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Suggestions for HO (and maybe N) scale: Pre-WWII modernized PRR P-70 clerestory and round-roof coaches with air conditioning. By the early 1940s, most PRR mainline trains had air-conditioned coaches. PRR P54 coaches and PB54 combines, as well as MU versions, in their pre-aWWII configurations. NYNH&H and LV AF-style coaches in original and added-window configurations. 50' WWII troop sleepers with step wells and stirrup steps, and companion kitchen cars. (Hopefully, Intermountain will produce these soon.) PRR B-60 baggage and Railway Express cars, with appropriate roof detail and sliding side doors. Common versions of prewar lightweight coaches and Pullmans by P-S, ACF (?), and Budd; detachable skirts. Preferably, all new passenger cars would be RTR and include interior partitions/detail. At least cars should be partly asembled with floor and sides, and a detached roof. Clever coupler, diaphragm, and step designs for closely spaced cars should negotiate 24" radius curves. One truck should pivot on superelevated curves. Passenger cars should include several kinds of interior lighting: early evening, late evening (with lit aisles, vestibules, and bathrooms), and dark (for mid-train dead-heading). Ideally, cars would come with marker lights that could be turned on and lit drumheads could be added easily to rear Pullman or observation cars. To go with new passenger cars, I'd also encourage a diversity of passengers in various seated/reclining and standing poses, as well as baggagemen, RPO clerks, conductors and trainmen, and dining car and Pullman car staff. These should be available in various fashions, perhaps in 5-year increments (e.g. 1940-45), and perhaps different seasonal dress. Unpainted single and paired figures with seats in bulk packages could help to keep the costs down. Vintage luggage with overhead racks would be a nice touch, too. (Vintage suitcases, trunks, mail sacks, and other loads for baggage wagons and Redcap baggage hand-carts would help detail station platforms and curbsides.) Glass for windows and doors should be set in from car sides by scale depth, not behind thick plastic sides. Non-airconditioned cars should have (some) windows and vestibule doors that could be easily modeled in the open position.
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