Hi
If you have a Some Classic Trains book and look on page 273 you will
see a CB&Q 12-1 and it shows the deviders as the Walthers car is
done, I do like the Branchline though it does not seem to have that
detail. The Branchline does alow you to customize the underbody more
easily.
Bill Glick
408-292-0215
- I-n CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "nycbqfan" <jsauer@e...> 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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