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I agree with antonioFP.... Rivarossi is a good starting point (and this includes the IHC versions in my book) The 1940 series (I believe) are fluted and carried a more detailed underframe and diaphram. Also, their construction was different from the 1930 series so you could modify the carbody skirting as the floor was not a part of the same molding. Concor made nice corrugated 85 foot cars in the 70's and 80's. As with the AHM/Rivarossi, they needed truck modifcations and coupler conversions. Even the Bachman Super domes were not bad if you repainted and detailed. Athearn, with the exception of the baggage cars, were toys because of their less than 85 foot length. My opinion, but then again, I only watch widescreen DVDs. I have over 40 passenger cars and all are either AHM/IHC or Concor (with the exception of several Athearn baggage cars). At present, they are painted and detailed as either ATSF or phase I Amtrak. The latter is doomed as I am slowly converting the AMTK to a freelanced C&O style of Enchantment Blue and yellow. The freelancing aspect even applies to the motive power's being back-dated via paint and details to C&O from CSX. I am convinced that C&O would have had SDP40F's if life had not taken the AMTK fork in the road. But then again, my current medications may be skewing my thought processes.
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