Trolleyville Times Current & Back Issues 

January 2009 - Two Southern California Great Train Expo Shows!
Con-Cor's New HO Scale Traction Products Shown!
Southern California Traction Club Model Subway Trains!
Great Train Expo Updates Show Procedures for Dealers and Exhibitors!
Finishing the Custom Traxx CLRV model!
The Law of Unintended Consquences Strikes Again!

December 2008 - Another Fantastic International RailFair in Roseville, CA!
Trolleyville is Seeking Your Opinions & Modeling Hints!
The INK was Hardly Dry......

November 2008 - Third Custom Traxx Traction Model Due This Month!
Southern California Traction Club releases their 2008-2009 appearance schedule!
South Coast Botanic Garden Hosts the Southern California Traction Club for the 9th time!
Working Together to Improve Traction Modeling!
San Francisco "Milano" 1807 being repaired to return to service!

October 2008 - NorthWest Short Line Sold!
New Line of Resin Traction Carbodies from Custom Traxx!
Progress in San Diego!
Another HO scale Traction Model - The Philadelphia PCC-II!

September 2008 - The July 2008 National Train Show (NTS), Anaheim, CA!
Honorable Mention for the Southern California Traction Club at the Anaheim NTS!
Custom Traxx Traction Kits with Resin Car Bodies!
Arnie's Model Trains - Don't Pass It By!
The National Train Show & Layout Displays - Time For a Policy Change?
Mattapan PCC News!
Great Train Expo 2009 Schedule Released!

August 2008 - Two Summer Model Train Shows!
The Derby City Express, Louisville, KY & the World's Largest Modular Model Railroad Display - June 28-29, 2008!
The Big Train Show, Ontario, CA June 7-8, 2008!
Another new handy product from Custom Traxx - New Bowser Sideframe Spacers!
Coming Next Issue...the 2008 Anaheim National Train Show!

July 2008 - Two New HO scale Trolley Models Announced!
More Traction Resin Body Shells - The KCPS "Unique" All-Electric PCC!
Trolleyville Visits the Louisville World's Greatest Hobby On Tour Show!
Custom Traxx makes new Trolley Pole Springs and Overhead Wire Contacts Available!
Louisville & the PCC Car - A Brief Review!

June 2008 - For Visiting San Francisco F-Line Trolley Fans!
More HO Traction Items From Custom Traxx!
Southern California Traction Club Gears Up for Anaheim National Train Show!
San Francisco Heritage Streetcars Visit Metro East Facility!
"Trackless Trolley" Service Resumes in Philadelphia!
Aristocraft Trains & Con-Cor Announce New Model PCC Cars!

May 2008 - Trolleyville Goes to China!
Touring Sanda Kan and AFFA Technology Facilities!
Adding a Headlight to the Bowser PCC!
Help for Catenary Modelers!
San Francisco Car 162 Makes Maiden Voyage!
NorthWest Short Line Update!
Baltimore Peter Witt Decal Set from Custom Traxx!

April 2008 - The Annual Golden Empire Historical & Modeling Society Show
The Orange Empire Spring Swap Meet!
A Tip for Renumbering the HO scale Bachmann Baltimore Peter Witt!
San Francisco Car 162 - The Long Way Back!
New Streetcar Carbodies Coming from Custom Traxx!
An East Penn Traction Club Workshop!
Bowser Manufacturing Testing Revised Operational Trolley Pole!

March 2008 - Trolley News From San Francisco [As usual - All Good!]
Imagineering - Another Way to Enjoy the Hobby!

February 2008 - New Custom Traxx Decal Set for the HO Scale Bachmann Peter Witt!
The Del Mar, CA World's Greatest Hobby Show on Tour - Another Winner!
DCC for Trolley Cars - A Second Opinion from Howard Andrews!
The Bachmann Peter Witt - Other Reports!
Another Model Trolley Coming From Con-Cor!
Coming from Light Rail Products!
Traction Display at a Montessori School!
More Traction Decal Sets Coming!
Replacement Trolley Poles Available!
Protection, Censorship or ? - Part II!

January 2008 - Two Southern California Great Train Expo Shows!
Electric Railway Modeling Clubs Open to New Members!
A Remotored Suydam PE1544 (Electra) with the Hollywood Foundry BullAnt LoBoy!
First Impressions of the Bachmann Peter Witt (HO)!
An inside view of the New & Friendly Allied Model Trains!
Protection or Censorship? Modeling Trolleys is Not National Defense!

December 2007 - Another Great International Railfair in Roseville, CA!
San Francisco Rolls Out Ex-Milan Peter Witt Car 1818!
DCC Overhead Wire Operation Demonstrated at Allied Model Trains!
Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) Models Wanted (Has The Time Finally Come?)!

November 2007 - Allied Model Trains Grand Reopening Celebration!
San Francisco Continues Work on Class B Car 162!
More Progress on DCC with Overhead Wire Operation!
Bachmann HO Scale Peter Witt Photos!

