N Scale 70' baggage cars

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  1. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    Gerry--Don't know if you were able to see this when it was posted the other day: Wheels Of Time now has (Very close to) prototype 70' Frisco baggage cars. They're arch roof cars with Frisco lettering and four different road numbers. They also have some monitor roof baggage cars that could be easily decaled for the Frisco. Both the arch roof and monitor roof baggage cars can be re-detailed and "Frisco-ized" for even more variations (Swapping doors, variations in roof colors etc.).
    Hell Gate Models has a PRR 70' RPO-baggage (BM-70) that could be re-detailed to look like monitor roof Frisco RPO's (#101, 106, 134, 135). The Rivarossi-Atlas-Con-Cor paired window coach fairly represents the 1923 AC&F Frisco 770-775 series cars (The roof of 770 and 771 were slightly different however). If you could fabricate some arch roofs, the Rivarossi cars could represent quite a few more SLSF coaches. Also Micro-Trains is supposedly going to release a monitor/clerestory roof, paired-window coach. These few cars would give you a nice "Pike-Size" Frisco Sunnyland or Firefly of the ca. 1959 period:
    --E-8
    --Baggage
    --RPO-baggage
    --Coach
    --Buffet (Another Rivarossi coach)

    Tom
     
  2. Overland

    Overland Member

    Thanks for the info Tom. I have also now seen an article in N Scale Modelling describing passenger cars adapted to Frisco prototypes. I have no excuse now ;O)))

    Gerry
     
  3. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    "N Scale Modeling"? A magazine or website? I'd like to see that.

    Tom
     
  4. Overland

    Overland Member

    Apologies Tom, it was very late here in the UK! (It's 07.20 am now...)

    I meant N Scale Railroading Magazine, Mar/Apr 2002. The train was the KC-Florida Special and the article was by John Wegner. He utilised Bachmann,Rivarossi and ConCor cars.

    Gerry
     
  5. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    Oh yeah that was a good article! I've heard John Wegner and some buddies are modeling the Kansas City Union Station and all the trains that ran through there! He had a Rock Island Twin Star Rocket project in the the old Hundman N Scale magazine.

    Tom
     

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