JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

Here are some ideas for possible products that could be produced by WBB:
(Yeah, I know that WBB Will Not produce Anything on this list, Anytime Soon / Anytime At All, so this is just Wishful Thinking)

For those like me who are into Transit/Trolley/Rapid Transit/Light Rail/Interurban/Subway trains, my ideas for future WBB products are as follows: (yes, I know WBB produced Peter Witt trolleys, but here are more ideas) These would be for the O scale product line.

-PCC 'Railbus' - this was basically a de-electrified PCC and fitted with a gas or diesel engine for running without overhead wires. The New Haven RR used one long ago
-double end 2 truck JG Brill trolleys - open and enclosed versions
-Steeple-cab electric locos
-PCCs - both double and single end
-Breda/Kinki-Sharyo/Boeing-Vertol Light Rail Vehicles - As currently used by the Mass Bay Transit Authority (Boston MBTA)
-Subway cars - NYCTA (New York City) and MBTA (Boston MA)
-Metro North M 2/4/6/8, M 1/3/5/7/9 commuter cars
-Metro North Bombardier "push/pull" commuter cars
-Long Island M 2/4/6/8, M 1/3/5/7/9 commuter cars
-Long Island Bombardier "push/pull" commuter cars
-Boston MBTA Bombardier "push/pull" commuter cars
-single truck double end birney safety trolleys
-Perley-Thomas New Orleans trolleys - both the original green "Streetcar named Desire" ones and the later red "Riverfront" replica trolleys that were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina (many of these relpica trolleys have since been rebuilt, and operate on the New Orleans Public Service Inc. system)
-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
-Philadelphia SEPTA LRV's - both sinlge and double end
-Philadelphia "Strafford" Rapid Transit cars - These cars were essentially a cross between a streetcar, and an Interurban car. These cars were powered by 3rd rail only, much like a rapid transit subway train and could run as single cars or multiple unit trains.
-Chicago North Shore Line/Philadelphia Red Arrow Electroliners
-Chicago, North Shore, and Milwaukee high speed Interurban cars - including the famous 'Silverliners'
-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. The 2 cars were not accepted by any of the city subway systems in which they were tested, and ultimately became static exhibit cars at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport Maine. See this link: http://trolleymuseum.org/collection/browse.php?id=SOAC1RDC
-"Sprinter" DMU Light Rail rapid transit cars
-"Pay As You Enter" (P.A.Y.E.) Trolley Cars
- Type S-70 Light Rail Transit cars
- Toronto TTC CLRV's / ALRV's
- Montreal Tramways "Golden Chariot" Open topped, Tiered seat Observation trolley - Only 4 of these truly unique trolleys exist, and all 4 are preserved, restored, and operate at various museums: Seashore Trolley Museum (Kennebunkport Maine) Montreal Tramways #2, Warehouse Point Trolley Museum (East Windsor Connecticut) Montreal Tramways #4, and Expo Rail (Canada) Montreal Tramways #'s 1 & 3

Anyone reading this post is more than welcome to post replies, comments or other ideas specifically relating to Transit/Trolley/Rapid Transit/Light Rail/Interurban/Subway trains (Not steam / diesel / freight trains), here in the forums. The WBB guys would love to read your input as well.

Please be aware that I myself Do Not work for WBB, Nor am I Affiliated with WBB in Any Way.

Please direct your comments / replies / ideas to "Inside Track", "Yardmaster", "3 Rail", or "The Bach Mann".

Sincerely: JP

Anyone wishing to reply to my post Directly, May Do So using the following E-Mail address: jpstrainyard@yahoo.com

Otherwise, just post your replies here in the forums.

Note 1: replies, comments, or other ideas should be related to transit, Transit/Trolley/Rapid Transit/Light Rail/Interurban/Subway trains only.

Note 2: replies, comments, or other ideas Not Related to the above in "Note 1" should be posted in a separate generic "Wish List for 2020"

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

To all O Scale / O Gauge modelers -

This is the "Generic" Wishlist for 2020.
Here, you can post anything you want, including suggestions for Bachmann / WBB, regarding products that you want to see produced.
"The sky is the limit" with this wish list.

Keep in mind that I Am Not an employee of the Bachmann / WBB company, and I Am Not associated in any way with the Bachmann / WBB company, so comments and suggestions should be directed to "3 Rail", "Yardmaster" or "The Bachmann".
-JP

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

Ah. Ok.
Maybe 'The Bachmann', '3 Rail', or 'Yardmaster' might know.

As for your push-button operated layout, perhaps if you reduced the voltage a bit, then you might not wear out the worm gears, as often, vs. operating with a higher voltage.
-JP

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,
Thanks for the info.
I looked at the product description on the Williams by Bachmann website, and there are Prime Mover sounds (which I assume is the diesel engine sound), along with the horn and bell sounds.
-JP

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

Not sure if I have asked this in a previous post, but would a Williams True Blast Diesel Sound Unit, be compatible with a Lionel postwar diesel, completely replacing the postwar factory installed buzzer / buzzer solenoid / battery bracket?

