Ha - yes, eerily similar to me working on my mediocre model railroad! the “Trains kept a rollin’” one way or another! 
Cheers
Nick
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Hi, unfortunately I just found this post. It really is neat.
Back in October, at the Fort Wayne Allen County Public Library genealogy area, I saw they have a couple dozen books on trolleys, interurbans etc. I actually took a picture of how many there were I thought I’d post them here, but did not. Maybe soon?
I can’t remember what book it is, maybe The Trains We Rode? There is a section on interurbans etc, and stated that at the turn of the 20th century, one could ride from Portland Maine all the way out to near Denver Colorado or maybe even further west, on trolleys and interurbans, with only like a 20 mi gap somewhere in Alabama. It was a very circuitous route though, but it could be done!
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Thank you for the link KoSprueOne. I am surprised that their solution worked. 
I had my doubts. 
Thank you for the video Robin. I need a job where I get paid to figure out what you have to do to make things wreck!! 
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Special Ops has certainly evolved since the days of one time pads and cigarette timers, A modern SF guy would have cut the lock on the switch, diverted the train to the town with the best brothel, sold all of the goods on the train on the black market (and booby trapped anything of value to the enemy) then placed thermite grenades on the side rods, and maybe even one on the boiler for good measure,
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The guaranteed way is to shift the cut rails one inch more than a rail width sideways, basically creating a turnout/switch/set of points. Requires some hard work and will be noisy.
Blowing the tracks in a curve is much better than doing it on a straight section. this also gives the engineer/driver less time to try and slow down, not that it matters much considering the very long brake distances for trains.
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Me too. I thought the first try would’ve worked as good as the last try, which also worked. I don’t know the exact continuity of the editing either.
I could spend hours there looking at those
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I must admit, interurbans and trolleys have a lot of charm and mystique to them. I took as many photos of the trolley car at Lake Minnetonka as I did a steam locomotive in Oklahoma.
I have planned to incorporate and interurban and a trolley scene into my layout once I finally start building it. I’d really love to build the Mini Art European trolley, but I’m just not up to building kits with 800 parts anymore.
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You can build it as you want to and don’t have to use all 800 parts 
I’d like to see your build progress on your layout.
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What KoSprueone said! I only used about 250 parts each because I customised/scratched three Prague variants, but the Euro kit OOB would be a really interesting project – just mask off the other 60-odd steps and treat each one in isolation, typically less than 10 components each one. It would go together really well, no fit-issues I recall.
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Just a few of the rare trolley books on sale at the local hobby shop.
(R. Ford estate collection)
(At Berkshire Trains, Lexington, KY)
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@165thspc Thanks for sharing your museum pictures.
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Good looking books that are probably great ref material.
I have one book with lots of pictures I scored from a thrift store (or maybe the local library lobby shop, can’t remember).
Buses, Trolleys, and Trams by Chas. S. Dunbar.
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The Hobbbyshop has a copy of that same book for sale also, should anyone be interested.
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This may be of some interest, albeit slightly off-topic. FWIW, the railway replaced (and utilised the course of) a previous canal.
BBC One - Villages by the Sea, Series 4, Port Carlisle, “It was worth paying a few more pence”
The Dandy Car survives in the National Railway Museum, York.
Regards,
M
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I was out on tracks today with a tree trimming crew, and laid up on the freight track across from us were these brand new hopper cars! Very interesting. Sadly, the graffiti artist have already gotten to them.
This track is the Brentwood Double Ended freight track next to Mainline 1 and 2, Long Island RR. Brentwood passenger station is just west of this freight track.
Here’s the older hopper cars as a comparison. There was about 7 of the old cars coupled to 15 or so new types.
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