@Petemonster62 Should you be so lucky to visit the Netherlands sometime, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague have an innercity streetcar network with new but also old trams. Do you want to ride with old trams visit the national heritage museum near Arnhem. My dad´s tramdriver for funtrips around the park being a retired volunteer. Pity, Arnhem got rid of the trolleybuses as well as the tramways... Google Earth 52 00 44 15 N, 5 54 40 90 E
@Petemonster62 That´s right. Mehano/AHM/IHC LRV´s are still to be found on ebay though! some 60 dollar they often do. SF Munis more, MBTA's harder to find. An MC Fachgeschaefte advertised one only seen in Europe so far. I was lucky to find one. Mehano has made a lot of thalys, ICE, TGV, Pacific, Rio Bravo (wild west) toy sets with lay-outs, buildings, bridges etc. completed from 60 up to 130 euro (75-150 $) so very affordable and nice to start with! Only PIKO is left now for affordable stuff.
Did International Hobby Corporation offer an HO model of these LRV trolleys at one time? I recall seeing an ad of theirs in either Model Railroader or Model Railroad Craftsman showing an LRV trolley in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
@Petemonster62 5302-02 by AHM, M9385 by IHC or T034/27393 by Mehano; Mehanotechnica Izola Yugoslavia, where all 3 models were manifactured. This one Boston MBTA, a white with yellow/orange band San Fransisco Muni SFMR and a special edition MC (modellbahn center) Fachgeschaefte advertising on the sides
if you've designed your overhead wiring for pantographs, it will be rather difficult if not impossible for the poles to be used as the overhead wiring for pantographs and poles varies. take a switch for example, when it comes to pantographs, the overhead wires simply add a line over the switch track to keep the pantograph in contact with power, where as a pole needs a special sort of connecter where the wires spilt up.
Cool were you from. Maybe you can send me some photos of them. I'm in the process now of fabricating draw bars with real working tomlinson traction couplers found on lots of prototype streetcars.
Are the electric wires work?
sdtrolleygregory 8 months ago
Thank you for the info Jan621117. In 1962 you could still see & ride alot of great trains!
Petemonster62 10 months ago
@Petemonster62 Should you be so lucky to visit the Netherlands sometime, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague have an innercity streetcar network with new but also old trams. Do you want to ride with old trams visit the national heritage museum near Arnhem. My dad´s tramdriver for funtrips around the park being a retired volunteer. Pity, Arnhem got rid of the trolleybuses as well as the tramways... Google Earth 52 00 44 15 N, 5 54 40 90 E
Jan621117 10 months ago
Looking at MBTA LRV & Type 7 Trolleys in Boston by PKingman I've noticed a bulge on the rooftop. Could that be an airconditioning set-up?
Jan621117 10 months ago
IHC had some unique models of motive power no one else offered. It is too bad that they went out of business Jan621117.
Petemonster62 10 months ago
@Petemonster62 That´s right. Mehano/AHM/IHC LRV´s are still to be found on ebay though! some 60 dollar they often do. SF Munis more, MBTA's harder to find. An MC Fachgeschaefte advertised one only seen in Europe so far. I was lucky to find one. Mehano has made a lot of thalys, ICE, TGV, Pacific, Rio Bravo (wild west) toy sets with lay-outs, buildings, bridges etc. completed from 60 up to 130 euro (75-150 $) so very affordable and nice to start with! Only PIKO is left now for affordable stuff.
Jan621117 10 months ago
@Petemonster62 Check out WorldWideWeb, then .bahnwahn.de/mehanotram/index.html
BTW 62 's a great year right? Apart from the Cuba crisis that is...
Jan621117 10 months ago
Did International Hobby Corporation offer an HO model of these LRV trolleys at one time? I recall seeing an ad of theirs in either Model Railroader or Model Railroad Craftsman showing an LRV trolley in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Petemonster62 1 year ago
@Petemonster62 5302-02 by AHM, M9385 by IHC or T034/27393 by Mehano; Mehanotechnica Izola Yugoslavia, where all 3 models were manifactured. This one Boston MBTA, a white with yellow/orange band San Fransisco Muni SFMR and a special edition MC (modellbahn center) Fachgeschaefte advertising on the sides
Jan621117 10 months ago
I have one of those, but it's a SF Muni.
LyokoTravels 3 years ago
I have one of those, but it's a SF Muni.
Speaking of that, (since you built this) if you get the accordion piece in the middle on these misaligned, how do you get it back in?
redoctober90 3 years ago
Very neat stuff looks just like the real thing. I noticed one of the LRVs have poles as well. Can you actually use the poles?
lpcmidst128 5 years ago
i dont think so..
anyways, cool trolley layout
milky27oreo 3 years ago
if you've designed your overhead wiring for pantographs, it will be rather difficult if not impossible for the poles to be used as the overhead wiring for pantographs and poles varies. take a switch for example, when it comes to pantographs, the overhead wires simply add a line over the switch track to keep the pantograph in contact with power, where as a pole needs a special sort of connecter where the wires spilt up.
camwizardoz 3 years ago
Just Google "model railroading" and you'll be opened to a whole new world. I make these too.
Skinq 5 years ago
Cool were you from. Maybe you can send me some photos of them. I'm in the process now of fabricating draw bars with real working tomlinson traction couplers found on lots of prototype streetcars.
r1nv02 5 years ago