 HO trolleys.  I've always enjoyed electrics since I was very young. 

3 scales of Metroliners

O and HO

HO & N (custom painted cab car I did back in the 90's.)

One off home-built GG1 in HO

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue" soon, but I want to follow this and I don't want to wait on that button to work for me today  

Growing up in Brooklyn and Queens in NYC 1942-1961, there was plenty of electric action on the surface, in the air and underground! Many "fallen flags" still existed and the all the rides were great! BMT Standards, open platform cars on the old Myrtle Ave. El, LIRR Mu's, Lackawanna dark green MU's out of Hoboken, GGI'S and DD1's in Sunnyside Yard, Brooklyn and Queens trolleys, NYC S class and T class electrics, and many others! Those, INDEED, "were the days", and I remember them well! I have NEVER stopped loving electric traction, except of course, diesels! My nickname for diesels is infernal combustion! LOL!

The rest of my electrics.

And somewhere there is a Scale Williams green GG1.

Ron

My feet been coooaal draggin'

Half the utility bills?A holiday stop.

Gee..GEE ! One really juices me up most; coming or going.

I love this ones ornate panels .

Franken Trolley?

Aka.... Electric Funeral                        A Red Devil. A real cross state high speed interurban at 80+mph. " The Airplane racing champs" of their day "back when"

                        very COOL stuff ADRIATIC

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