Trams: Is There Much Tramway Interest On Here??

[Miamigo259]

Would railbuses, interurbans and railmotors fit into the tram arena?
I thought about converting a LGB street car into a diesel railmotor interurban (or maybe an electric version)

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One of the Denver & Intermountain cars is preserved (I assume it is still there...) at the Colorado museum in Golden....seen here back in (a rather cold) April 1983....



Interurbans would certainly fall into the "Tramway" category, as woud various "Light Rail" operations which would even cover some of the Swiss local lines. You could even include things like this.......


Though I can't say I've ever seen a model of a Tyne & Wear metrocar in any scale!

I have started work on a 2-car Interurban unit following on from the Freight Motor conversion of last year, but work on that, and any other G projects has ground to a halt over the past couple of months for various reasons. Hopefully work will resume again at some stage in the near future.

 

[Gizzy]

Though I can't say I've ever seen a model of a Tyne & Wear metrocar in any scale!

I'm sure I saw a an 00 layout in a Railway Modeller a couple of years back.

Not sure if the Metro cars were kit or scratch built....

 

[Rhinochugger]

I'm sure I saw a an 00 layout in a Railway Modeller a couple of years back.

Not sure if the Metro cars were kit or scratch built....

Think they were scratch built, and the overhead wire had some sort of special arrangement at some point.

 

[dunnyrail]

Would railbuses, interurbans and railmotors fit into the tram arena?
I thought about converting a LGB street car into a diesel railmotor interurban (or maybe an electric version)

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And why not, the Platt Valley in Denver had a small Diesel Genny Van on the back when I went for a ride there back in 1994. But my LLB will have a Van with a Diesel Sound Unit in to show the Rack Line off the Wires in old East Germany after the Ruskies ran off with all the Wire on part of my mythical Railway. The Rack Lecy will still have its Electrical Sound as well. Remember Rule 1.
JonD

 

[David1226]

Gratuitous tram pic, actually duplicated from my pic of the day in the Coffee Lounge. A tram trundles through the streets of Soller on its return journey from Puerto Soller, Mallorca, 22.6.2010



David

 

[David1226]

Same theme as above. Duplication of my pic of the day, 25.4.2016, in the Coffee Lounge. Not a photograph of a tram, but the view out of the window as the tram from Soller approaches Puerto Soller, along the bay. Taken 22.6.2010. Not many more attractive or sunnier destinations for a tram ride.



David

 

[Miamigo259]

You don't have to run all your trams on your line in the same livery either..............



The San Francisco tram lines E & F run PCC cars in liveries from other operators in the US/Canada/Mexico, and Birmingham (Alabama) & Cincinnati liveried car are seen passing on the Embarcadero when I was there last week.

Some other liveries are El Paso/Cudad Juarez


Los Angeles


and Cleveland


They also operate some Peter Witt cars from Milan (the one in Italy...) and a couple of Boat cars from sunny Blackpool, though the latter only come out on charters/special events or during the high summer period.

 

[dunnyrail]

San Fran, as close to Tram Heaven as it gets, plus Trolleys too.
JonD

 

[G-force1]

These were taken at Doncaster yesterday (20/5/16). I believe it says Stockport trams above.






The two images are the same, one with flash, the other without. Usual situation in these places, neither really does the job. The flash loses because of lack of range, without loses because of the longer exposure time, and nowhere to steady the camera. I used to hand-hold an 1/8th of a second easily, but these days I struggle at anything under 1/30th.

 

[dunnyrail]

I did a bit of Tram bashing on my recent Harz Trip thought some of my Pics would be appreciated.
NORDHAUSEN.
First up we managed to Bunk the Shed, sort of with permission but were then told it was a Private Place. Oh well never mind we saw all we needed to. General view of the Tram Shed below, the Yellow bit is I believe pretty original from the old days of the East. Since the Modernization and extension to the Tranz Harz the new bit to the right has been added. This serves as a nice home for the Preserved Trams as well. Note that as there are many Single Ended Cars on the System, all the Termini have Loops, plus they have managed to fit one into the Depot.

Now some pics of the Old Iron.





The Terminus by the Hospital, the Trams from the HSB Terminate here.



The River Bridge just a 5 minute walk from the Hbf makes some nice pics.

Finally on my last day I was happy to travel from Wernigerode to Nordhausen on the 0730 Train which Terminates at the Tram Stop. Duo Diesel Electric Tram to the Left, these were doing Town Circuits on this day (a Sunday) which is why the Railcar comes to the Tram Stop.

My trip had planned to visit Halberstadt and Frankfurt Trams as well, but these never got visited. However there was a consolation prize. More pics later.
JonD

 

[David1226]

Tram pic duplicated from today's pic in the Coffee Lounge. Tram and trailers thread their way though the streets of Soller, Mallorca, 22.6.2010



David

 

[Miamigo259]

For something different, a couple of water sprinkler cars used on the Riga tram system in Latvia........


Was rather surprised to see them in operation on Tuesday morning, though having managed to cover the 6 tram lines over the past 4 days, they certainly need them there, given the state of the road surfaces that they actually run on!

An potential interesting modelling conversion job..........

 

[whateverls15]

I just read the whole topic and find this quite classic
I love old trains

 

[Miamigo259]

One from the East Anglian Transport Museum at Carlton Colville from earlier today...........



LCC 106 was visiting from the Crich tram museum for their two day "London Event" this weekend.

The former Ipswich Corporation Ransomes Orwell battery tower wagon (1922) can be seen on the left of the picture.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Err pardon my ignorance but why the water spraying? Doesn't look enough to cleanse

 

[PhilP]

Err pardon my ignorance but why the water spraying? Doesn't look enough to cleanse

Think it 'binds' the dust, so it doesn't get into the bearings / motors so much??

 

[Gavin Sowry]

Zurich, 12 months ago.

 

[Gavin Sowry]

Milan trams. Milano and San Francisco.

 

[Gavin Sowry]

Roma

 

[Gavin Sowry]