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SP Lark (SF to LA)
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You're feeling the frustration of many modelers who would like to create accurate models of passenger trains. We can't because, to date, our manufacturers have thought only in terms of individual cars. They think we'll be satisfied if we can get appropriate types of cars, and won't mind that the prototypes never would have appeared together at one time in any one train. <br /> <br />Rivarossi made state-of-the-art heavyweight cars, but here are the prototypes they gave us: <br /> <br />--a one-of-a-kind Pennsy RPO-storage car (and marketed with the streamlined cars) <br />--a GN baggage-RPO <br />--a B&O baggage car <br />--a Santa Fe baggage-rider car found only on mail & express trains <br />--a Southern coach of unusual design <br />--a Santa Fe diner <br />--a Pullman 12-1 sleeper (best car of the lot, and the most common sleeping car ever) <br />--a Pullman duplex room sleeper (of which only 2 prototype cars were ever built, and were pretty much limited to service on the Pennsy). <br />--a Santa Fe cafe-parlor-observation of unique design. <br /> <br />And here's what we have in the brand-new Walthers streamlined Budd cars: <br /> <br />--a Santa Fe RPO <br />--a Santa Fe baggage car <br />--an NYC baggage-dorm (all of which were retired before the PC merger) <br />--a Santa Fe coach <br />--a Southern coach <br />--an NYC grill-diner <br />--a Pennsy parlor car (misidentified as a "lounge" car, but containing a correct parlor car interior). <br />--an NP slumbercoach <br />--a UP 10-6 sleeper <br />--a Santa Fe 10-6 sleeper <br />--a Seaboard tavern-observation <br /> <br /> With this dog's breakfast you can't even accurately model a rainbow-era Amtrak train.
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