I got a request to show my trolleys or streetcars in another thread. We might as well make it a trolley line thread.
At the present time because of limited space I have a very small and limited trolley line. The initial line is a small Super / EZ streets D16 oval and a D21 oval is is on order. I have an Atlas O Industrial Rail Los Angeles Transit trolley, a K-line trolley, a SPTC PCC car and a Corgi two rail PCC from another time. I am being tempted by a Bachmann Peter Witt.
My plan is to eventually create a L shaped figure 8 trolley layout with the 90 degree junction as a transfer corner (a place where trolley lines met and the traffic attracted larger buildings and businesses). At this point I really only have one building, a MTH Automat and I have a partially completed shoe shine stand.
I like the Atlas and K-Line trolleys because of their clerestory roofs.
The Atlas O trolley seems to be based on New Orleans Public Service 453. This group of wooden trolleys was built in 1906 by the American Car Company to the Brill Semi-Convertible designed as 300-324 for the New Orleans Railway & Light Co. In 1918 the cars were renumbered 450-474, the semi-convertible sides were removed, steel sides and platforms ends were installed--which explains why a wooden trolley would have rivets!! All 450s were scrapped in 1935 except NOPS 453 which survived as a non-operating training car and currently resides in the St. Charles line Carrolton barn unrestored.
Similar cars also built in 1906 ran in Lisbon, Portugal until 1996, with being heavily modified and 8 out of the original 40 almost entirely intact after 90 years.
The K-Line trolley is over sized height-wise but is very close for length and width. These 1906 Brooklyn trolleys could be operated as closed cars in the winter or open cars in the summer. The K-Line model shows the winter configuration.
