This photo really puts into perspective just how impressive these traction models are in this scale and size. Frankly, we're hooked ... and building and maintaining a trolley museum in this scale is a heck of a lot less costly than trying to maintain and run full size restorations of the real thing ! ... not to mention the effort and cost of restoration .
Trying to impress the public, and especially the children ? We don't think that you can do better than this for WOW Factor !
We don't believe that we have to impress on anyone who ventures into this scale how senseless it would be to try to climb up on the roof and ride it !
Electricity costs would be substantially less, as would trackwork --- and much easier to lay and spike. Miniature passenger figures could be based on fashion dolls and figurines with a length (height) of between 16 inches (female) and 18 inches (male) .
As we have suggested elsewhere, an entire new cottage industry of crafts people and hobby tailors could spring up, to produce realistic clothing -- civilian, American, ca. 1920-1940 --- for these potentially spectacular miniatures.
Everybody wins, especially those of us weary of World War II, the Wehrmacht, and GI Joe ! We welcome your (carefully considered) comments . Please, no commercial advertising (we check and edit all comments carefully); no crude or vulgar remarks ; ... but we do care what you think !
By the way, we have heard rumors floating about that the Tampa (Florida) Electric Company commissioned --- in this one-fourth scale --- a display model of this streetcar . Their relatively new trolley system goes from the Old Historic Town of Ybor City to the Florida Aquarium, the Cruise Ship docks, and the Hotel and Conference Center. We have not yet received a reply to our request for information from the Tampa Trolley Board about the existence or display of this rumored mega-scale model.
If you're going to be coming to Tampa for the Republican National Convention, you might want to check these latter fascinating sites out. If you're going to be there, try to obtain information about that mega-scale display .
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