I wish to make a Inter-city trolley system using the brill trolleys. I have a idea of making a certain area look like a down town 1930-to early 40’s entertainment section of town. I was wondering if anyone has ever come across HO figurines such as newsmen with cameras that might have a fiber octive in it to look like a bulb flash. Or any ideas of how maybe to do this or make it look like it is being done.
Thanks for your returns
If you want a light try mintronics I seem to remember walthers selling an arc welder kit that was designed to go inside of a building and give off a flickering blue light,perhaps that could be a starting point for you.Good luck and [#welcome] to the forum.
Rob
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you can buy fiber optics thru walthers, super bright LEDS also, a flasher unit is an open question. I can only think of looking for some hobby LED flash kit or something from a dime or dollar store gimmick.
For the effect just drill a hole into the LED just big enough for the Fiber optic, don’t be afraid to drill into it, its just plastic, just don’t hit the diode portion, I have done this already with fiberoptics.
then figger the best lead to your mini photo guy, heat the end near a soldering iron to broaden the end. flash away.
[#ditto] I believe that Woodland Scenics or Preiser made a figure with an old style camera/flash in a set. Check Walthers. My [2c]
Preiser makes a set of “railfans with cameras,” item 590-10545:

You could re-paint them as photographers from an earlier era, and add the huge flash unit they had back then.
“Inter-city” to me sounds more like the old Interurban rail system. Small trolleys like the Brill would have been used for local service only. If you are really looking for a local system trolley, you might consider Bachmann’s new Peter Witt trolleys:

I’ve got one of these, and I think it’s a great model. It comes with a DCC decoder, and it even has a built-in speaker enclosure, although the included decoder doesn’t have sound, and there’s no speaker in the unit. I’ve put sound in mine, using the DIGITRAX SFX-0416 sound-only decoder. (It hasn’t been programmed for traction sounds yet, though, so right now my trolley sounds like an SD-40.)
Thanks tracksters for the info. I will be doing some research into these products. If I am able to come up with something useful I will post and let you know. Thanks again.