Looking for plastic model kits of subway trains

Model kit manufacterers and train producers rarely do both. Go to:

Walthers.com

You'll find tons of stuff. Wish I had room for a layout! The man with too many hobbies,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

if i had money and space i would build a trolley and interurban line. in 1945, you could travel cross country by interurban trolley. took about 14 days and was convoluted, but could be done.

Firestorm models in australia has a 1/35 resin WWII European street car...

Craig

Yeah, the prototypical up and down subway is always a joy. You've no doubt seen the slot car track with the railroad crossing? I'd love to incorporate several of those.

Wouldn't want to do it in the summer! Mass transit use to be grand but I know some folks had to do a lot of walking to get to the lines. There's a trolley museum in Medina Ohio, they've got a lot of Cleveland's old equipment.

According to some sources the demise of trollies and other interurban transport was brought about by the rubber companies. They wanted to sell tires to fleets of busses and trollies didn't use tires. I wanna see documentation on that...

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

rubber and oil. they actually bought cambridge mass 300 buses in the late 40's. right next to the old trolley/bus yard in harvard sq was a tavern that had pics of the last trollies. all of those are gone. had a $200 a month apt there in 71. same place is a million dollar condo.

$16.75 would do it. aside from seeing the rezillos and dead boys 6 more times each, if i had a temporal matricx maipulator, i would go back and make that trip. with 8,000 rolls of film.

nah, i figure just the research on the temporal manipulator at over a trillion. not easy to get to, much less study and event horizon. oh, you mean the trolley? ygwypf, which to me would be a lot more.

General Motors bought out many many of the trolley lines and ran them into the ground, hoping that consumers would favor *huge suprise here* automobiles.

While they removed any semblance of choice. It's all a plot isn't it? Girding my loins against the gas gangsters

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

I remember seeing a San Francisco trolley? cable car? from like Pyro maybe.

There were lots of lines running out to the small towns from Lancaster and some even ran cross-country. Every so often one can drive down a highway here and see remnants of their construction. That's the closest we can get to 'ancient ruins'.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I'd just love to go back and have a camera along all those times we travelled down US30 where my cousins lived. Kinzers, Pa. was right along the PRR electrified mainline and trains passed all day long. Now it's Amtrak owned and trains are hard to find. NS moves freight around through Reading and Harrisburg or down the NE Corridor. All the freight activity is on the western side of the county.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Doesn't Testors own the molds now? Seems like they reissue it every ten years or so...

Hawk

Bill Banaszak, MFE