S gauge track is almost the perfect gauge for a 1/48-scale cable car.
Bob Nelson
Penny Trains Avert your eyes if you're the sensitive type.... https://www.abandonedamerica.us/end-of-the-line and also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/03/15/abandoned-america-trolley-graveyard/425043002/ Now if "taggers" would just stop vandalizing them the owner would be a much happier person.
Avert your eyes if you're the sensitive type....
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/end-of-the-line
and also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/03/15/abandoned-america-trolley-graveyard/425043002/
Now if "taggers" would just stop vandalizing them the owner would be a much happier person.
Sad to see them end up this way !
There's a great museum out here :
" Orange Empire", they've got a lot of Pacific Electric and L.A. Transit stuff.
Also a Ward Kimball barn, the last time I went !!
Penny Trains I bought a 1:48 cablecar kit so I could try to model this: Note the destination board.
I bought a 1:48 cablecar kit so I could try to model this:
Note the destination board.
O.K., by the clothes, I'm figuring this shot to be '68, give or take....
Try this...
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-trolley-graveyard
I fail to understand why anyone would collect an assortment like this just to let it rot. Maybe I should be fair and think maybe he's tried to sell them off but has had no takers. According to the article he does sell the parts.
In the meantime it looks like nature's trying to reclaim the lot of them.
Flintlock76 Penny Trains Avert your eyes if you're the sensitive type.... https://www.abandonedamerica.us/end-of-the-line and also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/03/15/abandoned-america-trolley-graveyard/425043002/ Now if "taggers" would just stop vandalizing them the owner would be a much happier person. Try this... https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-trolley-graveyard I fail to understand why anyone would collect an assortment like this just to let it rot. Maybe I should be fair and think maybe he's tried to sell them off but has had no takers. According to the article he does sell the parts. In the meantime it looks like nature's trying to reclaim the lot of them.
The only ones I can I.D. are the Boston cars- the green ones with the " T" on the side. Maybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ?
Yes! The drive mechanisms are awesome! Definitely go if you are in the area!
Regards, Roy
Well, at least it illustrates the paint scheme !
Boston has a top notch transit system. The green line goes to North Station, which shows on the front of one of the cars. My daughter and I used to play with these wooden trains when she was small. Still means something to us, but not a serious model...
She gave it to me as a momento...
Postwar PaulMaybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ?
I recognize this one:
RTA (Regional Transit Authority) succeeded CTS, the Cleveland Transit System.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Thank you !
I've seen that paint scheme, but couldn't place it.
Penny Trains Postwar Paul Maybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ? I recognize this one: RTA (Regional Transit Authority) succeeded CTS, the Cleveland Transit System.
Postwar Paul Maybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ?
Paul
Here's what a PCC looked like in Cleveland Railway colors:
Raymond Loewy designed the scheme. My favorite Cleveland transit photo:
Ummmm....maybe we should have built the line somewhere else?
Penny Trains Here's what a PCC looked like in Cleveland Railway colors: Raymond Loewy designed the scheme. My favorite Cleveland transit photo: Ummmm....maybe we should have built the line somewhere else?
Famous industrial designers of the 1930's. Otto Kuhler, Henry Dreyfus, and the renowned Raymond Loewy, who did so much to shape the image of the PRR.
When he first came to the Pennsylvania to offer his services he was an unknown quantity, so they gave him the job of redesigning the trash cans in Penn Station. He must have done an amazing job, for next they gave him the GG1 assignment. The engine was complete mechanically, but the body was covered with visible rivets. Loewy's contribution was a sleek welded body, and the now famous 5 thin stripes that arc down and almost meet in the front. Sheer genius !!!
Not to mention the look of the unique and very stylish T1 Duplex. His touch is very tasteful once again in the Cleveland PCC's.
"Classic Trains" did a "Big GG1" issue several years back, a good one too.
Turns out the original GG1 shell was designed by an gent from the PRR's engineering department named Donald Dohner. It was "...almost, but not quite there..." as far as looks go.
What Raymond Loewy did was use the Dohner shell and take it the rest of the way into the GG1 we're all familiar with. It's much better looking than the Dohner concept.
https://www.streetcar.org/tag/ofarrell-jones-hyde-line/
Check it out ! The original line from back in the day !
There is a section that the cars ran Against traffic on a one way street !
On the table at Powell and Market.
Ascending Powell : grades run up to 17%.
Beautiful piece of equipment! I'd say it's better than new!
And the turntable and street look so clean you could eat off 'em! Not that I'd try though...
Some of these cars are original. Of course refurbished. Some were built new. Let me grab my notes...
The Powell and California street lines cross. California street cars are double ended, with 2 grip positions. Car 56 is an original car from the O'Farrell, Jones and Hyde, which also used double Enders.
Car 13 was built new. Powell cars are single ended, and must be turned.
Car 5 is an original, rebuilt in '56.
Car 54 is an original from the California Street line. The octagonal structure has a signal man for the crossing.
15 is all new. The cars wear different liveries to represent different cable lines, and also the different paint schemes that were used at different times.
25 is original, rebuilt in '76.
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