Got a donation at the club today Looks like a shortened R1 in Standard gauge Its a little beat up but never knew something like this was made Had it running on the Snyder layout Anybody have any info on it?
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I would say a home made job from something else but it it very cool and different!I would stip it and do a repaint on it. You might want to post this over on the tinplate forum Ben you may grt more info over there.
Ben.
Didn't some guy from a New Jersey train store scratch build the R-1 cars around 20 years ago?
Seems like I remember it being in one TM videos !
Didn't some guy from a New Jersey train store scratch build the R-1 cars around 20 years ago?
Seems like I remember it being in one TM videos !
Not really sure We will be restoring it though Would love to reproduce these
Is it scratchbuilt? The body looks like a casting but I am not sure.
Originally Posted by bluelinec4:
Not really sure We will be restoring it though Would love to reproduce these
Would be a great new line for MTH
I would love to see you guy's reproduce them too. Just think how cool a string of those would look running around Tom's layout! I would be in for some of those!
Just found this from 2012
Originally Posted by Nate:
When the fair closed the B of T took the cars and installed them as a training module in the IND Signal school at 14th St. in Manhattan.
Nate
I recall seeing a photo that suggests that they built another module in O Gauge, using a Lionel RDC. It'd be neat if they subsequently upgraded that to one of the modern subway sets, but at the same time I could see why if they didn't bother).
---PCJ
Originally Posted by RailRide:
Originally Posted by Nate:
When the fair closed the B of T took the cars and installed them as a training module in the IND Signal school at 14th St. in Manhattan.
Nate
I recall seeing a photo that suggests that they built another module in O Gauge, using a Lionel RDC. It'd be neat if they subsequently upgraded that to one of the modern subway sets, but at the same time I could see why if they didn't bother).
---PCJ
When I was in signal school in 2005 they had a Williams RDC on the track and painted for NYC subways. I offered them some R17's but they said they could not accept them
Lionel made a Standard Gauge Prototype of the Hudson Tube Train back in the teens but it never went into production but I think someone was going to reproduce it but I don't think it made any progress.
