I have some horse and cart from an earlier German layout. I wonder if I can use them on an US layout at about 1930? The layout is a small village in the north east of the US (may be Ohio). I have no idear how long horse and cart have been used in the US and if US cart differ technically from German cart (except the well known post stage coach from western movies)
Some of them are currently German lettered but that can be corrected easily.
ps.They will be used together with motor vehicled. Jordan has some great kits of early US cars and trucks.
Hi Faraway,
There certainly are areas from Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania that even today you will find those wagons and carts being used by the Amish people instead of motorized vehicles.
So you might say they are timeless. >> GO FOR IT <<
Legislation in these areas do require that they have taillights and signal lights on them for running on the local highways, so they hook them up with a car battery system to facilitate making them legal.
Johnboy out…
In the '30s, horse-drawn vehicles were fairly common, especially as the Depression dragged on. Even into the 1950’s in some locales, horse-drawn wagons delivered coal and ice, especially in smaller towns. I recall our bread and milk both being delivered by rubber-tired horse-drawn wagons into the '50s, and this was in a city of almost 200,000.
Wayne
You see plenty of shots from the 1920s and 30s that showed some horse drawn wagons even in big cities.
When I walked to high school 1967 - 1970 I would pass the last farm in my home town and that stubborn old cuss used horses exclusively to plow and harvest. The last horse drawn junk/rag and sissors/saw/knife sharpening carts disappeared from town when my sister was a girl – I was around but too young to clearly remember what they looked like. But from the late 1950s to around 1970 there were almost nightly hayrides that would go by our house in the summer months. We could hear the clop clop of the horses and the people singing on the wagon, we’d stand on our porch and wave and the driver would flash his flashlight on our house as they’d go by. Some of those nights the local volunteer firefighters would be holding practice across the street from our house and they used South Milwukee’s old LaFrance fire engine from the 1920s which still worked and was in perfect shape. Needless to say this required intense supervision from me and the other neighbor boys (and our dads were intrigued too). So under ideal circumstances in the late 1960s you could time travel back forty or more years.
Dave Nelson