Product Description
Features:
- Spring lever drivetrain: The propulsion comes from a wound spring inside the chassis, released through a lever on the side. One full wind delivers around twelve runs across a flat surface before it needs rewinding. The energy transfer is direct and visible through the open underside — gears engaging, spring unwinding, wheels turning. Watching it run shows exactly how mechanical storage worked before electric traction took over city streets.
- Working brake control: A second lever operates the brake, letting you stop the tram mid-run or hold it in place while the spring stays wound. It's a small detail, but it changes how the model behaves — you're not just watching it roll, you're controlling it. The linkage between lever and wheel is the part that makes it feel like a real machine, not a static replica that happens to move.
- 19th century bodywork: The body panels, window frames, roof curve, and platform railings rebuild the proportions of a classic horse-drawn-era streetcar in laser-cut wood. Assembly runs from chassis up through the drivetrain, then the cabin shell, then the roof and trim. Each layer locks the previous one in place, so by the time the roof goes on the structure is rigid enough to handle being pushed, wound, and rolled without flexing.
- Display or run modes: Finished, the tram works two ways. Wound and released, it travels across a desk or table under its own power. Left alone, it sits as a vintage transportation piece — the kind of model that reads as decoration from across the room and reveals itself as a working mechanism up close. The dual mode is what makes it earn its shelf space long after the build is done.
- Number of Pieces: 374
- Assembly Time: 5 Hours
- Assembled size: 11.3*6.5*9.7"(28.7*16.5*24.7cm)
Includes:
- (1) 3D Wooden Puzzle, Classic City Tram