JP's Wishlist for 2011

[jpstrainyard]

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

Here are some ideas for possible products that could be produced by WBB:

For those like me who are into transit/trolley/rapid transit/ligh trail trains, my ideas for future WBB products are as follows: (yes, I know WBB is already producing Peter Witt trolleys, but here are more ideas)

-double end 2 truck j.g. brill trolleys - open and enclosed versions
-PCCs - both double and single end
-Breda/Kinki-Sharyo/Boeing-Vertol Light Rail Vehicles
-Subway cars - NYCTA (New York City) and MBTA (Boston MA)
-Metro North M 2/4/6, M 1/3/5, M 7/8 commuter cars
-Metro North Bombardier "push/pull" commuter cars
-Long Island M 2/4/6, M 1/3/5, M 7/8 commuter cars
-single truck double end birney trolleys
-Perley-Thomas New Orleans trolleys - both the original green "Streetcar named Desire" ones and the later red "Riverfront" ones that were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina
-San Fransisco cable cars
-Ex Philadelphia SEPTA, now San Fransisco "F" Line PCCs as reconditioned/restored by Brookville Equipment Company of Pennsylvania, and painted to represent various cities that once ran PCCs
-Amtrak (or other road name) Metroliner EMU cars - these cars have similar body shape as Amfleet passenger cars, but include pantographs, control cabs at one or both ends, and traction motor equipped trucks
-Budd SPV 2000 EMU rapid transit cars featuring roadnames of railroads that ran them such as Amtrak and Connecticut's Metro North Railroad
-Budd B.U.R.T. Rapid Transit EMU Commuter Cars
-New Jersey Transit DMU Light Rail Rapid Transit Cars
-Philadelphia SEPTA Bullet rapid transit cars
-Chicago North Shore Line/Philadelphia Red Arrow Electroliners
-US DOT "State of the Art" Cars (SoAc) - Only 2 were built as experimental replacements for older subway cars and were tested in city subways in Boston, New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Those 2 cars were not accepted by any of the city subway systems in which they were tested, and ended up becoming exhibit pieces of the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport Maine
-"Sprinter" DMU Light Rail rapid transit cars
-"Pay As You Enter" (P.A.Y.E.) Trolley Cars
- Type S-70 Light Rail Transit cars

Anyone reading this post is more than welcome to post replies, comments or other ideas specifically relating to transit/trolley/rapid transit/light rail trains, here in the forums. The WBB guys would love to read your input as well

Sincerely: JP

Anyone wishing to reply to my post directly, may do so using the following E-Mail addresses:
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Otherwise, just post your replies here in the forums.

Note 1: replies, comments, or other ideas should be related to transit, trolley, rapid transit, light rail trains only.

Note 2: replies, comments, or other ideas not related to the above in "Note 1" should be posted in the generic "Wish List for 2010" also found on the WBB forum.

[DominicMazoch]

Williams did make Metroliners on the past.  Basicly O-31 powered Amfleets. 

[Hamish K]

Bachmann produced the Peter Witt's in HO, and then introduced them into the WBB range. They have just introduced single truck Birney's into the HO range, so perhaps.....

One item I would like to see made is a GE Steeple Cab electric locomotive. These were used on trolley lines to haul freight cars. With one you could take a freight car from the railroad and run it over the trolley tracks, I have always thought that this would be an interesting operating possibility for a combined railroad/trolley layout.

I would like to see Bachmann expand the recently announced EZ Street track system (the former K-Line Superstreets) to include turnouts  and connecting pieces for other tracks. The EZ Street track system has great potential for trolley layouts

Hamish

[jpstrainyard]

JP of Acton MA, USA writes

K-Line (which became absorbed into Lionel, to become K-Line by Lionel) did in fact produce turnout and adapter tracks for the SuperStreets tracks. However, it would seem that Lionel is not producing much in the way of K-line products anymore. Anyway, it still is possible to find various dealers who might be selling leftover K-Line by Lionel street tracks such as the turnouts and adapters. I agree though that WBB should produce the street track turnouts and adapters.

Sincerely: JP

[jpstrainyard]

JP of Acton MA, USA writes

Just tracked down the generic Wishlist for 2010, so as I had stated in Note 2: replies, comments, or other ideas not related to trolley, transit, subway, rapid transit, or light rail, in "Note 1", meaning steam, diesel, electric-profile (GG1, AEM7, etc.) should be posted in the generic "Wish List for 2010" also found on the WBB forum.

[Hamish K]

JP of Acton MA, USA writes

K-Line (which became absorbed into Lionel, to become K-Line by Lionel) did in fact produce turnout and adapter tracks for the SuperStreets tracks. However, it would seem that Lionel is not producing much in the way of K-line products anymore. Anyway, it still is possible to find various dealers who might be selling leftover K-Line by Lionel street tracks such as the turnouts and adapters. I agree though that WBB should produce the street track turnouts and adapters.

Sincerely: JP

The former K-Line tooling was divided between a number of different manufacturers last year. WBB acquired the SuperStreets range and have re-released part of the range under the EZ Street label. Lionel never owned the tooling, they had a licence to use it, which expired. So any re-release of further SuperStreets items would have to be from WBB.

Hamish

[phillyreading]

A couple of things that I would like to see made; Reading RDC passenger cars in either two or three car sets, and Super Street switches.
Super Streets look nice but must have power supplied every five feet, and need to be cleaned often. I use Super Streets on my layout so I know what problems the system has, due to the tight curve radius only smaller engines or trolleys would normally run on Super Streets. The Plymouth switcher engine by itself may run on the 21 inch curves in Super Streets, not sure about the freight cars that come with it.
MTH's Septa trolley, PCC version, runs on the 16 inch curves in Super Streets.

Lee F.