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The initial consist of the Hiawatha train innaugurated in May 1935 was: a Tap-Cafe car; 3 coaches; a parlor car; and a Beavertail parlor observation car. By August 1935 the consist was expanded to 8 cars, with the addition of 2 coaches. The two best books on the trains are "The Hiawatha Story", by Jim Scribbins, and "Hiawahta: First of the Speedliners", by Milwaukee Shops, Inc. The latter book has HO scale drawings of all of the cars, as well as full-color renditions. Both books are out of print, and command premium prices on the used-book market. Models of all of the cars have been done in brass by Nickle Plate Products and by Overland in HO, and by Overland in O scale. They have never been done in plastic. (Note that the parlor cars are identical to the coaches on the outside--indeed the straight parlors were rebuilt from coaches on the prototype.) It wouldn't be out of the question to scratchbuild the cars in wood and brass and/or styrene--in fact one of the nicest models of the 1935 Hiawatha I have seen was scratchbuilt from these materials. John
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