G scale subway cars

[Anonymous]

I thought some people here may be interested in this product. http://www.drastic.com/item.php?id=DPTTS-1000&session=f49ab414239f66a073c4a01cbe55a0b4

In many posts I hear how young(er) people are not interested in trains. I dont really feel that is true. This Drastic Plastic company is making these blank subway car models for kids to tag up. They held a tagging event in November in conjunction with the 100th anniversery of the subway in NYC.

It's funny this is really a nostalgia product because you NEVER see tagged subway cars anymore. The MTA is diligent about this. The kids buying and tagging these models are probably too young to remember tagged subway cars in the first place.

In my opinion these kids are a potential new market for toy trains if they knew about the O scale MTH subway stuff....The quality of model building and detail in the art of these modelers is really impressive. They seem like they are molded in halfs so they can be displayed as two half models or one whole one. I don't know the scale but at 22 inches long it could be close to 1/32 scale G and scales out to about 55 fett long.

Has anyone seen these? They sell them in "cool" toy collector stores and comic shops two definitely non traditional places to find realistic train models. How easy would it be to convert to run on track? You could have your own little Bronx on the garden.

PS. I know alot of people have stong feelings on tagging and graffiti. This I feel is besides the point. We all have had this conversation. People have chosen sides and nothing can be said to change thier minds. It is like "MTH people" and "Lionel people" arguement. Please do not flame me or turn this into a "merits of graffiti art" topic.

[vsmith]

22 inches is about right for G, I wouldnt be too surprised if two halfs could be glued together, cut out the windows, build out an interior and add a bachmann or like chassis under it, Whallah! a G subway or metro car! yeah, maybe a bit more scratchbuilding but it might be done?

[Anonymous]

Today at a Toy's Are Us I saw some Spiderman toys that could also step in as a "shorty" style of G scale subway car with the same modifications discibed above. These even have a painted interior but again no windows or wheels/couplers. They were going for $19 each.

[Anonymous]

Looks good to me also, probably easier than shorting and then installing doors onto Aristo-Craft or USA Trains passenger cars.


Mikadousrp

[Anonymous]

Whats a subway car?

Ian the curious

[Anonymous]

Subway cars are self propelled passenger cars usually found in urban areas.They are usually p[owered by a third electrifiyed rail. Oten they are underground but sometimes they are elevated on piers over the street. These cars are patterned after the ones found in New York City where more people ride the subway train everyday than drive automobiles.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor

Whats a subway car?

Ian the curious

Ian for someone whos traveled as much as you seam to have I'm a bit surprised by this comment and assume your just yanking our leash[:D]

When you finally get around to visiting New York CIty you will always have an indelable memory of the wonderfull subway system below the city streets, with the warm curtious employees, clean cut passengers, and spotless equipment.....











FOOLED YOU!!!!!!
I've been in porta-potties at rock concerts that were cleaner than some stations. The reason they could close Belview Psychiatric hospital was that they just put all the patients onto the subway trains, and some of the equipment is still from the same era of King Kong's triumphal NY debut! [:p][:)][:D][;)][8D][:0][:o)]

Subway : American mass transit system operating underground in a tunnelled system,
England = London Underground/Tube ( smells the same as NYC )
French = Paris Metro ( very nice, except for the LaDog Poope everywhere!)
Los Angeles = Metro Red Line (nice, It just doesnt seam to go anywhere)

[Anonymous]

When you have a couple million people a day walk through your living room I am sure it will not smell like roses (unless you think of roses as in that Outkast song). Best public transport in the world runs 24-7-365 and is 100 years old = NYC subway.

Homeless and mentally ill people should have a place to go to stay warm too. It is just that on the subway you can't keep your window rolled up and step on the gas like you can in your auto in the suburbs. You can't ignore that there is a problem and you shouldn't be allowed to. One week after Christmas and already bashing poor people.

Hobos are romantic and "railroady" but homeless are not. Think about it, are they any different.

I was on the subway Sept. 11, 2001. Only three others made it in to work that day, all on the subway. When the subway was forced to stop running I had to walk from 37 St. to the Bronx to get home.

As far as "old" cars the redbirds that you presumably speak of came along after K.Kong. and were retired in groups with the final handful early last year.

[Anonymous]

Vic mate you are right, I know very well what subway cars are and I am yanking your leash. What i am trying to do is to impress on us all that this is an international forum and what is commomn knowledge in one place may be unknown oer even mean something completely different in other countries.

We call them trams and this is a point of much derision, Australia has only two super cities in this huge country and one of them (Melbourne) just loves their trams. The other Sydney got rid of them from about 1960 on, and I can tell you getting rid of them in Sydney was like getting out of gaol (jail). They now have reintroduced trams disguised as light rail and they are ok as a novelty item.

An interesting anecdote here, I have actually been to New York both the city and the city and the state and I was most impressed with the light rail running out along Long Island. Years later I was chatting up an American lady in a bar in Florence (Italy), she was from long Island and i mentioned said light rail and she denied it existed and reckoned I had never been to Long Island. Fortunately some one standing nearby was also from New York and convinced her I was right.

So the moral of this story is, if you are chatting up a lady never win an argument.


Rgds Ian