October 2007 - Allied Model Trains Grand Reopening Set for October 6th!
The BullAnt "LoBoy" - A Solution to a Major Problem for LARy and PERy modelers!
The HO scale SEPTA Single End Kawasaki LRV - Another Resin Kit for Trolley Modelers!
KND Enterprises HO Scale Lehigh Valley Transit Car 812 Kit (Part 2)!
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Hosts the Southern California Traction Club!
The MTS HO Scale PSTCo Brilliner - A real Jewel!

September 2007 - Bachmann Announces HO Scale Peter Witt Streetcar!
A Conversation with a Resin Kit Producer!
The MTS HO scale PSTCo Brilliner Arrives !
KND Enterprises HO Scale Lehigh Valley Transit Car 812 Kit (Part 1)!
Customer Gripes About Internet Vendors!

August 2007 - Resin Traction Kits - Why Not?
New "Friendlier" Allied Model Trains Opens!
How Some Internet Businesses Irritate Their Customers!
The San Francisco Muni Class K/L Streetcar Kit with BullAnt Power!
Model Traction Display at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum!

July 2007 - Traction Display at Banning Museum
New "Friendlier" Allied Model Trains to Re-open This Month!
Father's Day at the Orange Empire Railway Museum!
New Traction Products!

June 2007 - The 18th National Trolley Modelers Meet
CIA, Inc sells Great Train Expo and Greenberg Toy and Train Shows!
Meet the Folks at Bowser Manufacturing!
PCCII Inspection Tour!

May 2007 - Allied Model Trains Sold - the Saga of the Sale!
The East Penn Traction Club - A Premier Traction Club!
Ex-Newark PCC Cars Begin Service in San Francisco!
Custom Traxx Previews the MTS "Red Arrow" Brilliner!
Southern California Traction Club runs Five-car Model Pacific Electric "Blimp" Train!

April 2007 - Live Steamers and Traction?
More PCC Cars for San Francisco!
What's Wrong or Right with the Hobby?
Pursuing DCC Operation as a Trolley Modeler!
Southern California Traction Club to Appear at South Coast Botanic Garden!

March 2007 - Custom Traxx to Release New Decal Sets
World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Continues to Set Attendance Records!
ATSF 4-8-4 #3751 Visits Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal!
Custom Traxx to close for the East Penn Traction Club Meet!
Another convert to Digital Command Control!

February 2007 - The First Anaheim, CA Great Train Expo (GTE)
What a Difference 14 years makes - Philadelphia PCC 2122!
The Southern California Traction Club 66th display at Anaheim!
More trolley model photos from Great Britain!
Another Great Model Train Show in Pleasant Surroundings draws record crowds - Bakersfield!
Two More PCC cars for San Francisco!
More Trolley Model Photos!
New HO Scale San Francisco Trolley Model Coming!

January 2007 - The Great Train Expo (GTE) Arrives in Southern California
San Francisco Gets Another PCC!
HO Scale Traction Modeling - Today's Reality!
Trolley Modeling Featured in Life Magazine!
Trolley Modelers on Another Continent!
Kansas City PCC 551 Returns Home!
Southern California Traction Club Elects New Board of Directors!
Custom Traxx Offer to New Traction Modelers!

December 2006 - The Northern California Model Railroad Show - Always Worth the Drive!
Southern California Traction Club Unveils New Subway Train Module!
"Toronto" PCC arrives in San Francisco!
HO Scale "Brilliner" Coming!
Thomas The Tank Engine Visits Orange Empire Railway Museum!

November 2006 - Two More PCCs for San Francisco's F-line!
The Great Train Expo - Don't Miss It!
World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Shows - Best Bet!
San Francisco's Newest Museum
Orange Empire Railway Museum Celebrates 50 years!
Trolleyville Apology (Spammers)

October 2006 - San Francisco Adds Another PCC!
Southern California Traction Club Welcomes Foreign Member!
The United States Post Office - [Incompetent and seemingly satisfied with it!] - [Editorial]
Narrow Gauge Bowser Power Truck Conversion!
Great Train Expo Visits San Jose!
For Yakima, WA Trolley Fans!

September 2006 - Trolleyville Visits Bill Everett's Premier Model Traction Empire
More Example's of Bill Everett's Model making Skills!

August 2006 - Support Your Local Hobby Shop?
More PCC Cars for San Francisco!
More Traction Items from the Hollywood Foundry (BullAnt)!

July 2006 - Three Car "Blimp" Trains Rolls at OERM!
Great Train Expo Releases Revised 2006 Show Schedule!
The Queen Mary Big Train Show!
Leaving the Queen Mary After 16 Years!
World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Announces Five 2007 Shows!
Custom Traxx Releases New Traction Decals!

June 2006 - Another Conversation with Dave Swanson, Model Train Show Promoter!
Trolleyville Library Listings Expanded!
The Great Western & Atlantic Train Show - a study in management incompetence [Editorial]!
Southern California Traction Club holds Spring Barbecue!

May 2006 - Rest In Peace - Great Western & Atlantic Train Show!
Marvelous Muni Moves Onward - More Colorful PCC cars!
Southern California Traction Club at the South Coast Botanic Gardens!
A Thought on Photograph Identification by George Jones!
Southern California Traction Club Run Day at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum!

