Bought this old trolley car for five dollars at an antique shop on Long Island N.Y. I cleaned and oiled it to improve the running performance. Talk about good luck. I noticed that it was made by Mantua either in the 1950s or 1960s but it has no roadname. Has the same color scheme as the "Coney Island" which was made by Mantua around the same time period.
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Anyone who has similar models please post them. Thank you.Edited by - wks on February 27 2014 03:55:05 AM
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Love your trolley. Did it come with a pole? I have an old AHM trolley that appears almost identical, with pole. Runs like a champ. I'll bust out a posting of it soon, have to photograph it and all.
Built a small loop of track on a piece of fiber board that sits in the center of two ovals on my Tyco layout. That "insert" is the trolley loop. That way I can remove it for transit to train shows and minimizing the risk of damage.
To lay the street, I used bath tub caulk and engraved the grooves around the inside of the track- that was a lot of work! I had to carve, and carve, and then peel out more using a small drill bit as a router and then scrape and polish every inch of rail to restore conductivity.
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