Vintage track vehicles

I saw this at the Fryeburg Fair today

 

That's freakin awesome!

 

This would be a splendid project in G scale. I certainly love the cow catcher.

 

When the Bridgton & Harrison Railway took over operations on the line in 1930, the financial situation was not desirable. After the stock market crash of 1929 and with better roads and road vehicles, not as many people wanted to travel on the slim gauge railroad. As a result, the B&H decided to construct a railbus out of a 1927 chevy sedan with custom trailer to haul freight in for the little remaining traffic. It was cost saving but the crews disliked working with it.

In 1935 after the closure of the Sandy River & Rangely Lakes Railroad, B&H employee Edgar Mead purchased this, SR&RL railbus #4, and brought it to Bridgton and leased it to the railroad for $1 a year. It was a better performer than the home built railbus and from 1935 to 1941, B&H railbus #3 as it was known, was the primary equipment for regular passenger service making 2 round trips a day between Hiram and Bridgton unless capacity was exceeded.

This railbus, like most of the equipment after 1941, was saved from being scrapped and today is owned and cared for by the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum of Portland, ME.

Photograph is from our collection.

 

Here's a current shot of that intersection, South Main Street and West First Street, in downtown Los Angeles. The old L.A. Times building is still standing. The famous L A City Hall is on S Main, just out of camera range, to the right, about 300' away. And yes, there were streetcars in L.A. I barely remember them though, and never rode on one.

The view is looking 'west' on 1st Street, although by the compass, it's more 'Northwest' at this point. The downtown L.A. area street grid is skewed about 45* as to the compass.

 

The downtown core was township platted, where the streets ran NW-SE, NE-SW. The PCC streetcars you see are the centrally located 'Yellow Line' cars of the Los Angeles Railway (the "LARy"), which served the central L.A. core. They ceased rail operations in 1963.

 

Portland Maine

 

New Orleans. What's that Piñata impaled onto that traffic light's pole about?

 

In looking close, it's on the light pole, nearly directly behind said traffic light. But, TBH, it sure looks racist, doesn't it?

 

Not so much, back then. Nobody was probably paying any attention

 

went to a train museum in pa.

 

Oh man! I have seen a couple of you toob videos on this place! I really want to go and check it out in person someday. How was it?

 

orthmannj, it was awsome! full size trains and full size buildings inside a building!! history of trains/types steam to deiseal. and alot of walking, they are hudge lol. worth the trip.