Tom Lederer's HO Trolley Layout

This is Tom Lederer's HO Trolley layout, built by Chet Morton, Larry Loyko, and the late Richard Vible.
filmed at:
The 2016 Mass Transit & Trolley Modelers' Convention
of The New York City Model Transit Association &
The Shore Line Trolley Museum

[@sebatero]

The overhead system is really awesome.!

[@chrispasini5870]

I like trolleys and street cars too

[@chrispasini5870]

🆒😎 beautiful cars 🚊🚃🚋 ding ding ding ding

[@rusty.ramrod]

very cool...!
...was that one sitting static a DSR paint scheme (Detroit)?

[@jpdornberger]

Looks like it, Tom bought it at the show as a spare or for parts.

[@chrispasini5870]

Does the overhead power the train? That would be neat

[@jpdornberger]

Yes, the trolleys run on the overhead.

[@chrispasini5870]

@@jpdornberger cool. There was a group a long time ago at Pomona Fairplex Pomona CA in the Grand stand layout train and trolley they did the same thing. I enjoy the realism. Very nice layout reminds me of San Francisco and the red and white LRV remind me of the Gold line in Los Angeles county so how much for a trolley ticket 🎫🚋🚃🚊😂 kidding

[@chrispasini5870]

Probably a little bit Big to fit inside those trains 🚃🚋🚊😂 I could try probably only my finger would fit. Oh well just have to pretend.

[@victorwild3225]

The cars look great but the passengers would have whiplash due to the non scale stops and starts. Fit some lower geared motors with heavy flywheels for scale running

[@jpdornberger]

Hahaha, but your layout vidz are awesome! Oh wait, you don't have any!

[@eottoe2001]

Tom -- what kind of radius is on those turn arounds?

[@tskone8326]

I like the layout, though that desert looks anything like West and Southwest Philly... I like the loops at the ends...

[@jpdornberger]

Tom designed to look like it was in Bermuda, his custom painted cars for the line are pink.

[@mrbig4532]

Cool layout but what’s with the southwest background stuff like the palm trees and the desert ? If you want a authentic looking Philadelphia layout you need cars doubled parked in the ghettos, junky’s shooting up at your Frankford market el train , and you can layout the tracks for the 15 trolley on your layout but every couple years you have to shut down Richmond street so you can rip out the tracks that you just finished a year ago with the 50 million dollar grant from the federal and state governments and only run the trolley that everyone loves from the west Philadelphia terminal to the new casino , from there they have to get off and take a bus to the Richmond street terminal less that 2 miles away . No idea why they spend all of this money ripping out the tracks on Richmond street only to relay them 5 years later with the same promises that we heard the last time they put the tracks back down on Richmond. The promise was they were going to get a whole fleet of the old presidential series trolley cars made from old parts septa still has sitting around the city and anything else needed will be made by a private company who can manufacture these 80 year old parts cheaper than we could buy them second hand if they exist , until they start ordering the parts and a set of bearings they make for septa only last 1/8 the amount of time the originals did ?

[@jpdornberger]

Thanks for the input. This is Tom's fantasy layout, a combination of Atlantic City (Jersey shore), Bermuda (pink sand) & SoCal, with lots of Philly rolling stock.