Embedding Rails in the Road: A Streetcar Named Spadina

[@coxsj]

+1 for the title!

[@NScaleDystopia]

I'm proud of the title., 😁

[@1160modelcity]

Wow Cool layout, I love the tram hookup Nice..👍

[@TheOriginalBadger]

Nice job! Looks great!

[@kenshores9900]

Novel ideas.

[@derailroad]

excellent work brother

[@binkman67]

Awesome! Excited to see more progress!

[@normanrowe2831]

Always interesting and informative. Thanks.

[@CGngauge]

Love the improvisation and adapting and making it even better. so cool. :) Craig.

[@tracksidemike]

Awesome Nscale Dystopia great video my friend 🚂👍🏻

[@BriansModelTrains]

Wonderful!

[@sayansaha155]

You are very innovative.

[@trainglen22]

Like the idea of having a streetcar on the bridges between the GO transit yard. Wishing that Kato made it in Ho scale also.

[@stevew7308]

Fantastic!

[@Jeff_Faust]

I, too, have been distracted by a red Kato MyTram. Such a beautiful little thing! I'm building a micro layout for it now.

[@NScaleDystopia]

...it runs sooo well!

[@TheyMakeItLikeThat]

You made the dream a reality! That street car is pretty great. I might need one 😉

[@ragozzinehq]

That streetcar is cute as hell, man. As always, nice job!

[@RetroRoboland]

Really enjoyed this one. Nice work. 👍

[@jerrysmith1929]

Steetcar is a fantastic addition! So exciting to see what can be done with N scale to create a believable urban scene in a small space.

[@jeffdayman8183]

Some great techniques in your video! I enjoyed it. Cheers!

[@NScaleDystopia]

Thank you very much!

[@dvdw_graphics_crafts]

It's a lot of engineering involved!! looking forward to the result!

[@SmithOfGear92]

Union is really coming together now! That moving street car really makes a fantastic scene; I can only imagine how that area will look like when it's scenic'd!! 😄 Now that you have the street car installed, you mentioned that you'd try to automate it. I know you'll find a way to automate it in a way that is functional and seamless!

[@NScaleDystopia]

I'll automate it... I just need to decide how...

[@fodi123]

@@NScaleDystopia I think Jimmy from DIY&Digital had a video about automating a Kato streetcar using an Arduino circuit

[@andrewmasters5020]

Nice. Been dabbling with inset rail for my canal wharf boxfile layout. I've used cardboard (originally Metcalfe tarmac, but will next use Scalescene concrete on my revamp). I agree that Kato chassis are very good, but do have very little clearance underneath.

[@vincenthuying98]

Awesome little side track. Beautiful how you made the streetcar track embed into the road surface. Absolutely think a point to point action for the streetcar suffices. Do remember from my visit to Toronto in ‘91 that those Bathurst and Spadina overpasses are crossing a wide canyon of tracks. Hence a full loop would somewhat distort the illusion you’re creating. Very cool idea to laser scribe the styrene, with which you created the sidewalks. To include the vista of the streetcar on the parallel road to the railroad tracks, will definitely further the illusion of depth on this busy part of your depiction of downtown Toronto. Cheerio

[@NScaleDystopia]

Thanks for the comment. I'm really happy with how this turned out. As I mentioned in the video I hadn't planned on this, but I think it will work for all the points you make.

[@blakrootz]

Beautifully done...

[@h.a.9880]

So much joy watching this project coming together! Adding those streetcar tracks was a very good decision, it makes the whole scene look much more vivid, when there's stuff going on that's not directly part of the rail network&trains.

[@WeltenbauerClub]

Very cool

[@BPCustomCreations]

This is really inspiring! I'm hankering to start my own layout but I don't think I could get away with it without the wife finding out 😂

[@NScaleDystopia]

Build the layout in your panic room... 😉

[@GoViaorgohome]

I love that. Bowser is doing a ttc street car in Ho scale. Might be something I could try out in the future. Thanks for sharing

[@NScaleDystopia]

Thanks man!

