O GAUGE ICE TROLLEY INSTRUCTIONS & FULL SIZE PLANS

*THIS for FULL SIZE PLANS*

Not a KIT or MODEL

THESE ARE REPRODUCTIONS OF  A 1948 PLAN

Combination Ice Trolley & Line Car

By JAMES D. HALL

Coal and Ice were good revenue and the electric lines once held a near monopoly on heavy, fast interurban hauling- -pushing the cars for every dime that was in them.

But, the Ice Trolley that I remember, in pristine whiteness, hauled no sooty coal off season. Come the first crisp days, and she'd head for the shops to pick up a working platform, lights, wire spools and lockers, and roll out again a Line Car. She was a' sturdy brute and with a mould­board plow could handle a moderate snow­fall too. Versatile was the name for the heavy-duty Interurban of long ago.

I'd like to have an Ice Trolley right now to run on three minute headways over 0 ga. track from house to hammock weighted down with welcome refreshment, wouldn't you? Well, Number 764 of the Denver Intermountain Railway fits the description like a wheel upon a rail. Treat her right and you've got two cars just as Throck­morton did but with half the bother. On some 'layouts we could paint one side white with the old Rainbow Ice leg­end; and the other side would bear the faded yellow of the D.I.M. Run her west in "summer" - East in "winter" with a five minute lay over at the shops between "seasons" to pick up the working platform. By leaving a rectangular opening in the working platform we call also avoid the labor of changing the trolley pole mount when con­verting from Ice run to Line ser­vice.

The deck of this forty-five foot inter-urban is made of quarter ply with the trucks set 9" apart on centers. The curved end pieces (fig. 2) are jig-sawed out of soft pine and are screwed to the un­derside of the deck. After the car has been completed we can build up the half-cones, between bumper and car end, with wood

O GAUGE

TROLLEY LENGTH 11 1/4” WIDTH 2”

Or you may resize to a different gauge

THERE IS TWO SHEETS 8 ½” x 11” OF BUILDING NOTES and HISTORY

ONE FULL SIZE PLANS  15” x 21”

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