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NYO,

I think that green and white "Blimp" was in the LAMTA livery. I think that repainting took place in 1960, a year before the Long Beach Line was shut down. LAMTA took over operation ...

Just saw a post on FB by the Lomita Railroad Museum that they may be acquiring the reproduction PE 500 car that had run as the San Pedro trolley for a few years. If that happens, I guess the San Pedr ...

Here is a rare photo of the experiment diesel-electric GM-built ASV "D900" in 1950 (a customized 4509) at the Bell St. car house in Montclair; sadly, this unique coach never carried revenue ...

NYO,

Thanks anyway. I don't suppose it was much to look at!

Sounds like a pain for all involved. Any photos/info?

Detroit's "DSR", through the 1940s, rostered a sizeable number of "FORDS"...............

https://www.detroittransithistory.info/PhotoGalley/Photos1940sA.html

Thanks for t ...

Thanks for the info, NYO. I now more about the Ford buses than I did. Smile

I never had any experience with the Ford buses. They didn't look like they were in the same league with the real GM Old Looks. I wonder if the Fords had the straight six or the flat head V-8? They ...

Cyberider:

Oddly enough, none of the old "indy" companies I knew in Hudson County ever rostered any of these "new Old Looks"; they went straight from Old Looks to Fishbowls, in ...

Sounds like you have quite a collection, NYO. The closest I got to that was considering an HO scale bus or two but never quite did it.

Cyberider:

If you think the HO model PCCs sit too high on their trucks, just build a layout where the cars are running on a fictitious line with high-level platforms (platforms made of balsa wo ...

Also...............

Recall the "baby" Old Looks (the TGH/TDH-3501/3592) that went into production when full-scale Old Look production ended in 1959.

Ironically, GM reverted back to the ...

I always wanted some model PCC's but never got any. The less expensive ones looked like they sat too high on their trucks which ruined the whole effect. In any event, don't think I'll be doing any m ...

NYO,

I never liked gasoline engine fumes. Only Diesel for me!

Cyberider:

Back in the early 1970s, I used to enjoy visiting a local hobby shop and longingly staring at the AWESOME brass HO models of "Red Cars" by E. Suydam (of course, their price ...