I am planning a conversion of the LGB New Orleans street car into a 12 window version. The plan is of an ex-New York car shipped to Austria in 1949.
Alyn
Brill 12 Window Trolley / LGB Conversion
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I am planning a conversion of the LGB New Orleans street car into a 12 window version. The plan is of an ex-New York car shipped to Austria in 1949.
Alyn
Some pictures of the cars in New york. The LGB version is one window too long! Also various towns and cities in the US and elsewhere had 10 window versions so if you want an accurate model then its a job for Mr. Dremel !!!!! :timeout: Alyn
[align=center]Getting more interested in trolleys this week, I remember driving a tram as part of my job to test the controllers, it was not as scary as driving a trolley bus !!!!
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I'm hoping to get to new orleans. meet up with Streetcar Sue, get into top notch with her for a while, quite a ccharacter... any way I thought these were bogie Birney cars same same the ones in Bendigo but the Bendigo ones are single truck....
Very similar to our Adelaide H class (Pic attached) which I think are probably the worlds last remaining X rated tramcars I.e. they couple them in public and ALWAYS in numeric sequence so 373 for example would only ever couple with 374 or 372..... Absolutley amazing to drive they can get to over 100KPH....
I had to laugh at Spocks comment re Trolley busses yes I managed on the only occasion I ever drove one to pass a another trolley bus, poles everywhere witnesses later claimed the blue flash lit up the entire town ....
Very similar to our Adelaide H class (Pic attached) which I think are probably the worlds last remaining X rated tramcars I.e. they couple them in public and ALWAYS in numeric sequence so 373 for example would only ever couple with 374 or 372..... Absolutley amazing to drive they can get to over 100KPH....
I had to laugh at Spocks comment re Trolley busses yes I managed on the only occasion I ever drove one to pass a another trolley bus, poles everywhere witnesses later claimed the blue flash lit up the entire town ....
themole said:
...ex-New York car shipped to Austria in 1949.
You may be aware that New York 674, recovered from Vienna, is alive and well at Crich.
tramcar trev said:I had to laugh at Spocks comment re Trolley busses yes I managed on the only occasion I ever drove one to pass a another trolley bus, poles everywhere witnesses later claimed the blue flash lit up the entire town ....
Yes - there's a few golden rules about trolleybus driving (observed in the breach sometimes!)
Looking forward to your conversion Alyn - nice tram to start with (your a braver man than I am).
Mick
MRail said:
There's also one in the Vienna Tramway Museum as well. Got a photo of it somewhere.............
Found them, though it wasn't parked in the lightest part of the museum
I think they had Brill trams in Rome at one time. In fact they lasted a lot longer than you might have thought as I seem to recall one near the Circus Maximus (?) a while after much more modern vehicles has been introduced on the system. Having done Latin at school, it always amused me that Roman trams still had SPQR on their sides.
themole said:I am planning a conversion of the LGB New Orleans street car into a 12 window version. The plan is of an ex-New York car shipped to Austria in 1949.
Alyn, do you have a copy of the plan with better definition than the one posted? If so would you be prepared to share it with me?
I have plans to (eventually) build a shortened Perley-Thomas style tram with less than the thirteen windows used in New Orleans,
using bits from my "spare parts" box (which itself has taken seven years to build), and a decent plan would be a big help.