Vintage tram

[Mike Amos]

Fantastic piece.

[jo-ke]

Wow. what a masterpiece! Of course I love that model! German trams are the best!

[kolibri69]

The under frame.

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[pbacot]

Should be on the finest modeling thread! It would be great to have a gallery just of pictures of all the best trams, trains and buses done in SketchUp. All labors of love.

[HornOxx]

Jo-Ke is right, this is a masterpiece ! - love it! also the detail-"breakup" is cool!
@PBACOT: this "Best Tram & Trains"-idea is a good one! at least 2 "Presenters" already occur to me

[kolibri69]

Here are 2 photos, of several, after which I created the model.

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[railwaxking]

Hello Kolibri69,
excellent work

Maybe you are interested in this old drawings from the archive of the german state northrhine westphalia:

Bochum
http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=1&id=2996&klassId=68&verzId=11883&expandId=61&tektId=3648&bestexpandId=3647&suche=1
http://www.landesarchiv-[url]nrw.de/digitalisate/Abt_Westfalen/Kartensammlung_A/~017/01793/W_Karten_A-01793_r.jpg[/url]

Münster
http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=1&id=2996&klassId=68&verzId=11945&expandId=61&tektId=3648&bestexpandId=3647&suche=1
[url]www.landesarchiv-nrw.de/digitalisate/Abt_Westfalen/Kartensammlung_A/~017/01762/W_Karten_A-01762_r.jpg[/url]

http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=1&id=2996&klassId=68&verzId=11944&expandId=61&tektId=3648&bestexpandId=3647&suche=1
[url]www.landesarchiv-nrw.de/digitalisate/Abt_Westfalen/Kartensammlung_A/~017/01761/W_Karten_A-01761_r.jpg[/url]

http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=1&id=2996&klassId=68&verzId=11956&expandId=61&tektId=3648&bestexpandId=3647&suche=1
[url]www.landesarchiv-nrw.de/digitalisate/Abt_Westfalen/Kartensammlung_A/~017/01773/W_Karten_A-01773_r.jpg[/url]

oberhausen
http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=1&id=2996&klassId=68&verzId=11974&expandId=61&tektId=3648&bestexpandId=3647&suche=1
[url]www.landesarchiv-nrw.de/digitalisate/Abt_Westfalen/Kartensammlung_A/~021/02117/W_Karten_A-02117_r.jpg[/url]

Greatings from Germany
Martin

i don't know why the jpg-links don't work. You have to copy the links manualy into your browser (without the url-tags).

[L i am]

Missed this one, lovely work mate

[tuna1957]

Great stuff...

[kolibri69]

Hi Martin,
Thanks for the links. I will work through it.

Greetings from Germany, Jena
Matthias

[railwaxking]

Hi Matthias (kolibri69),
in my previous post i set a link to a drawing of a pole/pylon. I think the pole could be a good addition to your tram. Yesterday I made a quick sketchup Modell of this pole and a Twilight render. If you don't mind i show the result in this thread.

In the moment i don't know, how the wire was attached to the pole.
If i disturb your thread, i will delate my entry.
Greating from Mölln, SH, Germany
Martin

[kolibri69]

Hi Martin,

looks good.
Good websites for the search are
https://archive.org
with the keywords:
"Strassenbahn, elektrisches Bahnen, Bahnmotoren" english "tram, electric trains, rail engines"
for example:
Elektrische Strassenbahnen by Zachrcias, Johannes 1903
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UvQNAAAAYAAJ/page/n6

Die Bahnmotoren für Gleichstrom. Ihre Wirkungsweise, Bauart und Behandlung. Ein Handbuch für Bahntechniker, Müller 1903
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_knA5AAAAMAAJ/page/n3

and the side of the TU Darmstadt with their digital stock of historical books on the railway industry
https://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/ulb/digitalisierungszentrum/dizeisenbahn.de.jsp

Regards Matthias

[railwaxking]

Hello Mathias,
thank you for the interesting links. After some researche i got a idea how to attach the wire to the pole. I found your modell at the 3dwarehous and used it for a render with wire. Thanks for sharing.

Greatings from Mölln, Germany
Martin

[jo-ke]

very nice. I am following this thread with big interest