Brill Restored!

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

http://hampton.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2625

Don't know how accurate the data is on the type of car, but take a look.

[De Bruin]

Does one good to see old cars restored, especially when a town gets behind it. Kills me how devoid the web site and its links are on the car relative to the company it ran on, and the details you seek though etc.
is this too hard for them to research?
Dave's Railpix bingo
http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/va/htm/norf02.htm - same type car same rd# sequence compared to the crappy snip-bit photo on the project site
and if no joy then then you can hit the stacks,
this one of what I think is the actual car from the James P Shuman collection in MS's SO States Trolley's in color

So yeah VPS, Brill class of 1918
Kudo's to Hampton VA, wish Atlanta was as like minded.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Cool!

Buckroe Beach is a beach in Hampton, I can imagine the trolley taking sunbathers to the beach on a summer day

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice.

Something to visit next time I'm down that way.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Not familiar with cars of this type still all, any commercial models/kits of them available?

Did these travel on tracks separate from the regular RR lines or did they share trackage?

I know Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach also had trolleys, but have found very little about them or what type of cars they used.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not familiar with cars of this type still all, any commercial models/kits of them available?

I think that Copetown or Ashland made kits that might serve; white metal and the details & drives not included.

Did these travel on tracks separate from the regular RR lines or did they share trackage?

Generally separate.

I know Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach also had trolleys, but have found very little about them or what type of cars they used.

Think there's may be a book on the VA Beach line......

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Thanks Doc! I think I have a book on Portsmouth that shows one of the trolleys, need to dig it out.

[Nortonville Phil]

Bob,

Here is a little more info on this car. http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40967&sid=c70d0562fc072e5cbda11b70ae6e68a7

I have been following this group for a while now. My interest comes from the fact that I was stationed at FT. Eustis for a while and I am in to all things traction.

There is also a a Hampton streetcar 390 Facebook page.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Thanks Phil, good information.

I wonder at what point a restoration becomes a model-of, >50%???