I had a Schylling clockwork Mickey Mouse handcar and a rail Zeppelin plus a pair of cheap reproduction Paya trams
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What is that in front of the nice bungalow?
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The bungalows were paper but that’s one of the 2 Chinese Paya repops I have.
They’re nice little toys but they have awful mechanisms.
The wheels rub on the shell and clearly aren’t the type that’s supposed to be used. I don’t think I even have the thin keys that came with these but I do have the boxes.
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They look neat!
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The green one is available here: https://tintoyarcade.com/?s=Tram&post_type=product
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I’ve put together a slide show of my trolleys. But you know what? I CAN’T find the handcar! It’s buried in the pile out in the Chugger Barn and I’m sure it’ll surface eventually. When it does I’ll post a picture. But in the meantime here’s the trolley collection.
My best score! A special TCA run of only 125 honestly I have to say IT found ME!
One of our club fundraiser trolleys, the side number is the date it was issued (1988, a little tough to see). Made by Bowser and I wish Bowser still made 'em, it’s rugged and darn near bulletproof!
Another Bowser fundraiser, same story.
This one found me too, an Atlas Industrial Rail product. Picked it up at a local train show about 20 years ago, more or less. And as I understand it Atlas is producing trolleys again!
Another club fundraiser trolley, this one’s an MTH product.
This is one I made a repaint project out of. It was kind of a nondescript MTH product I turned into a North Jersey Rapid Transit Car. The NJRT ran through Bergen County NJ from 1909 to 1929.
And the PCC’s! This one’s the Philadelphia Transit Company’s PCC. PTC became today’s SEPTA system. I lucked into this one at a York show last year and the only reason I knew about this particular type of PCC was from an article I read in “Railpace” several weeks earlier concerning SEPTA’s restoration of their PCC’s to their original finishes. Turned a corner and spotted it. “Hey! I know what THAT is!”
Lucked into this Jersey Transit PCC at a Greenberg show in Chantilly VA. The seller looked at me funny and asked “You’re not from around here, are you?”
And now the ONLY one I actually went looking for since I knew it existed. Finally found one at trainz.com. Decent price too!
I’ve got two more Atlas trolleys for repaint projects. When those are done I’ll showcase them but it’s going to be a while.
I never had any intention of collecting trolleys but it just sorta happened. Know what I mean?
Hope you enjoyed the “slide show”!
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Thanks @Flintlock76 there are some neat ones there for sure!
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Thanks!
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Nice! Trolleys DO sorta grow on you, don’t they?
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As do collections of them…
I do own a trolley (actually a powered-and-dummy set) but it’s in N Scale.
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I hear you!
But I think this is as far as I’m going to go book-wise, unless someone else puts out something I find interesting.
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The Middleton books are really good
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Wow! I’ve only ever seen those in old magazine ads
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I have one as well. Mine is in far poorer condition, I need to perform some repair work on it. A very neat little critter to own, though I never understood why they called it a ‘hand car’ when it is clearly modeled after a speeder (or putt-putt, as many like to call them).
-El
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I’ve also seen speeders referred to as “go karts” or even “golf carts”, though I can’t remember where!
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The motors were so puny on these. My trolley had a burned out wire. I just replaced it with an S gauge motor to make my own S gauge trolley.
@Paulloeh did too
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…and then there was the Toonerville Trolley
The originals were usually a clockwork floor toy but they were also offered with flanged wheels for track running. One of these days I’ll find the track version. The Rich-Art has an electric motor and doesn’t replicate the off center wheel which makes the original lurch back and forth.
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