A couple of photos in the SP Passenger car book on sleepers....
At 05:00 PM 12/17/2008, you wrote:
>When I built my two Branchline coaches I had to file down the partitions
>just a little bit and then the roof snapped in place. Mine were from
>the first
>run though. I've noticed on some of the later cars kits I've bought
>the roofs
>seem to have a very slight wrap in them. Although I haven't built them as
>yet, I went over the kits.
>
>Thanks for the information on the American Models Laser Kit part, I will
>look into getting it.
>
>Another thing of interest in the passenger models coming out from Walthers.
>Well not exactly a Burlington car but Walthers is doing two of the "through"
>streamlined Pullman cars. 10-5 Cascade series painted in Mo Pak Eagle and a
>10-5 painted in Frisco but with PRR lettering for the through
>Pullman Service.
>While neither car is a 10-6, they could be used in a consist of the CZ to
>"break up" for the through NYC-SF Pullman. These two cars fit right with
>(turning my head here) but they fit right in with my Penn Texas
>train, which all
>started with modeling the Pennsylvania Limited to get that through
>CZ Pullman to
> and from NYC.
>
>I do have another question, this is about the North Coast Limited. The NP
>owned 2 Pullman Standard 10-6's that were bought for the pool
>passenger train on
> the west coast. In the late 1960's I'm thinking 1966, the Pullman
> cars were
>dropped from service on that train. These cars first were painted in the two
>tone Gray SP "Lark" and then later were painted in the silver with the red
>letter board strip. Upon Pullman service being dropped from the train, the
>10-6's were shopped and repainted in the two tone green NP paint.
>Then they were
>used in the NCL. Does anyone have a photograph of the car? The only photo I
>have of the car is at poor angle.
>
>Loren Johnson
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