John & Listees:
Page 31 of "The Sleeping Car - A General Guide" recently published in
soft-cover by the ACL/SAL Historical Society and written by Ted Shrady,
gives the whole story. With the weary disclaimer that I get not a nickel
in referral fees, this fact and color photo filled book is good value
for money. The answer is, of course, ambiguous, and you need specific
car name and date for an accurate answer.
Jim Warsher
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nycbqfan wrote:
> Loren:
>
> I just picked up one of the Branchline 12-1 sleepers (the Ready to
> Run version). It is a nice model. I have one question. A friend
> has the new Walthers 12-1 Pullman, and its interior seems to have
> bulkheads or walls between each set of seats that go all the way to
> the ceiling. From some of the prototype photos it seems that is
> correct. The Branchline interior does not have this. Do you know
> which is correct? Not a big deal, and I could add the bulkhead
> walls fairly easily, but since the Branchline car is so accurate, I
> am curious whether the Walthers interior is wrong or the Branchline
> is.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John Sauer
>
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Aeolus3@a... wrote:
> > I picked up the first 3 pack of Branchline RTR 21-1 Pullmans the
> other day at
> > Al's in Elmhurst. I found them to be as expected really fine
> detailed HW
> > Pullmans. Great paint, windows, ect. AND the roll very well
> indeed. The one minor
> > problem is in the coupler swing. At the rear of the coupler
> pockets there's a
> > plastic strip on each side to center the coupler pocket. This
> doesn't allow
> > for enough free swing of the coupler pocket, I just removed the
> trucks and cut
> > the strips off.
> >
> > For those of you wishing to run these fine models on your layout
> with shorter
> > curves you will have to do this for the car to run well. I had
> trouble on the
> > club layout with 48" curves. For the first time we have a plastic
> Pullman car
> > that matches most brass models at a fraction of the cost. Hat's
> off to
> > Branchline!
> >
> > Loren Johnson
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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