April 2006 - Southern California Traction Club to Embrace DCC!
Trolleyville Wants Your Modeling Ideas!
A Major Milestone for a Long Time Avid Trolley Fan!
Trolley Modeling - A Cure for Many of Life's Irritations!

March 2006 - World's Greatest Hobby on Tour - 2006!
San Diego Gets PCC Cars for Heritage Line!
New Traction Decals from Custom Traxx!
Another New Module for the SCTC!

February 2006 - The BullAnt - A New Versatile Traction Power Drive!
The First California Great Train Expo (Sacramento)!
Trolleyville visits Clover House!
The Anaheim Great Western & Atlantic Train Show!

January 2006 - Streetcars Run Again in New Orleans
Trolleyville Vendors Show Schedule for 2006!
Great Train Expo Expanding during 2006!
New Association of Modular Model Railroaders forming!
SCTC to appear at first California Great Train Expo!
New HO scale Traction Product! - Trolley pole towers for Pacific Electric Diesels!

December 2005 - The Northern California Model Train Show
Another Repowering - The Fairfield Cincinnati Car Co 1918 Interurban (C&LA/Sand Springs Ry. Co)!
IHC Re-releases the Boeing Standard Light Rail Vehicle (HO scale)!

November 2005 - Dave Swanson & Model Train Shows - A Revealing Discussion
iHobby Expo in Los Angeles!
Remotoring the HO scale NWSL 1930 Master Unit!

October 2005 - Route 15 Finally Runs!
Trolley Talk Resumes Publication!
The IHP Air-Electric PCC - Final Comment?
Points of Trolley History - 4!
Central Coast Trains - Don't Pass It By!
New decals from Custom Traxx!

September 2005 - IHP PCC Cars - Part II
Modifying the IHP Pre-War PCC car!
Another New Orleans Car for San Francisco!
Southern California Traction Club Appears in RailModel Journal!
New Decals Coming from Custom Traxx!

August 2005 - GATS becomes GWAATS
Great Train Expo Coming in 2006!
Trolley Talk Acquires New Owner!
Southern California Traction Club modules in RailModel Journal!
Trolleyville Evaluates the Imperial Hobby Products PCC cars!

July 2005 - Trolleyville Visits LGB
Homestead Museum Hosts Pacific Electric Display!
Custom Traxx July Decal Sale!
Trolley Talk Magazine Getting New Owner!
Long Beach Queen Mary Large Scale Train Show!
East Penn Traction Club Elects New Officers!

June 2005 - 2005 East Penn Traction Club Meet
Trolleyville Examines the PCC-II!
Visits to MTS Imports, Inc and Bowser-Stewart!
Liars-Liars-Liars (A Trolleyville Editorial)!

May 2005 - More Colorful PCC Cars Coming to San Francisco
Pomona Club Forced to Relocate!
Points in Trolley History - 4!
Upgrades for the Boeing SLRV Mechanism!
Custom Traxx to Display at East Penn Meet!

April 2005 - World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Shows an Unqualified Success
Orange Empire Railway Museum Rolls Out the PERy 1299!
Improving the Appearance of the Hartland Locomotive Works Large Scale Birney!
All Aboard Model Railroad Emporium (Torrance, CA) Closes!
Southern California Traction Club adds a new module!

March 2005 - 28,000 Attend World's Greatest Hobby on Tour in Long Beach, CA
New NorthWest Short Line Flat Can Motor for Traction Repowerings
"Silly Philly" Strikes Again!
San Francisco Boeing SLRV Decals on the Way!
Custom Painted Large Scale Birneys Coming!
Corgi Classics Latest Colorful 1:50 PCC Car!

February 2005 - The Future of Traction Modeling!
Southern California Model Train Activity!
World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Coming to Long Beach Convention Center!
Southern California Traction Club begins Tenth Year!
Custom Traxx Show Schedule!
Great American Train Show exits Pomona-Fairplex!

January 2005 - Southern California Model Train Shows for 2005!
Southern California Traction Club open to new members!
Nickel Silver Wheelsets for Bowser HO scale traction units!
New Large Scale Traction Decals Coming from Custom Traxx!
Custom Traxx Show Schedule for 2005!

December 2004 - Bowser SLRV & LRT Floors with Mechanisms Released!
Another Fine Northern California Model Railroad Show
The Trolleyville Mission!
World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Shows Coming!
Pomona-Fairplex Revisited!

November 2004 - Southern California Traction Club Invited to HobbyVisions, Las Vegas!
SCTC 2005 Schedule.
Bowser Purchases Stewart Hobbies!
More About Bowser Traction Floors.
World's Greatest Hobby on Tour Announces Their Shows!

October 2004 - Orange Empire Railway Museum Swap Meet!
New Traction Floors from Bowser!
Miniatronics Neat New Reversing Unit.
Pacific Electric "Blimps" - ACF vs Pullman.

September 2004 - August Model Traction Displays!
New Traction Items!
Trolleyville Changes!
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