Playing with 1:1 Scale

[serotta1972]

My baby girl has been wanting to ride a choo choo train so today we did from San Francisco to San Mateo - 30 minute ride.  We were able to ride both type of cars they have - the Bombardier and Nippon Sharyo and a big difference between the two in terms of seat arrangements and ride comfort.  

 

 

 

And of course when I got home, I had to bring out my Athearn Bombardiers.

 

[serotta1972]

Hey Mark, this look familiar?  

 

[serotta1972]

A day at the Western Railway Museum.  My apologies for not having any info on the trains pictured.  

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/gallery/album/254-western-railway-museum/

 

Now with descriptions courtesy of Bill937ca.  

Edited May 29, 2017 by serotta1972

[Kiha66]

Looks like someone's been out to Rio Vista!  Great little museum out there, and only about 20 min from my school.  I should give them a visit again.

[Kiha66]

A day at the Western Railway Museum.  My apologies for not having any info on the trains pictured.  

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/gallery/album/254-western-railway-museum/

Great photos Junior, looks like mini junior was having a great time!

[bill937ca]

A day at the Western Railway Museum.  My apologies for not having any info on the trains pictured.  

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/gallery/album/254-western-railway-museum/

 

Image 4728 San Francisco Municipal Railway "iron monster" 178 built 1923 by Bethehelm Ship Building

Image 4734 Melbourne and Metropolitan Tram Board type W-2 street car, build date unknown (could be 1920s-1940)

Image 4736 Inside 648

Image 4743 Back platform of Muni 178

Image 4760 Front platform showing the operator on Muni 178

Image 4770 Muni 178

Image 4772 Melbourne 648

Image 4785 Oakland, Antioch & Eastern 1020 interurban control trailer, built 1913

Image 4788 Muni 178

Image 4791 San Francisco Municipal Railway "Magic Carpet Car" 1003, non-PCC car built 1939 by St . Louis Car Company

Image 4792 Cedar Rapids and Iowa City 111, built in 1930 by the Cincinnati Car Company for the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad

Image 4793 San Francisco Municipal Railway Boeing-Vetol, built in 1974

Image 4797 Key System (Trans-Bay) Bridge unit 182, built by Bethlehem Shipyard, Willington, De in 1937

Image 4799 Peninsular Railway 52 built in 1903 by the American Car Company for the Los Gatos Interurban Railway Company as their number 4.

Image 4811 Interurban car interior

Image 4812 Interurban car interior

Image 4816 Interurban car interior

Image 4819 Looking out the end of an interurban car

Image 4820 Interurban car interior

image 4832 Kennecott Copper Corporation 407, built by General Electric 1947

Image 4833 Kennecott Copper Corporation 407, built by General Electric 1947

Image 4840 Interurban car interior 

 

The museum's web site  http://www.wrm.org/visit/car-roster

[serotta1972]

This is awesome, thanks Bill937A!  Now if you don't mind, I will copy and paste the info onto the gallery. :)

[bill937ca]

This is awesome, thanks Bill937A!  Now if you don't mind, I will copy and paste the info onto the gallery. :)

 

That sounds great!   :)

[serotta1972]

Looks like someone's been out to Rio Vista!  Great little museum out there, and only about 20 min from my school.  I should give them a visit again.

 

Hey Sam, when you return to the Bay Area we can volunteer and become tram drivers. :)

[Kiha66]

Hey Sam, when you return to the Bay Area we can volunteer and become tram drivers. :)

 

Sounds like a plan!  Can't let Mark let have all the fun with 1:1.   :)

[marknewton]

Hey Mark, this look familiar?

