Just FYI, Wheels Of Time just announced a new run of thier busses that includes Kabsas City Public Service Co. As a road name with 4 numbers: http://www.wheelsotime.com/transit-coach/ From the information published, this is out of my 1970s era, but some of you may be modeling an earlier time.... Paul
That is a really cool picture that brings back some fond memories for me. I grew up in Independence, KS and we went to KC when I was growing up and I remember the busses downtown, especially the ones with the trolley poles (not the one modeled). I believe that picture was taken outside of old Municipal Stadium where the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Athletics played. We went to at least one A's game against the New York Yankees and I got to see Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle amongst others.
Brooklyn....along the right field fence line. If you were lucky and the Yankees or the Red Sox were visiting, one of the powerhouse lefties would smack a home run over onto Brooklyn and you'd strain to hear the crash of a window or windshield ! The A's usually lost, but we were just a farm club for New York anyway. Buck
Every once in a while we are lucky enough to get something you HO scale folks don't. There are lots of HO items I wish we coud get in N. Paul
Too bad they didn't do St. Louis Public Service. My grandson would love that. I was lucky to get a G scale PCC Trolley in St.Louis garb. Now that Aristocraft will soon be history, I am REALLY glad! Dan
Not exactly KC Public Service, but Classic Metal Works makes some nice GMC transit buses as well as Trailways highway busses. See M. B. klein: http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/HO-Scale-Buses-s/1954.htm TAG 1014
Bob: Went to the A's at Municipal Stadium, too! In fact one of the A's at the time, Dick Green, shopped at Dad's store. While shopping one day, he stopped and said hi and signed my (long lost) green A's hat of the time. Also remember listening to the A's on the radio in the car while we all (my family) dined on delicious tenderloins from The Tenderloin Grill on SW Blvd. The Tenderloin Grill is still there and serving the same tender sandwich after all these decades!
Right scale, wrong era for me too. But, I will go ahead and get a couple of them, weather them and park them on an empty lot in the West Bottoms or Dodson depicting a couple of scrap buses. I have a streetcar in KCPS paint that will join them. I got to see the Royals play at Municipal Stadium in 1971. They played the Twins, the Royals won and Amos Otis hit a homerun. Dale Rush Carthage, MO
I too remember the electric buses. I was fascinated by the arcing. Tenderloin Grill - my dad's old office was a couple of doors down from it. Back in the day, if one wanted to talk to the owner of a business along SW Blvd, you went there during lunch.
