Interurban Models

I agreed immediately, and this morning I made a new carbody. Fortunately this is a modular design, built much like a reduced MTL heavyweight, so many parts could be swapped. The ill-fated first attempt will be primed and spray painted, old style.

But he was very annoyed that I messed his Lehigh Valley Black Diamond design. I made the letterboard black instead of red. He asked me to change it, otherwise his eternal peace may be compromised.

I agreed immediately, and this morning I made a new carbody. Fortunately this is a modular design, built much like a reduced MTL heavyweight, so many parts could be swapped. The ill-fated first attempt will be primed and spray painted, old style.

I agreed immediately, and this morning I made a new carbody. Fortunately this is a modular design, built much like a reduced MTL heavyweight, so many parts could be swapped. The ill-fated first attempt will be primed and spray pained, old style.

This night, the ghost of Otto Kuhler showed up in my dreams, and he talked to me (he spoke German, he is German born like me). He was very pleased that I was working with his railroad designs, instead of those of this arrogant and impertinent Frenchman Raymond Loewy.

Diamonds can drive you crazy. I made one, color printed, it was like making diamonds from coal, with 16 manual color swaps: A streamstyled Lehigh Valley 900 series car in the striking Otto Kuhler prewar livery. Now just don't ask how about motive power. Doing the car was already a crazy idea

The third version is just an orange/yellow free lance livery that I had assigned to the very first test car.

All models are full color printed. But I confess that I painted the roofs. It happens, sometimes.

Before that, those trailers were classic Interurbans at Oregon Electric Raliway, they had train doors, radial couplers but no diaphragm. And they wore Pullman green with light green trucks.

One, two, three ... it is rollout day for 3 variations of the same car, almost the same.

Pacific Great Eastern had a specialty in recycling Interurban trailers, were they looked slightly undersized, but got diaphragm and would finally fit well into the red main line compositions.

... but there is a picture from IC&E #94, an then the car is credited as CCCo built. IC&E was controlled by Ohio Electric from 1907 to 1921

As far as I can identify, the car in the picture above is #93 of the Indiana Columbus & Eastern, identical to #92. Shows only some of typical CCCo constructing patterns, so maybe from another builder.

N-scale color printing is primarily a matter of high dimensional precision. Things have to fit together. Did you guess the prototype? The model is exact, but the paint scheme is not, that is just a test bed to train my color printing skills

«CINCINNATI CURVED SIDE» -color printed Interurban for Tomytec drive #160-1243 COLOR PRINTED N scale Kit for motorization with a TOMYTEC TM TR04 drive The Curved Side Cars were Interurban cars built by the Cincinnati Car Company.  The pre-mounted "vitrine model" contains: The fu...

I make them, for me, and for patrons: interurban-models.myshopify.com/collections/...

On the workbench: a lot of Cincinnati-built Curved Side Cars in N scale, Speedrail and Shaker Heights

«DELAWARE & HUDSON passenger set» - 3 car pack #160-5231 Ready-to-run Heavyweight passenger cars, full color printed. Delaware & Hudson blue/yellow/grey paint scheme. The cars are mounted on MTL 36" plastic wheels.  Runner pack consisting of 3 cars: ex-...

Available here: interurban-models.myshopify.com/collections/...

- Ex-Reading combine, 4w trucks
- D&H Heavyweight, porthole window doors, clerestory, 6w trucks
- Ex-EL, née Erie, Thru-Line-Coach, modernized, picture windows, 6w trucks
(The models are painted and READY TO RUN, but without inscriptions - no decals)
interurban-models.myshopify.com/.../prod.../...

American passenger cars in N scale are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, if it's not for the great "name trains". That's why we starting to make small runner packs.
We follow our own desires and start with a DELAWARE & HUDSON set of three, full color printed

The description still refers to the car as « unpainted », but I produce this car now color printed, matching the Union Traction paint scheme of medium dark red and a green roof

On the workbench: Union Traction of Indiana heavy steel Interurban, HO scale.
The model (sold without drives) makes a test run on borrowed NWSL-Stanton motor trucks, to check that all fits and tight curves are well negotiated.

Placing the upper cornerstones on the HO scale Indianapolis Traction Terminal. Still some work to do: modeling the upper Cornice, and making and placing 336 more windows

The tiny dummy wheels of the exchange floors don't roll, but the trucks rotate, cars can stand on curved track. Available soon on interurban-models.myshopify.com

How it is easy to swap a Tomytec TR04 drive with our dummy floors.
Any new "vitrine" model of our N scale Cincinnati curved side cars can be put in service with a motor drive, and go back into the shelf liberating the drive for another model.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife.

The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

Some more official "acceptance runs" of the N scale Northern Texas Traction "Crimson Limited". The train set takes 103 mm (4in) curves with ease

How it works: 15% US Import duty is paid by US residents when ordering. This amount is transferred by us to the US tax authorities at time of shipment, during customs declaration process. The amount is notified on the CN23 form attached to the parcel. No remaining charges when package is received

Yay! Shipping parcels works smoothly again between France and the United States.
Thanks to our thorough understanding of customs forms, Harmonized Commodity System numbers and country of origin details, the first parcels arrived without any problems, after a 3-month break

Erie RR N scale cars

Erie RR N scale cars

It is peak ERIE, pre-merger: Producing a batch of "Thru Line Coaches gives me the opportunity to run a number of Erie cars

The Crimson Limited rolls through the plaines of Texas! N scale "pre-production sample" of fine Northern Texas Traction cars make first laps. Full color printed, designed for Tomix drives. Available soon.