Interurbans are trains too!

Randy Stahl Sep 1, 2013

  1. bremner

    bremner Staff Member

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    Hoghead2 TrainBoard Member

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    Ya mean, they make motorcycles elsewhere?? o_O

    Serious question - do you regard CSL as an interurban, or is it just a one city tram system?
     
  3. Randy Stahl

    Randy Stahl TrainBoard Supporter

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    CSL was a city system. It did however have some suburban lines that looked the part.

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    I don't have any CSL stuff yet, but the cars would look at home here.
     
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    Just read through all 23 pages of this thread. Wow, what beautiful work so many of you have done!
    Has anyone here tried the Kato Pocket Line Steeplecab Tram? It looks really neat!
     
  7. bremner

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    They do look neat, but with only 2 axles and an odd shape...
     
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    GF bought a Bachmann Peter Witt in CSL livery a while ago for me. Looks and runs great, but sadly no follow up by BMann. PCC remake would've been cool.
     
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  9. Randy Stahl

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    I'm glad you enjoyed the thread! 23 pages is a good start, let's see some more electric cars!
    I don't have the Kato tram, it's difficult to find a North American railway that had anything similar. That said, it does look like fun, I think @John Moore has experience with them. he has a very fun looking layout.

    Now that I think about it, I believe I may have the one of more of the same car. I think photo's are in order.

    Randy
     
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    Please!!! :)
     
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    Now that I think about it, I believe I may have the one of more of the same car. I think photo's are in order.

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    Certainly! Cute little monsters , aren't they? GF saw it in a hobby shop, loved it , and bought it me for Christmas .
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  13. Randy Stahl

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    I'll try to get some pics of mine this weekend. I have a neighbor girl that suntans in a thong bikini, I might try spilling a beer on her.
     
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    Anybody converted a Kato My Tram to DCC?
     
  15. John Moore

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    First of all there is next to no space. I have had one semi apart to fix an minor issue and it was a total bear to reassemble and the Japanese rail groups are probably going to be the best source for info.
     
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  16. bremner

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    Um....no thanks
     
  17. Charlie Vlk

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    Tomix showed running samples of a PCC at the Louisville NMRA National Train Show a number of years ago. It was properly scaled and a different prototype than the long in the tooth Bachmann version.
    How about Tomytec releases of famous city and interurban cars! Or buses….
    It was likely a victim of the stillborn Walters’s-Tomix relationship. Too bad, Tomix could make some neat stuff for North America but never found or maybe wanted to expand to other markets. Same is even more true for Micro-Ace who has done a ton of steam patterned on the solid uncomplicated Kato revised Con-Cor Hudson mechanism which has never been equaled by later, complex, problem-prone over engineered attempts.
    Charlie Vlk
     
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    I would think a PCC, both the pre (1936) and post (1945) war versions would be good sellers. These were a successor to the Peter Witt cars (1915) modelled by Bachmann and incorporated advanced features.
     
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    Have any of you replaced the Bachmann drives with Kato or Tomix drives in the Brill or PCC shells to make reliable units?
     

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