Would the Williams sound unit have to be connected to a motor, for accurate engine 'rev up' / 'rev down' sounds, or does the sound unit produce the 'rev up' / 'rev down' sounds, automatically / electronically, based on voltage?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
-JP
Direct replies can be sent to jpstrainyard@yahoo.com, Subject: "Replying to your Bachmann Forum post"

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

If there is a concern regarding worm gear hole size differences between the Post War unit and the Williams unit, you could try using brass (or steel) tubing to reduce the larger hole size, down to the size you desire. Usually, hardware stores or hobby shops would sell these tubes, and they would have to be super glued together, one inside the other.
Hope this helps.
-JP

JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

I would imagine that you could order traction tires from Lionel or MTH that would fit on a Williams diesel locomotive.
Hope this helps.
-JP

JP of Acton MA, USA writes:
Yeah, I agree that Williams by Bachmann should produce an O scale PCC (both Air and All Electric), that uses the Peter Witt motor and running gear, with 'open-wheel' trucks.
The PCC could be equipped with the same 'ding-ding' electronic bell sound that the Peter Witt trolley has.

Anyway, I believe that I did list PCC cars, in my JP's Wishlist for 2019.
-JP 

JP of Acton MA, USA writes:

Oh. Ok. Cool.
Interesting to know that.

The reason that I referred to the 'Railbus' as a 'PCC Railbus', is because it sort of resembles the streamlined shape and look of a PCC.
Also, the ConCor model trains company makes HO and N scale PCC trolleys and 'Railbuses' using the PCC body, but excluding the trolley pole, and painting them in 'Railroad' road names vs. Transit road names. 

JP of Acton MA, USA Writes:

I know this is a Williams by Bachmann Forum, but regarding MTH, you could always suggest that they produce an Amtrak ACS64.
I don't know to what extent they take suggestions, but I have tried to suggest to MTH that they produce modern articulated Boston Light Rail trains as currently used on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, in Boston MA, but MTH seems to be stuck on Brill Semi Convertible trolleys and PCC trolleys. MTH just doesn't get it, do they.

I have also tried to suggest that MTH produces Boston Rapid Transit Subway trains, but (once again) MTH seems to be stuck on producing New York City and Chicago Subway trains. Again, MTH just doesn't get it, do they.

Interestingly, MTH has produced Boston Commuter Rail locomotives and passenger cars, as well as Boston PCC trolleys, and for 2018, MTH produced a Boston Elevated Railways Brill Semi Convertible trolley. Its Unbelievable, that MTH can't seem to get their heads out of their @$$es, and produce modern Light Rail trains and Boston Subway trains.
-JP

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JP of Acton MA, USA writes,

Anytime.
-JP

JP, of Acton MA, USA writes,
I have those very cars, myself. I purchased them from an E-Bay auction, and the boxes were included with the cars.
I believe they might have been produced in the early 1990s, as the cars feature 'studs' on the roof, for where a pantograph and decorative horns would go,
and each car would have one cab end, and one car would be equipped with motor trucks, and a direction control unit. Williams used the same car bodies for the 'Metroliner' 4 car Electric Multiple Unit set.

I don't own the 'Metroliner' set, though. I only own the Amfleet cars. But it would not be very difficult to convert a set of Amfleet cars to 'Metroliners'.

As for the boxes, The boxes that the cars were in, were simply white with black outlining, and the Williams Electric Trains logos on all sides and ends. No images of other train sets, though.

Hope some of this info helps.

JP, of Acton MA, USA writes:
I suppose its possible. If both the old postwar whistle unit and the Williams sound unit both use a 'bite' of DC voltage to activate the unit.
I have never attempted this 'conversion', myself, though. I posted a question about it, in an earlier post, and the reply that I received, sounded like it was possible to do that.
While Lionel trains operate on AC voltage, the horn / whistle control function on the controller, sends out a small amount of DC voltage, to power the whistle unit. Should (hopefully) work for an electronic whistle sound unit, as well.
-JP

JP of Acton MA, USA writes:
Regarding the volume of the sounds, if there is no visible volume control knob, located in an accessible area of the car, then its quite likely that you might have to remove the shell of the car, to access the volume potentiometer (also known as a 'pot' for short), that would be mounted directly to the sound circuit board. Those type of 'pots' are very sensitive, so only slight turns with a small flat-blade screw driver, until the desired volume level is adjusted to your liking.

Regarding roller pickup springs, my only suggestion would be to look on E-Bay, or at Train Shows for anyone selling those particular parts.

-JP
jpstrainyard@yahoo.com

JP, of Acton MA, USA writes:

I was just wondering when the Alco FA True Blast Plus Sound Unit will be available?
Its currently listed on the WBB website as 'Coming Soon'.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
-JP