[@MMRails]

Coolest thing I’ve seen all month. Maybe year. Although I did see a guy pull off Han Solo AND Princess Leia recently. That was cool too. Great job. Love it.

[@NScaleDystopia]

My recent Star Wars sketches are some of my finest work.

[@mikem.7709]

Impressive work!!! May be it make sense to install N scale Faller car system to make all vehicles on the streets movable?

[@Zitropat]

It's so beautiful, that I'm wondering you'll probably make a walled safe zone isolated from the zombie wasteland. An armored version of that streetcar would be interesting.

[@NScaleDystopia]

Perhaps the upper level is the safe zone with the only travel option being street cars... The lower level is the hot zone where passenger trains are the only equipment that can plow through the hordes of zombies!

[@Zitropat]

@@NScaleDystopiaSounds totally senseful, just some razorwire concertinas to avoid them crawling up the bridges.

[@joaquim8498]

Wow! What an upgrade for your layout!! I love it! Your layout becomes more dinamic and alive with that little train. In the buildings have you think about lights in the different flats that turn on and off in a lapse op time? Will give you more living sensation too. Thanks for share. I Love your project!

[@NScaleDystopia]

I've thought about lighting... but I'm running out of electrical outlets!

[@railwayjade]

This has turned out even better, fantastic! If you are not wanting to build your own, DCConcepts make an auto reversing circuit with timed delay, etc.

[@rdgk1se3019]

You might want to look into using magnets instead of screws for the bridge.

[@coxsj]

Certainly a lot of streetcar moves on those streets. Consider wrapping the streetcar tracks around the front of the layout to form a loop. Put the front part of the streetcar tracks in a box/tube if you dont want it visible. You could then have continuous street car action in both directions and hold the streetcar in the non-visible sections to vary the timing for the streetcar.

[@steve87thpsap]

Great job, sorry about those road ramps, but I am sure you will really make them disappear. That is an awesome Strretcar, too bad they don’t make in HO, we just get old stuff.

[@NScaleDystopia]

They're at the back of the layout... I'll try to ignore them... 😉

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

had to click off when KZbin inserted two unskippable 20s ads in the middle of the video but looks interesting!

[@timothyjohnston4083]

Where did you get your streetcar ?

[@NScaleDystopia]

I ordered it from plaza Japan

[@DylanDurdle]

Wondering where you got those bi-level GO cars from? I can't find any evidence n scale bi-level cars every existed. I have an n scale GO loco from the 90s, would love to get some bi-level cars for it. I know Rapido often releases these cars, but in HO scale. I was able to find Athens or Atlas releases n scale bi-level under different colour schemes. Also, directly related to the street car, Is it modular in the fashion that you could buy two and extend one o them into a longer vehicle, akin to the real TTC units that are longer

[@NScaleDystopia]

Every bit of my go transit equipment is used. I constantly monitor three or four online marketplace platforms looking for equipment. It's not uncommon to find it, but sometimes it's priced way too high. I've been very fortunate that the majority of my equipment was a result of an estate sale and the person that sold it to me was excited that i was going to actually model it and not try to resell it, so I got it for an incredibly low price

[@DylanDurdle]

@@NScaleDystopia Who made it originally (if you can tell from any imprinting on it). My GO train n scale locomotive that I got from a flea market in the 90s actually had no country of origin or manufacturer imprinted anywhere. Makes it more challenging for me to find the best way to maintain it's parts, because I'm just guessing on everything. My other locomotives from the 80s and 90s, they'll say made in west germany, so I can decipher the manufacturer. I have a 80's CP n scale that I don't even recall how I bought it (was a kid then) and I notice it's "made in Slovakia". I've always loved collecting n scale, and I'm starting to get back into actually running tracks. Like you mentioned, I sometimes would encounter someone selling off stuff from an estate sale. I ended up with an amazing n scale coffee table layout this way.

[@NScaleDystopia]

Athearn makes the bilevel cars. They re-released a whole series just last year, but they excluded go transit