Random Photos of Trolley Cars

Atlantic Short Line Cars

briansilvermustang posted:

 

Nice!  There were a lot of interurbans used for freight, I'd love to see Lionel issue one with the milk car mechanism.  

The Laurel Line in Scranton/Wilkes-barre also used several freight motors.  One of these days I will get around to putting a modified #60 trolley body on a #520 box cab frame.  

Take a milk can car and kitbash it in to a freight trolley. Wish I had room on my layout for an interurban line. Love those old cars. They did a lot of "kitbashing" themselves.

Bobby Ogage posted:

An interesting note about this paint scheme:  You'd find schemes like this all over the country.  As I understand it,  this was at the behest of the banks;  if one property went bankrupt,  they could sell the cars to another property without needing to repaint...   

rex desilets posted:

The car is, I think, heading into the 69th St terminal. On the street to the left used to be Todd's Hobby Shop, wherein I spent numerous hours when in High School.

I bought my second trolley (a Bowser Brill) at Todd's in the 1970s...   

Mitch 

Traction Orange & cream are my favorite trolley car colors. I had no idea the banks had a hand in paint schemes with those colors. Thanks for info Mitchell@!

I am guessing that this car is in Somerset, Kentucky.

Somewhere in California????

Well, went for my interview with Herzog Transit Services today, the firm for maintaining and operating the streetcar line in Oklahoma City.  I believe it went well, will know more in the next week.   Looking forward to the running being in operation first of next year.  They will not be as extensive as the interurbans that ran until the 1940's, but plan to expand at later date, depending upon the efficiency of first phase.  Cars are built by the Brookline Equipment Corp. in Pennsylvania.  There will be some areas of running off overhead cantenary power,  the remainder of routes to run with onboard lithium batteries.  There are to be an initial seven cars running, each with a 100 persons capacity.

  I suppose I may be looking for some O gauge Herzog hopper cars.  I have seen them, somewhere, and perhaps on lines in real time while working around the four directions of our great country.  Getting closer to beginning my new adventure... as an engineer/operator of rail running, passenger carrying, loving every minute mode of transportation.  Will be posting pics of the streetcars soon.....

Jesse     TCA  12-68275

A few more trolley pictures from Greenpoint Brooklyn

Van Alstyne Texas Car 509

Van Alstyne Texas Car 501

Van Alstyne Texas Car 504

Car body by Island Modelworks;           details and trucks by Q car company                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

In Ashland, Pa

That is an early picture of the Units in the orange, black, and silver paint scheme designed by Alan Atkins.   The skirts around the trucks have not been cut back yet. But it is intersesting to see how dark the roof looks.  They were painted with aluminum paint and usually looked good except for a little graphite stain in the center that came off the trolley wire. 

Atlantic City Transportation Co.

Shore Fast Line

Shore Fast line crossing the long trestle over the basin of Great Egg Harbor River

Shore Fast Line Car 108

Shore Fast Line Cars 104 & 109