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Personally I'd say Walthers make the best passenger cars. Athearn do make some very nice Bombardier bilevel commuter cars, but for scale-length passenger cars Walthers are the best. I have a 5-car set of their Superliners which are superb - I'm in the midst of adding the grab irons and fitting Kadee #58s to them, which does improve them considerably. Their Pullman bilevels are also very good - have a set in CNW livery which looks superb. However, as mentioned above you do have to watch the radius of your curves, as these are full scale-length cars and don't like tight curves. <br /> <br />I would suggest the Athearn regular and streamline cars as being a reasonable alternative if you have tight curves. While these are 72' "shorties" they do look convincing in a train, especially if you add diaphragms and other details. I have one of the "work train" tool cars which went together very nicely and uses Kadee #5s as a drop-in part - I'd suggest swapping to these if you buy the RTR cars as they look and function better than the "E-Z Mate" couplers that are supplied in the box
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