In looking at the auction listings, I saw this; is it for real?

https://connect.invaluable.com/stout/auction-lot/Bachmann-On30-Prototype-Alco-FA2-AB-Diesel-Units_0434E7DA3E/#

Quote from: jpstrainyard on December 28, 2018, 10:09:17 PM
JP of Acton MA, USA writes,
-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

As I recall that was a Mack Railbus, not a PCC.

A PCC trolley (either air or all-electric; or both ) based on the Peter Witt drive train and no electronics but with the proper trucks.

All that I would like to see is a re-release of the two-bay hoppers.

Nice, the improvement in the look is great. I just do not have the patience to do this; or the steady hands anymore!

Quote from: jaedub51 on April 01, 2018, 08:28:09 PM
...snip... 18v, 80 amp transformer.  ...snip...

80 Amp??? You could weld with that!

O scale as the scenery and trains are O.

Quote from: dutchbuilder on October 26, 2017, 02:47:44 AM
Then you have to replace the entire headlight.
Ton

That is what I was referring to as it would seem to me to be easier just to replace the whole assembly.

I thought these headlights plugged into the body of the locomotive.

I, too, like cabbage stacks and was thinking of changing the stacks on most of my fleet. However, the standard gauge Challenger might just look a bit, well, strange!

What other service are you using? I know of "Flicker" but have no experience with them. I closed my PB account when this started. Note that your photos may still be on Photobucket, just not linkable.

Thank you. That information cued up a latent memory but without the names. I am familiar with Q-Car and use a few of his products but he would want to replace the drive with his own. I just want the wheel flanges turned down to scale dimensions as there is nothing wrong with the WBB drive. At a Deland, Florida train show I remember talking to a fellow from Boston who had a couple of operating East Penn compatible modules there and asking him about the conversion. My mistake was not writing anything down. Again, thank you, I will be contacting them soon.

Sometime after the Witt was introduced, there was a person (in or near Boston, MA, I believe) that would convert these to scale wheels and pole to be able to run on scale layouts such as the East Penn Traction Club modules. Does anyone here remember who and if they are still doing it? Note that the wheels were not insulated for two-rail, the car runs off of the overhead wire.

Nice workmanship there. Gives me an idea for my 2-6-6-2.; oil-fired though.

Quote from: p51 on March 29, 2017, 07:41:50 PM
I assume they're on the passenger car frames, from the pre-production sample I saw a while back in person...

They appear to be on a passenger car frame; there are cut-outs for the stepwells. I checked it against a passenger car and a boxcar; definitely a passenger car frame.