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Be the first to mass produce an O-gauge Osgood Bradley open trolley car that many many street car lines used. Perhaps the most famous open cars were those used by the Connecticut Company for transit to and from Yale Bowl football games.

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Also, reissue the Rail King 2-8-0, but do it in Long Island livery.

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Penn-Pacific,

That version of the 2-8-0 is fictional. The Long Island's Sunrise Special's motive power was first a 4-6-0 Camelback and later a G5 4-6-0. The Long Island's H Class 2-8-0s were all freight haulers that rarely were used in passenger service.

So if MTH replaces the Sunrise Special logo with "Long Island" in gold or white Railroad Roman style lettering like the Pennsy used, and numbers these engines in the range of 102 - 114, there will be a lot of happy Long Island customers.

 

PCJ,

Considering that Mike Wolf and his team recently found a way to produce the GE 44-Toner with a full suite  of PS 3 electronics, I think it is time to apply that technology into an Osgood Bradley open trolley car. MTH applied their S-Gauge electronics to make the new 44-Toner. I think that there is enough room below the floor of the trolley to mount the boards. Also, a bump-up into the aisle floor to make way for electronics would not detract from the car in my opinion.

I would be ecstatic to have an MTH Rail King Osgood Bradley car in Connecticut's Yale Bowl livery, in Brooklyn's BRT Cream & Maroon and in the Third Avenue Railway's livery.

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I think that the MTH Team is up to the challenge of designing and producing an open trolley car. The MTH Team's persistence with the GE 44-Tonner demonstrates that they can get it done. That Team has stuffed electronics into HO and S scale trains, so the technologies are there for applications into an open trolley car.

Preferably sooner than later, one of the O-gauge train companies is going to produce an open trolley car, so in my opinion it should an affordable MTH Rail King product.

Last edited by Bobby Ogage

I think I've seen them in 2-rail 'O',  (OGR ran a feature on someone's Connecticut traction layout years ago) but I couldn't say whether the open-bench cars were brass, kits or scratchbuilt.

One thing I do know is that the 44-tonner has something these streetcars don't--enclosed hoods to hide the motors. An open-bench streetcar would need at minimum, a drivetrain like the WBB Peter Witt, but not having one of those, I couldn't begin to speculate where they'd put the tachometer for PS3.

While getting PS3 into S and HO models is certainly a feat, is that really in the same league as hiding them  (along with the motor/drivetrain) under what is essentially a flatcar with crosswise benches and a clerestory roof?

---PCJ

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A protrusion into the aisle for electronics can be disguised / hidden by adding passengers in the surrounding seats. I remain of the opinion the the MTH Team can rise to the challenge of producing an open trolley car. Perhaps the biggest hurdle is convincing Mike Wolf to invest in the non-recurring costs to get such a trolley into production.

Open trolley cars have world wide appeal, so I think that market is ripe for an Osgood Bradley type of car in the MTH Rail King product line.

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Bobby Ogage posted:

. Perhaps the biggest hurdle is convincing Mike Wolf to invest in the non-recurring costs to get such a trolley into production.

 

And the second is getting all that innovation to market at a RailKing price point.

Have we ever seen anything that groundbreaking make it's debut in RK? We've seen innovations in Premier-priced goods that later on were incorporated into the RailKing line, but I don't recall off the top of my head any that began there.

---PCJ

Problem is that the "world-wide" appeal quite possibly would not result in sufficient sales to justify/amortize the capital cost of the tooling and design effort, at least not at a RailKing price.  Note the 44-ton is a Premier model, and priced higher than a RailKing diesel.  Same was true about the PS2 single motored Alco/GE/IR boxcab MTH produced about 10 years ago.

RailRide posted:
mwb posted:
 

If Q-car can make an under the floor drive in 2-rail, then someone can make one in 3-rail.

Some have come close, but none have crossed the line.

I can think of a few examples of O-scale traction I'd take home if only such a drivetrain existed.

---PCJ

Well, the vast majority of both Q-car and the older Wagner drives that were made for 2-rail operation were made un-insulated and set up for overhead power collection from the wire. 

If you don't have 3 rail switches to operate through that require the large 3-rail flanges, you probably could just add a center rail pick-up and then off you go.......

 

 

Development of a an o-gauge 3-rail power truck has applications to many products including subway & El cars, trolley street cars, interurban cars, electric commuter cars, steeple cab electric locomotives, automobiles & trucks, small yard engines, and maintenance of way equipment.

Models of early wood burning steam engines were made oversize to accommodate current can motor drives, but could be to scale with powered tender trucks.

I can envision powering Corgi models with 3-rail power trucks.

 

 

And, then, there's Northwest Shortline's new Stanton Drive trucks or their 'Magic Carpet' axle drive for O2R.  Pretty nifty, I'd say!  

I've bought 2 Stantons in HO to convert some early brass EMC Doodlebugs to a decent drive system. Extremely well engineered.  Available in a variety of wheelbase lengths, wheel diameter, tread profile.

Another thought for the FWIW repository.

KD

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