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N SCALE 85 FOOT PASSENGER CAR CORE KITS
Our tooling has been revised and core kits are now available

The kits feature:
-Correctly contoured roof, floor, and detailed ends with separate doors
-The roof/end joint is cleaner than anything currently available
-Our operating diaphragms, trucks, mounting screws and a metal weight
-Accessories including roof vents and stacks, brake reservoirs and valves, water
      tanks, generator, 5 types of battery boxes, and 5 air conditioning systems all of
      which can be easily positioned per the prototype
-Instructions to help recognize and place underframe components on the cars

a few words about trucks / links to car side manufacturers

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Click on the photos to enlarge, and use your browser's back button to return.  The following kits are available now at your dealer:
8010 Core kit - outside swing hanger trucks and accessories, gray $12.95
8015 Core kit - Commonwealth trucks and accessories, gray $12.95
8020 Core kit - outside swing hanger trucks and accessories, black $12.95
8025 Core kit - Commonwealth trucks and accessories, black $12.95
8030 Core kit without trucks in gray $10.95
8040 Core kit without trucks in black $10.95
8050 Roof and underframe accessories only   $3.95
        -Parts to fully detail one car plus plenty of extra parts
8100 Outside swing hanger passenger car trucks, one car   $4.95
8150 Commonwealth passenger car trucks, one car   $4.95
8190 Pennsylvania 2D-P5 trucks, black, one car

$5.95

ABOUT OUR TRUCKS

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     We have available the two most common types of trucks that were used with lightweight streamlined passenger cars.  The outside swing hanger truck, 8100, was classified as a 41-CUDO with 8' 6" wheelbase or a 41-NDO with a 9' 0" wheelbase.  These trucks, equipped with disc brakes, were used almost exclusively on cars manufactured after 1951.  What we are calling the "Commonwealth" truck, 8150, is classified as a 8' 6" or 9' 0" wheelbase 41-N.  There were many variations on this truck manufactured for cars between 1945 and 1951, including several with disc brakes (just clip off the brake shoes and omit the brake cylinder if your prototype has these).
     Our trucks use Intermountain Railways 36" wheels and are designed to use Micro Trains 1023/1025 couplers with an adjustable mount.  Mounting screws for trucks and couplers are included.
     Click the photos below and enlarge them to help identify the trucks on your prototype.

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Also available, #8190, are the Pennsylvania 2D-P5 trucks, one of the PRR's standard trucks used from the 1920's into the 1970's on a variety of equipment:

Coach: P70, P70D, F, K, H, R, FB, B, E, GS, FA, & DR
Baggage: B60, 60A and 60B                   Baggage/Mail: BM60
Cafe Coach: PC70, PC70B                    Lounge/Cafe: PLC70, PLC70A
Observation/Cafe: POC70                      Express Reefer: R50B

Norfolk and Western had an exact copy of the 2D-P5 designated the T-52 which was used on the following equipment:

Baggage/Mail: BMh                                Postal/Mail: M1
Baggage & Express: BEk                        Mail Storage: MS3 (rebuilt as BMh)

 

LINKS TO CAR SIDE MANUFACTURERS
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Here are some links to web sites of manufacturers offering sides to fit our core kits and complete cars that include our core kits:

Smith Models
"American Flyer" style coaches

Centralia Car Shops
Completed cars of many styles and many roads

Brass Car Sides
Brass sides for a wide variety of HO and N scale passenger cars

GHQ
Their first releases will be 2 Hiawatha trains as complete cars with photoetched sides and pewter details

Des Plaines Hobbies
Currently completing a full consist of Chicago and North Western passenger cars as complete cars.
Also look for Shasta Daylight cars and Budd passenger cars.  These are now being sold through Intermountain Railway

Marshall Shops
Their laser cut sides are of Texas and Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Southern Pacific passenger trains

Athabasca Scale Models
Stainless steel sides for Canadian and US passenger cars

NKP Shops
An expanding line of complete cars with photoetched sides

American Model Builders
Laser cut and laser masked sides for Union Pacific and other road's passenger cars

Eastern Seaboard Models Corporation
Complete cars of New Haven prototypes are first for this manufacturer.

Laser Horizons
Pennsylvania Railroad laser cut car sides

Mark Jirousek Custom Passenger Cars
High quality N scale passenger cars built to order, many based on our core kits