Spule 4
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 | | 07/24/2008 6:29 PM |
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Does the Northeast Narrow Gauge 1:20 four wheel trolley/streetcar have strait- vertical or tumbledown sides?
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| | 07/28/2008 9:14 AM |
| | It has a tumbledown in the shape of a gently coved piece of wood used for the lower cabin wall. I have 2 of these NIB, havent built them but I have gone over the instructions and parts list. | |
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| | 07/28/2008 3:30 PM |
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| | 08/22/2008 9:42 PM |
| I managed to pick up for under $20 one of the old old OLD versions of this kit (1:24 scale on 32mm/O track) while in NY last week. Sure enough, the instruction sheet dates to the 1980s.
It is a wonderful box of wood, nails, wire, castings and at one time held together by now dry-rotted rubber bands! Should be a neat kit to build, I will built mine in O gauge as a trailer for my Mamod.
Vic, is yours a 1:20 kit or 1:24? I wonder if they actually upsized it? I always had the idea of using discared horse cars/trams for passenger equipment as a few lines have in the past.
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| | 08/22/2008 9:43 PM |
| Another neat bit, the "artwork" on the box consists of stamps and a color photograph. Had a price list for some other kits in there too.
Wish I still had their 1986 catalog. I am sure it is in a box somewhere in Ohio in dad's basement. | |
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| | 08/22/2008 11:43 PM |
| Posted By Spule 4 on 08/22/2008 9:42 PM
I wonder if they actually upsized it? I always had the idea of using discared horse cars/trams for passenger equipment as a few lines have in the past.
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Spule 4
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| | 08/23/2008 5:54 AM |
| | Exactly. Once horse cars were no longer vogue, they found alternate uses. Nice photo BTW Brian! | |
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| | 08/23/2008 10:07 AM |
| Mine are the same as yours, 1/24 on O track, I was just going to widen the underframe and use Bachmann small diameter wheels.
I never intended to power mine, they were going to be passenger cars. | |
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| | 08/23/2008 11:19 AM |
| Well, when do you want to start building them? 
Actually, I do have a spare set of Bachmann small wheels, leftover from my NENG boxcar kit. I did not use the big plated wheels that came with the kit. | |
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