It sure does, I've got one just like it! :)

 

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4941332456_d2ebfc1a85_b.jpg

 

249 is painted in a fictional colour scheme. When the national capital at Canberra was being designed, the intention was to include a tramway system with lines running in the median strips of the arterial roads. The Commonwealth government planned to use proven existing designs for the trams rather than design their own from scratch, and the W cars were apparently the preferred design. The tramway was never built as buses were introduced instead, so the colour scheme on 249 is based on the early bus livery.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

Edited June 25, 2017 by marknewton

[marknewton]

Image 4734 Melbourne and Metropolitan Tram Board type W-2 street car, build date unknown (could be 1920s-1940)

648 was built at the M&MTB's Preston Workshops in 1930.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[tossedman]

On 6/24/2017 at 7:01 PM, marknewton said:

It sure does, I've got one just like it! :)

 

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4941332456_d2ebfc1a85_b.jpg

 

249 is painted in a fictional colour scheme. When the national capital at Canberra was being designed, the intention was to include a tramway system with lines running in the median strips of the arterial roads. The Commonwealth government planned to use proven existing designs for the trams rather than design their own from scratch, and the W cars were apparently the preferred design. The tramway was never built as buses were introduced instead, so the colour scheme on 249 is based on the early bus livery.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

These Melbourne trams get around. We've got one in Edmonton, Canada.

 

 

Cheers eh,

 

Todd

Edited February 23, 2020 by tossedman
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[serotta1972]

When it's on your backyard, we tend to take them for granted.  Today, I paid more attention and admired them as they ran by.  Next time when time allows, I will be riding them.

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/gallery/album/259-san-francisco-trolleys-f-and-e-line/

[Kiha66]

Nice photos Junior!  I really like how you got the ferry building in the background too.  I love riding the classic waterfront trolleys, sometimes I'll take the ferry over to SF and just ride the line from one end to another with a good book.  It's especially comfy on a rainy day, when the cars are almost empty and you can hear the water on the roof. 

[serotta1972]

Hey, we gotta do that when you return to the bay area.  Yeah, would be good to go on a time when it's not so crowded.  

[cteno4]

Ahh I miss riding the ferry and the classics! D.C. Is not the Bay Area...

 

Jeff

[serotta1972]

I didn't realize I had taken the train the same day last year, 2 years in a row now going on a joy ride on the Caltrain.  This time added on some streetcar rides along the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf and got to ride on a couple of PCC's.

 

 

 

[JR 500系]

9 hours ago, serotta1972 said:

I didn't realize I had taken the train the same day last year, 2 years in a row now going on a joy ride on the Caltrain.  This time added on some streetcar rides along the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf and got to ride on a couple of PCC's.

 

 

 

 

Hey I recognised this train!  :)

[serotta1972]

Went and rode the Niles Canyon Railroad, and operating Railroad Museum and it just so happens the Model Railroad Museum was also having an open house.  As Paul and I were admiring the GP9 Southern Pacific that was the engine for the train, I told him that I had a similar N scale model.  It turns out it's the same model and with the same road number.  How cool is that. 

 

The Prototype GP9 above and Atlas N Scale Model Below.

Edited June 11, 2018 by serotta1972

[serotta1972]

BTW, the other gentleman pictured with the GP9 is Paul (Railtunes).

[beakaboy]

On 5/10/2018 at 11:12 AM, serotta1972 said:

I didn't realize I had taken the train the same day last year, 2 years in a row now going on a joy ride on the Caltrain.  This time added on some streetcar rides along the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf and got to ride on a couple of PCC's.

 

 

Love that Caltrain and Amtrak

 

[serotta1972]

I was sorting through some boxes and it turns out I also have the other loco that was pulling the train we rode.

 

[Welshbloke]

Weirdly I've been following Niles Canyon for a while now as they host the sole surviving Krauss Maffei diesel hydraulic, SP 9010. Very close to being able to run solo again after almost fifty years, the restoration took a great leap forward with the discovery and acquisition of a pair of spare trucks which still had their final drive gearboxes (missing from the loco as rescued).

[serotta1972]

Yeah, they have a nice collection of diesel locomotives and of historical significance too.  This was my first time going there and they run trains every other Sunday and some other days during the summer.  I'm going to see if they actually have a schedule of what diesel engines they will be running on a particular weekend so I can go ride particular one.  I would love to see the SP9010 and also one of the last 4 Western Pacific F7's.  At the end of train ride in Sunol, they actually let you take a tour of the cabs.