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:thumb: Just take a look at Chris Interurbans work! Here's one of my little switchers built from a kit. Under the wire....the ONLY way to go!
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interurban said:
From you, Chris, I am honored.
When I get the pair of Cannonball Car Shops B-W Class D loco kits, I want to do them in a maroon. I hope to get those switchers some time this year...they're going into production soon and I'm lloking forward to getting them. 
No such thing: PCC's are still carrying passengers in San Francisco, and probably a few other cities as well!
Another great traction link: The East Penn Traction Club!
http://www.eastpenn.org/
Ahhh, that little GE electric...whenever I see that I turn Pullman green with envy!!
robt46 said:
That's Route 11 during the private ownership days in Philadelphia prior to 1968. The location is the 40th Street portal where subway surface lines come to the surface. Route 11 still operates today.
Present day photos: http://world.nycsubway.org/us/phila/rt11darby.html
http://world.nycsubway.org/
All you want to know about Philadelphia trolleys including track maps and route maps:
http://www.phillytrolley.org/
interurban said:We have a couple of TTC PCC`s at Rock wood museam, I drove them in the mid 80`s and the CLRV also the ALRV. I work for the TTC btwand operated the new ones up to 2001.
Here are pic of Streetcars in T O. I am wearing the white hat. Have fun.
Hey Chris,
nice photo of King and Church. Here's a couple from a different angle!!Notice the two poles close together? The TTC was in the process of replacing span poles and some of the old poles stand close to the new poles while the TTC waits for Toronto Hydro to move its lines from the old poles.
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NICE PICTURES
How did you get up there Bill?
They are very informative shots of trackage and overhead.
Man I loved my time down there , although stressful to a point, like the OWMYGOD bar that we GRIP when cars take our stopping space when in a full emergancy stop. YIKESSS.
I will say again.
If you have never taken the first streetcar out of the barns in the morning (or rode one)after a good snow fall you have`nt had the ultimate thrill.
No tracks to see, the car just takes you along , wow!
Then you have to find your switch, I wonder if many no the easy way to locate a switch.
I wonder how many know how to locate a switch under fresh snow?
Any one?
How did you get up there Bill?
They are very informative shots of trackage and overhead.
Man I loved my time down there , although stressful to a point, like the OWMYGOD bar that we GRIP when cars take our stopping space when in a full emergancy stop. YIKESSS.
I will say again.
If you have never taken the first streetcar out of the barns in the morning (or rode one)after a good snow fall you have`nt had the ultimate thrill.
No tracks to see, the car just takes you along , wow!
Then you have to find your switch, I wonder if many no the easy way to locate a switch.
I wonder how many know how to locate a switch under fresh snow?
Any one?
interurban said:
Thanks Chris.
That was taken from the window of my den in a condo I owned from 2000 to 2004. It was a fun place to live and looking back it seems hard to believe I was there for four years. Time flies!!
I love traction, but even on the 11th floor there was alot of noise. You're right close by the intersection and hear the cars going through or going around the corner. Whenever Queen cars were diverting down Church or turning up Church I would know. The sound was different when an ALRV came along to the corner than when a CLRV came along.
It was amazing to have 3 streetcar lines outside your window (503 M-F rush, 504, and 508 M-F rush). The last car eastbound on King is just before 3:00 AM. If I was awake I'd freqently hear it.
interurban said:
Cool
I remember seeing King Street from the condo when the snow was largely undisturbed.Well the location of the overhead frog should guide you. Using a guide sometimes used in trolley modelling, the overhead frog should be 1/3 of the way past the track switch.
bill937ca said:Cool
Well the location of the overhead frog should guide you. Using a guide sometimes used in trolley modelling, the overhead frog should be 1/3 of the way past the track switch.
Yes all you have to do is look up , with sweeping brush in one hand and switch iron in the other, once you are under the frog the switch is slightly ahead.:thumb:
If the switch is a manual throw=
After the streetcar has turned, do not forget to walk back and reset for main line.
:thumb:That inspired me to pull out Transit Gloria Mundi's Steel and Ice video.
http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/trolley_videos/snow/snow_home.html
http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/trolley_videos/trolley_video_home.html
Enjoyed it very much!!
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http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/trolley_videos/snow/snow_home.html
http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/trolley_videos/trolley_video_home.html
Enjoyed it very much!!
:thumb:
Bill: the first photo of the car turning south on Church shows that TTC finally removed the unuasable north bound track on Church. That loop has been one way as far back as I can remember (mid 60s) because of one way traffic on Wellington. Funny thing, in the late 60s or 70s (?) they re-did the track and enclosed the ROW in concrete instrad of cobbles. They did both tracks even though the one was never used (unless someone reversed a work car down it). Before that, the curve at Church and Wellington was sub-clearance and had a sign "Cars must not pass on this curve".
Do they still have the overhead in where the northbound track was?
Do they still have the overhead in where the northbound track was?