Ya mean, they make motorcycles elsewhere?? Serious question - do you regard CSL as an interurban, or is it just a one city tram system?
CSL was a city system. It did however have some suburban lines that looked the part. I don't have any CSL stuff yet, but the cars would look at home here.
What a great thread, made me look up an interurban line from the early 20th Century that used to run to my little town of Carterville, Illinois. https://www.mihp.org/2012/12/coal-belt-line/#/
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!
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.
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
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[/QUOTE] Certainly! Cute little monsters , aren't they? GF saw it in a hobby shop, loved it , and bought it me for Christmas .
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.
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.
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
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.
Have any of you replaced the Bachmann drives with Kato or Tomix drives in the Brill or PCC shells to make reliable units?