Hey everyone, You know that I had a thought the other day about New Jersey Transit
Now we all know the Corgi Has the NJT Newark PCC car, right?
But you know what buses can go with that model?
1:50 scale buses as NJ Transit is
1980 Flxible 870
2 bus banks of the MC-9s rebuilt as
1982-84 MC-9A and 1987-88 MC-9B
1989 Flxible Metros
1994 Flxible Metro and Metro Suburban
1976 Flxible New Look Suburban
1968 GMC Fishbowl Suburban
1999-2000 Nova RTS 6
1999 MCI D4000
Oh what the heck thought I’d pop in my [2c] To use a Siberianmoism. I have seen the new Bush bus at my LHS the price was large enough umfortunatly to “gag a healthy maggot” $ 32.50 CDN.[:O] Nice but no thanks I’ll stick to my trolley’s. The fishbowl does look really good my only complaint other than the price is that in their infinate wisdom the mfr glued the floor to the body so a prying you must go if you wi***o add passengers[sigh] Don’t really want to do that to a $40 model. I’m sticking to a couple of Jordans 40’d ford transit’s ( closer to the layout time frame )One of them will likley have a close encounter with mt MTS snow sweeper [swg] Big Boy keep lovin your trolley’s Rob
TrolleyBoy,
For passengers in the new Fishbowls, it’s an easy matter to remove the body and insert passengers, just as we do on Rivorossi and Walthers Budd cars.
I’m sure that eventually these buses will wind up on Ebay and discount web stores. I still remember all of the $100 price tags of P2K locomotives just a few years ago. Now you can get the new for the $20 to $80 range.
Here’s an Idea of a model Transit Layout of Denver Colorado…
Denver RTD with Orion V (Bus Bank). along with 1:50 scale models of
1986-87 Neoplan AN440s, Gillig Phantoms,and Flxible Metros
to davekelly:;
Hey Guess what, I dream about another Philly Transit Layouts only it’s Layout of
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA 1989)
let me tell ya, It’s HUGE!!! I mean HHUUGGEE!!!
1:50 scale buses of
50 of 1980 GMC RTS II (T8W603) Series 8000-8264
40 of 1982-83 Neoplan AN440A AK ,BD series 8285-8584
40 of 1984-85 Neoplan AN440A BM,CD series 8601-8875
23 of 1984 Volvo B-10m Artic series 7001-7050
55 of 1986-87 Neoplan AN440A DK,EB series 3000-3251
55 of 1988-89 Neoplan AN440A EI-EZ series 3252-3491
8 AMG Trackless Trolleys series 810-909
4 Corgi SEPTA PCC Cars as 2100/2700 series
5 Imperial Hobbies’ O scale SEPTA Kawasaki single ended LRV’s as Subway- Surface Lines (10,11,13,34 and 36 )2 Kawasaki Double ended LRV’s (101 and 102) and HO scale Bullet as the Norristown Line.
Ho scale Trains of the Market Frankford Line and Broad Street Line Subway Trains
Including the Silverliner II’s,III’s, and IV’s as The Regional Rail Lines
There was a display replica of Frankford Terminal and Neoplan buses coming in and out including 2 AMG’s
replica of Chestnut Street Transitways of some of the RTS’s and little bit of the Neo’s
and 69th Terminal W/ the RTS’s and Neo’s running in and out.
Busses with under-layout magnetic tracking that move about your minature cities as they do in reality!! Wouldn’t that be a “kick in the head”? C’mon forumers, use your imagineering. Let’s keep this thread alive until we see a “workable” idea.
Art Gordon
Here’s something else bus Fans Minniapolis-St Paul model Lay Out
Corgi PCC Minniapolis-St Paul Trolley, w/ 1:50 scale models of
15 Metro 1983-2002 Gillig Phantoms and 9 1972-74 Flxible New Looks on the replica of a streetmall/ transitway of downtown Minniapolis…
Cool Huh?
Look Everyone I got an idea, Now we all know that I have been talking about these buses that I have mentioned ,right? Well How about this that any company would be
glad to make them but they don’t have to make the buses with different veriety of transit paint schemes. The buses will still be made but only untrimmed. You can make it yourself. all you need is the Transit paintscheme computer disc to pic which transit agency you want and It’ll be assembled, How’s that sound???
Here’s a website that provides rosters and some photos of various city transit systems:
As I mentioned a page or two back, I would really enjoy being able to make HO scale buses move about on a layout’s streets.
I saw a min-train display at a Hallmark store in which the train ran in a circle. There was a magnet underneath the train that was attached to a motor/arm assembly that swung around in a circle. Sort of made me think that it would be neat to have something similar for model buses and trucks.
I still believe that the ideal situation (unfortunately expensive) is for a Faller type of system.
I saw on East Penn Trolley website there was a O scale model of Portland Tri-met
LRV :
The 1:50 buses to go with that are:
1972 Flxible New Look cut into 35 footer
GMC RTS 4’s
Flxible Metros
Gillig Phantoms
and Newly built New Flyer Low Foor buses