I hope those of you at the ECLSTS will stop at the contest table to see my G Scale Toonerville Trolley. It’s built out of plastic on a Roundhouse motor block. I had no plans, so it’s eyeballed from photos of an O Scale and the old windup version from ebay.
You know how hard it is to bend plastic? I carefully used a heat gun. I will post pix when I have time to take more.
There, now I’ve committed myself. We’re leaving Thursday for the show, so I have 3 days to finish the last bit of painting. I’m dreading the last bit of curving of the sides. Roof and base done, have to assemble the walls. I will probably look for a figure at the show to represent “The Skipper”, as none of the figgers I have look right.
Oh, yeah, there was a set of the original plans that Kemtron used on ebay. They were down to $799 for an opening bid. Not me.
Three nights to deadline. Job occupies day.
I think I can. I think I can…
Lou- Can’t wait to see it.
-Kevin.
Me too, Lou!
Well it looked great in person, and as stated on the York forum, I’, looking forward to the build process pics.
OK, now that I have a Freight Shed, I’m going to see if I can pix from there to this post.
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All resized & cropped. Lou
Lou,
You’ll have to rename the jpegs on your computer, removing the spaces before and after “Trolley”.
Then re-upload them to your freight shed and edit your post with the new pictures.
Ralph
Thanks. I’ll have to do that tomorrow. Chief of Staff has other plans for now.
Plus I need to take more pichurs.
OK, now they are too big. What is the best pixel size? XxX?
There are the ECLSTS pix on the “General Discussion” - What have you custom built?
Lou
Thanks for the build pics Lou. I like that clamp system you used on the roof piece. Real nice build.
Thanks, Dave. It was tricky using a heat gun to “bend” the plastic. I am going to make thos build pix smaller so they are easier to see. It annoys me to have pix too big that you have to keep going left-right-up-down.
700x500 pixels will be just fine, Lou. You could go 50-100 pixels up or down from there. In my opinion small is good enough. We can always order enlargements! Don’t forget to crop your image. We only want to see the trolley, not the whole neighbourhood! 
Nice to see some of the build on it Lou!
OK, John, why did SOME of these resize OK, and some look the same as before? I edited 9 pix and saved them as I cropped and resized. Then I deleted them from my Freight Shed and re-uploaded all 9. ???
OK, I am not uploading the pix I am seeing, so I will wait some time and try to upload again.
FIXED
See above
Oh that is gonna’ be one sweet toy, Lou! Glad the pix worked out for you - and for us!
I like that avatar of yours - is that you as a youngster with an old trolleyman’s ticket machine?
Hey All;
There was another cartoon railway line called the Fiddleton & Copperopolis. It has been so long since I saw any of their illustrations that I no longer remember whether it was a short line or a traction line. Does anybody here recall what kind of equipment they supposedly ran?
My reason for asking is that the F&C would also be good grist for whimsical models. Not for me - Middle Earth and my own warped mind provide enough inspiration to keep me busy. But maybe for another whimsical modeler.
Thanks,
David Meashey
P. S. Oh, nevermind! I answered my own question via Bing. It was a narrow gauge shortline, billed as an “uncommon carrier.” There is a book, available from Amazon and others, that contains the cartoons. There is even a discussion for planning a garden railway based on the line at a 30mm enthusiasts’ site. I still think it would provide some good grist for whimsical modeling.
Have you found the figure you needed?
That was the Fiddletown and Copperopolis RR, Dave… I used to see it occasionally in RMC in the old days, but I beleive those may have been reprinted from some other publication… Pretty sure the F&CRR was a short line, but these days my memory of further details is about as faint as yours …
Another cartoon (model) railroad from back in the day was the Mudhole and Southern. D’you remember that? It had a great old-timey/Wild West-looking herald or type-style for the name…
John;
The Mudhole and Southern is new to me. There was/is a web-based cartoon railroad by one of your own countrymen, but right now I can’t remember the name of the cartoonist OR his railroad. (Growing old really ain’t for the faint-hearted.)
I also have the Roland Emmett book “The Early Morning Milk Train,” which has a nice collection of his cartoons of the Far Twittering & Oyster Creek Railway. Those are perfect grist for whimsical models, and there seem to be several enthusiasts on the other side of the pond who build them.
Best,
David Meashey
No, John, I have not found quite the right figure. “The Skipper” had a RR cap, beard, and corncob pipe. You can see by wensearch “Toonerville Trolley”.
That gives me something to look for, and I’m always happy to carry a list of “Stuff to Look For”!
BTW, the windows, doors, and lettering were done on my Cricut machine.
Further BTW, my Avatar is a picture of me, around 1951 or 52, about six years old standing by my new American Flyer transformer. Musta been Christmas because I was dressed up, AND I was only allowed my trains in the cold weather in New Jersey. If it was nice, we were supposed to be outside until the streetlights came on.
Lou