A wooden trolley car that runs

[ezdays]

TA-DAAAA, it's as finished as it's going to get. I'm under my estimate, a bit over 18 hours to get it to look like the photo on the box. Lots of parts left over, but they are spares. I did break a few and yes, there were enough spares to cover that.They say I can contact the company and they'll send me replacement parts at no charge which is a good reason for them to provide spares. After everything is in place, I wound the spring up and she ran like she's suppose to. One problem is the conductor is suppose to be the brakeman just that he's suppose to move a lever that will engage a gear and he doesn't move far enough to do that. Doesn't matter, I'm impressed that they got everything else on this model correct. Not a drop of glue needed on any of the parts, and did I mention, it runs???? One thing that makes me wonder, the side writing and all instructions are in English, but the destination boards are in Spanish. This was manufactured in China, so that shouldn't surprise me at all.

Here are a few shots of the finished model, I'm building a floating shelf next to the wooden steam loco, I'll take photos of that when I get that done. In case you're interested in knowing, the backdrop photo is of the red rocks here in Sedona.