NEW YORK CITY MODEL TRANSIT SYSTEM





"EL" and TROLLEY System in 1/4" O-Scale (1:48)








BY: JOSEPH FRANK


NYC Transit Layout Model Designer, Builder and Photographer









NOTE: BE PATIENT !!! --- this is a VERY LONG "HUGE" photo site of many pages - so viewers with "dialup" mode, give it a minute or two for fully "Loading Up" onto your system. Thanks!!
(It WILL be WORTH the trip...enjoy!!)




IMPORTANT PHOTOS NOTE: ----- Most of the photos on this site are unfortunately very LOW resolution due to uploading thru an MSN WebTV Modem unit via "video camera VHS tape image "freeze-captures" between 2001 and 2007.




HOWEVER, fortunately and happily, since mid 2009 quite many newer very sharp high resolution digital photos have been taken using a new quality CANON digtal camera, and stored via using FLICKR Photo Albums Hosting server ! These ALL NEW digital PHOTOS are via COMPUTER, uploaded to my brand new FLICKR Albums to view there, in place of the low-res now ancient WEBTV technology images still on-site here !!




Some small few new sharp digital replacement images were actually already uploaded onto this site on 12-9-2010.

HOWEVER - it was decided to be faster and easier to instead simply install LINKS to my various FLICKR PHOTO ALBUMS for viewing all the countless new better sharper image digital photos of this O Scale NY City EL & Trolley Layout at that ALBUMS website !!!




This Website last updated
Sunday 4-8-2012. Previous updates were Thursday 12-9-2010; Friday 7-20-2007; and Tuesday 3-26-2006

Track level (trackwalkers') view of an IRT R-17 car in mid 1960's MTA colors at head of local train on the El stopped at local station as passenger hurries to get on board.

IRT Steel Standard HI-V Motor # 3739 leads train of HI-V subway cars along local track along the mainline of the El.

HISTORY OF THE O-SCALE " N.Y. CITY MODEL TRANSIT SYSTEM " "EL" & TROLLEY -- EXHIBIT LAYOUT THE "NEW YORK CITY MODEL TRANSIT SYSTEM" -- IN 1/4" O-Scale, was Designed and Built back in 1985 by JOSEPH FRANK to re-create the images and memories of the IRT & BMT Elevated Train Lines and the Trolley Car and Bus Surface Lines of earlier New York City, and to "capture" the look and aura of the multi - neighborhood N.Y. City-scape panoramas that the "EL's" and their Rolling Stock passed through in the Era Period between 1940 through 1970's +. ************************************************** IT WAS BUILT AS A NEAR TO TRUE-SCALE AS POSSIBLE "MODEL FORMAT" REPRODUCTION EXHIBIT OF NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT, AND IS DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO ENJOY BOTH THE PROTOTYPE AND MODEL REALM OF VARIOUS TYPES OF N.Y.C. TRANSIT !! ************************************************

IRT Elevated MUDC Train enters local station seen from opposite side of EL tracks

Looking out from an EL local station platform to an IRT EL "Q" type rush-hour express train passing by on center express track.

IRT Steinway"1939 Worlds Fair" type Low-V Motor car heads EL local train in this trackside view as it switches routes on the EL.

View on EL of scratchbuil NYCTA R-127 Work motor on local track in work train with flat car

Sidewalk view looking up toward IRT Q-Type local EL train passes by a NYC style Bishop Crook gooseneck streetlight by the EL

Mid 1940's era General (GM) Motor type bus in the NYC "Surface Transportation System Co." colors stops at a bus stop under track sunlighted-shadows of the overheaf EL station --and next to a 3rd Ave. Railway System (TARS) streetcar next to El station stairway.

PICTURE ILLUSTRATION INFORMATION ALL PASSENGER ROLLING STOCK have authentic, COMPLETE detailed exteriors, as well as COMPLETE interiors; including scale seats, car Ad cards and Ad signs, destination signs, MM Cabs & controls in motor cars, and authentic scale appropriate underbody hardware, and trucks and details !!

Looking along underside of El track-- girder structure towards approaching Third Ave. Railway System streetcar running under Trolley wire passing GMC "Surface Transportation System Co." GMC Bus

Looking out front on El Train entering a local station platform on the EL..as captured from a moving train video !!

E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR WEBMASTER CONTACT IS: nycmodeltransit@webtv.net (JOSEPH FRANK)

Some of the station platform details, lamps and ad signs with tenement building in background

View from front of El train running along local track on the EL showing tenements and stores alongside the structure

ALSO - CHECK OUT OUR ADDITIONAL LINKS !! LINKS to other very interesting photo and text "NYC Transit" related websites are located at the end (last page) of THIS website ---please look for them and check them out also --I KNOW YOU WILL enjoy them !! Thanks for looking !!- (The NYCMTS Webmaster !)

Mid-Platform View of IRT 3rd Ave. EL ex-BMT Q-Type class train entering an EL local station platform as an IRT EL MUDC class express train passes on center track.

Looking across the tracks to the opposite station
platform showing platform ad signs and apartment
building behind under a bright cloud filled sky !!

IRT '1880 era' El gate Trailer (left) coupled to a 1902 era El Motor car in train stopped at an EL local station as seen from oppsite platform. Former
steam-engine era El trailers had a lower roofline than later post 1901 era cars built "electrified" as new.

High-semaphore type signal governing center express track interlocking on the EL