daveklepper... to fit inside the boiler of an American Flyer HO Hudson to convert it to polarity reversal...
I notice you were discussing the S gauge universal-motor stuff on CTT a couple of weeks ago, but I don't know enough to search over there for American Flyer HO discussions...
American Flyer offered only one HO locomotive, a somewhar simplified Central J1 Hudson with six-wheel tender. It had the same sequential reversal as the S-Gauge models. Pittman, who supplied DC permanent-magnet motors for Varney, Mantua, and others, sold a permanent magnet that fit inside the Hudson and cnverterd the "univeral" motor to a DC permanent-magnet motor. This gave 2-rail polarity reversal, standard for Mantua, Varney, etc.
After leaving the nearby Pitman factory, that evening
a Liberty Bell car
approaching, same road crossing, same direction, Allentown-bound Liberty Bell approaching.
Close inspection required a caption correction for the photo above.
And idenitying the grade crossing, looking in the oppsite direction, with a Philadelphia-bound car:
Jim Shuman photo from Richard Allman
Brush siding, north of Norristown, named Brush due to the vegitation:
With a bit more electronic-darkroom work, including some from Richard Allman. the vegetation is much better represented:
A Quakertown - Perkasie local car on 5th St., Perkasie, on the Liberty Bell route:
The wye to turn the ex-C&LE (and ex-Indiana) LVT Liberty Bell single-end interurban cars at Philadelphia (69th St.) terminal was some doistance west of the terminal, requiring rearp-end -first with the hostler controller for auite a distance, analogous to thr turn-around in Allentown, involving rear-end-first moves to and from the Fairchance yard, partly shown in an earler post:
This photo really belongs between the 2nd and 3d of the preceding post. Note the operator (motorman, engineer, driver) using the back-up controller in the left seen through the window.
812 on a fan-trip at School Siding, Center Valley:
Same fan-trip, interior photo:
Biehn’s Bridge along Township Line Road between Telford and Sellersville:
Covering some local lines in Allrntown, wiwesth an 1100 ex-Darton & Troy Cininnati lightweight, here on 12th Street near the West End Cemiyary:
On 12th Street, adjacent to the cemetary:
Turning south from Gorden to 17th Street:
At Allentown Hospital, 17th and Chew Streets:
Interior:
Location information from Richard Allman.
Back to regular service, leaving Quaker siding and entering Quakertown, with the station behind my back:
Unusual view at School Siding, Center Valley:
Monestary Siding, Lanarch:
North Sixth Street, southbound:
Unless otherwise specified, photos are in Allrentown on local streetcar lines.
1100, rear, turning from Wasington ton 6th Street:
Probably on N. 10th Street:
A deeply shadowed northbound Liberty Bell car at Marshall Siding, Noirristown, where LVT and P&W crews xchanged. The Reading Norristown comuter-line terminal is in the right backround. RIchard Allman provided the location.
812 on a fan btrip on e short street-runnubg single-track in Sauderton to the sauderton car-house. Again, Richard Allman provided the location:
Sweeper A10 in front of the Souderton carhouse, and 812 again on that fan-trip in a typical location.
400 American 1926 Wisconsin Pblic Service to 1938
End of the line in Northampton on Main Street at 21st Street
AboveL Inbound on Greenawalts line- Where it turned from Roth Avenue onto Albrights Avenue
End of the Line at Greenawalts
Three photos, Fullerton Junction at Park and 4th Streets, Fllertom
927 Brill purchased new
3rd Street NB in Fullerton. 3rd St. was an extension of Allentown's Fullerton Ave., which bitself was an extebnsionb of Front Street/
410 Kuhlman 1923 Ohio Electric Railway to 1923
Inbound @ Bridge Street Siding in West Catasaqua on Northampton line.
Credits: Richard Allman supplied all location and car-builder data. John Stern chose most of my photo locations and the rides in his car to-and-from Allentown that made the ERA, 1948, age 16, affordable for me.
Captions have been corrected, and I hope to post some more pictures in the nest few days. I apologize that corrections were needed.
Dry Run Bridge, between Northampton and Catasauqua. 400 is southbound, returning to Allentown
Liberty Bell car entering Allentown on St. Johns Street and then seen just before turning onto South 8th Street for the run to the 8th & Hamilton store-front station:
South Betlahem Line,
daveklepper Side of road view-looking east on Broadway between Fountain Hill and Gauff’s Hill along Broadway on South Bethlehem-Allentown line.
Interesting photo. Road is paved, but it looks like the trolley ROW is dirt. Lack of sidewalks, with fences up to curb. Pedestrians would either be dodging cars or trolleys.
Senaca Avenue in Fountain Hill. the sidin on that street:
Location corrected by Richard Allman
And corrected again.
The Fairview line was partly single-track, with its teerminal at the carhouuse and yard of that name. 964 is ex-Williamsport. The track is along Cumberland Street.
And this photo has been improved, in part by somevwork by Richard Allman:
Richard Allman has corrected on the photo of the Fairview car. The Fairview Carhose and yard was at the end of thee Fairview Line, and there was a stretch of single track aside Cumberland Street, as pictured, on that line.
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