Use for pullman passenger cars

[CBQ_Guy]

You can also take off the trucks and use them as storage buildings set in the yard, between tracks. There was a black and white picture of the Burlington doing this in an OLD MR. I think it was from the 1960's.

[lupo]

Andy,
take a look at this topic and posts about MOW equipment:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12678

[Anonymous]

An inexpensive track cleaning car to make your MOW truely functional.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to start some of jetrock's suggestions ovver the week end hopefully but I have another quick questsion. To make it a mow what other cars would I add to make it more prototypical?

Andy

[Jetrock]

Indeed--it's not too uncommon to see special excursion cars slapped onto the back of passenger consists.

To convert them to MoW cars, you could either paint them a common MoW color (that light MoW green, or orange, or Pullman green) or leave the old paintjob, weather the heck out of it, add a few dings, scuffs, rust spots and and crudely-attached metal patches, and just paint over the old markings and apply a quick MoW decal and number.

The RPO is probably fine as-is, but the coach might need a few windows to be covered over with plywood (some basswood scrap) or metal (styrene, or just paint the plastic window with aluminum paint and streak rust over it) to represent a tool/work car of some sort.

[Anonymous]

Add HEP connections to them and make them Private cars on the end of an Amtrak Train. I have done that to a number of my cars.

James.

[Anonymous]

I was looking through my excess cars and came across two athearn b&o pullman passenger cars. Ones a coach and the other is a rpo. I like the look of them and really don't want to paint them. The problem is that I model CSX in the early 90's in northeast ohio and they would stick out like a sore thumbs if I ran them in a passenger consist.
I thought about making a excursion train but decided against that. I was wondering what would I have to do to make them into a MOW or a track geomontry car. What cars would I have to add to make them either.
Andy