The kitbashed Niles Car, based upon a similar car from the Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway that is now a Diner in Edinboro, Pa, is coming along bit by bit. Starting with a LaBelle kit; there are parts from many makers of O Traction details in this car, East Gary; Conrad Baut, Q Car, Wagner, Precision Scale......
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Great looking job so far, what are you gonna use for the collector???
Marty
CM,
Great looking Niles Car, real nice work!
PCRR/Dave
Great looking job so far, what are you gonna use for the collector???
Marty
Poles from Q-Car, Marty. It is getting DCC, too, the card will be in the express compartment.
CM,
Great looking Niles Car, real nice work!
PCRR/Dave
Thank you, Dave! It started as the LaBelle Ohio Electric combine kit, drastically re-worked. Niles 1913 combines built for the NWP Ry had the same kind of windows so I used it as a starting point. Last night the car got a Precision Scale cowcatcher put on it.
A bit further along, MU jumpers on the passenger compartment end, grabs installed, cowcatcher on the baggage/express end. The car that this is based on carried express for "Electric Fast Freight Lines"
Coming along nicely, nicely....
Drop me a note sometime - martinwb (at) verizon (dot) net
It looks great!
Jeff C
C.M.: Now you're starting to inspire me! I have a project that I started probably 40+ years ago. I was shooting for a reasonable model of a Wisconsin Power and Light car that once ran between Sheboygan, Plymouth and Elkhart Lake, all in Wisconsin. They had three cars of the same series and were double ended, wooden interurban cars from around 1908.
Amazingly, one is still in existence and is operable. Back in 1972, a friend of mine and I found the body on the county line road between Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties, about 500' from the shore of Lake Michigan. Only the body remained, of course, and it was in use as a summer home for a lady from the area. Inside the car still had all of it's original light fixtures, four original seats, both roll signs and some other hardware from when it had been in use. The last time the car ran on it's own wheels as an interurban was 1938, so a find like this was very remarkable.
When we began to find out more information about the car, the lady was the Mother of a minister in Cedarburg and they had an interest in preserving the car, but wanted to make sure their Mother could stay in it as long as she remained alive. She did pass away some ten years or so later and not only did the family donate the car body to the East Troy Trolley Museum, they actually ran a fund raising drive to cover quite a bit of the cost of it's restoration.
Make a long story short, the car was professionally restored in it's original orange and cream, has seats, trucks, motors and controls that the museum located for the car, and on special occasions it is used for certain events.
So, since I had a hand in getting that car saved, it is more than significant to me that I have a model of same. I started the project using Indianapolis Car Company (a company formed by Vane Jones the original publisher/founder of "0" Scale Railroading" and "Traction and Models" magazines.) plastic parts, cut to fit and glued together, a wooden roof with clerestory windows and some interior parts. But about that time, I moved, changed jobs, got married and lost interest in it.
Now you have me inspired! I'm going to have to dig that old model out and get back to work on it!
Paul Fischer
Looks great
Wow ..... nice work!
fisch330 posted:C.M.: Now you're starting to inspire me! I have a project that I started probably 40+ years ago. I was shooting for a reasonable model of a Wisconsin Power and Light car that once ran between Sheboygan, Plymouth and Elkhart Lake, all in Wisconsin. They had three cars of the same series and were double ended, wooden interurban cars from around 1908.
Amazingly, one is still in existence and is operable. Back in 1972, a friend of mine and I found the body on the county line road between Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties, about 500' from the shore of Lake Michigan. Only the body remained, of course, and it was in use as a summer home for a lady from the area. Inside the car still had all of it's original light fixtures, four original seats, both roll signs and some other hardware from when it had been in use. The last time the car ran on it's own wheels as an interurban was 1938, so a find like this was very remarkable.
When we began to find out more information about the car, the lady was the Mother of a minister in Cedarburg and they had an interest in preserving the car, but wanted to make sure their Mother could stay in it as long as she remained alive. She did pass away some ten years or so later and not only did the family donate the car body to the East Troy Trolley Museum, they actually ran a fund raising drive to cover quite a bit of the cost of it's restoration.
Make a long story short, the car was professionally restored in it's original orange and cream, has seats, trucks, motors and controls that the museum located for the car, and on special occasions it is used for certain events.
So, since I had a hand in getting that car saved, it is more than significant to me that I have a model of same. I started the project using Indianapolis Car Company (a company formed by Vane Jones the original publisher/founder of "0" Scale Railroading" and "Traction and Models" magazines.) plastic parts, cut to fit and glued together, a wooden roof with clerestory windows and some interior parts. But about that time, I moved, changed jobs, got married and lost interest in it.
Now you have me inspired! I'm going to have to dig that old model out and get back to work on it!
Paul Fischer
Very cool story Paul. No hurry, you've still got about 40 years before your behind schedule, lol. I'd rather like to see the finished rendering when it's complete. Thanks for sharing
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