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
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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 a generic "Wish List for 2012"
Houston METRO is getting an add on order of UTA A-70's so we sould be getting the short nose version. METRO got the first S70's, and the only ones with the big nose!
Williams did have the Mtroliners in stock. The SPV 2000 could be a powered Metro car, with cabs at both ends, and no pantograph!