Did PRR ever have ANY ?? Info appreciated!
ndbprr Nope, never, nada, nein! PC may have had some from the NYC side but the PRR never owned bay window or ACF extended vision cabin cars (not caboose in PRR vocabulary).
Nope, never, nada, nein! PC may have had some from the NYC side but the PRR never owned bay window or ACF extended vision cabin cars (not caboose in PRR vocabulary).
As a proud sustaining member of the Penn Central Historical Society, I can proudly confirm that the PC did indeed have ex-NYC bay-window cabeese, but I've never seen nor heard of any from the PRR fleet.
Never did PRR have a bay window cabin car! But you should see the neat things they did have in both wood and steel!
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Bowser makes PRR cabin cars in both N5b (rectangular windows) and N5c (porthole windows). Walthers makes a pricey pretty good N6b wood sided cabin car which was the predominant cabin car in the 50's.
ndbprr Bowser makes PRR cabin cars in both N5b (rectangular windows) and N5c (porthole windows). Walthers makes a pricey pretty good N6b wood sided cabin car which was the predominant cabin car in the 50's.
I did an N scale Bowser N5C in the Penn Central livery and it turned-out great (love the PC green). In fact it was originally in the PRR Tuscan paint which I stripped.
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Actually, the PRR *did* have bay window cabin cars; they just weren't like the ones owned by SP, NYC, or other railroads. Pennsy's bay window cabins were classed as NX-23, and were rebuilt from X-23 outside-braced boxcars during WW2. A photo of one can be found on pg. 104 of PRR Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Sweetland and Yanosey.
Yes, you're right....I missed them because I believe they were used and dubbed "transfer platform" or something to that effect.
I considered that in my answer but they were nothing like the standard bay window caboose and saying yes would have given the wrong impression. They were war shortage conversions and were pretty rare and ugly.
CShaveRR My daughter has an N-scale brass model of a wood-sided PRR Cabin Car. She's not a modeler--so why does she have it? That little car was pulled along behind the train on her wedding gown, as a tribute to her dad.
That's sweet, Carl !
Thanks much for posting that little story . . . because my daughter is getting married this Saturday !
So you know what' I'm going to be asking her this afternoon, and then maybe trying to scrounge up in the next 2 days . . . maybe now I'll have something tangible to contribute to the celebration (besides her, of course). She's wearing her mother's wedding gown, so that wouldn't be completely out of place - at least that's how I think. I know I have 3 or 4 HO scale cabeese, and maybe a Z-scale, but they're all plastic . . . But 'brass would definitely have more class''. We'll see . . . thanks again !
- Paul North.
Don't have to worry about adding anything "railroady" to the wedding, the bride's gown already has a train! Ah, guys, when you put me on the track, don't "tie" the knots too tight, it might hurt.
I've seen some brides that a marker light on each hip would have been totaly appropriate
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