Dinkyville Trolley AF motor

I have an Emco/GMC trolley, one of the later ones that says Dinkyville on the sides. The motor is pretty poor, and a wire from the commutator broke or burned out. I was thinking about putting an AF motor from a handcar in it. Then it would be an S gauge trolley.


Has anyone else repowered one of these?

I have not but I think it will work be a nice addition , if not handcar maybe track maintenance car motor.

I’ll let everyone know how it turns out.

yes please do.would love to see picks.

I have one of these cars that had some major issues with the shell, but the chassis runs just fine. They actually made an S gauge version too, from what I remember.

Because my chassis is good and the shell has issues, I have been debating using my chassis to power something else!

Regarding commutator wires, I remember being stumped for a long time on why my standard gauge Lionel 8E wasn’t working, only to find all the solder joints to the commutator were bad. I was able to carefully solder them all back down and it’s been happy as a clam since.

I bet the handcar motor strategy might just work, but you would need to mount it differently- iirc, the motor is held in to the trolley via the axle ends, and the metal frame is held to the plastic body with a pair of screws. But it’s been forever since I was inside it so I may be wrong.

-El

Mine has three basic parts. The plastic shell, the motor/wheel assembly, and a black sheet metal box which provides a skirt or shroud around the wheels.

I’ll never understand why nobody has produced an S gauge trolley in all these years.

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This shell from the early 50s is only 6 inches long bumper to bumper, and the roof is more like 5-1/4" so I thought it might be a good S gauge trolley. I’m waiting for a Flyer handcar motor to come in the mail.

I agree with you on that one pennytrains , all my years I have never seen a s gauge trolley!!

This might be your day. Below are pictures of my Pittsburgh Railways S gauge PCC street car running on my layout.
The picture at the suburban station is interesting because the people are S scale but the station is HO. It is the Whitehall station from Walthers. It was raised slightly to sit properly along the tracks. We thought the structure was large enough to work with S scale; it is impossible to find all the necessary structure kits in 1/64th scale.


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Here is a picture of the trolley departing the station. In the interesting trivia department, the S scale track is too narrow for the trolley. All Pittsburgh Railways track was 5’-2.5”, 6” wider than standard gauge. It is officially designated Pennsylvania Broad gauge.

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Nice looking layout

Thanks.

Wow, those trolleys are very cool. Great scenes.

Rich

This trolley is introduced on page 55 of the Dec. 1950 issue of MR magazine. According to the page, the car is powered by a gap-ring motor that utilizes front axle as a rotor… The figure is adaptation of pages 73-74 of the same issue.

love the picks AmFlyerTom the ho station look like its 1/64 thank you.

I’m not a S-Gauger but wow! That is one beautiful PCC car!
That layout section’s excellent as well!

Still waiting for my AF handcar motor to come in the mail. It’s been lost for 9-10 days. When it gets here, we’ll see if it fits.

that sucks that it is lost in the mail , but please keep us posted looking forward to it thanks

USPS?