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Need pics for old time passanger coach
Posted by rs2mike on Friday, September 25, 2009 2:00 PM

 I am building a set of overton passanger coaches from roundhouse models.  I have the basic paint scheme but i am wondering about trim.  Would the car be all one color or would there be trim work painted a different color?  Also would the window frames be trimmed in the trim color or left to the base color?

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Mike

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Posted by TomDiehl on Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:48 AM

That would depend on the railroad and the era. When new, they may have been painted multi colors, and later in life, painted a single color on the same railroad. Or painted a single color, and later a different color on the same railroad.

PS: You may want to post this on the MODEL Railroader side of the forums. This section is for the full size trains.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Saturday, September 26, 2009 4:55 PM

Mike: As tom said you might be better off posting this request on one of the Model Railroader Forums:

No sure what an Overton Passenger Car is, but here is a link to a resource that might be of help to you:

http://www.trainweb.org/passengercars/Indices/A13.htm

Hope you can find what you are looking for.

 

 


 

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Posted by richg1998 on Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:55 PM

 Remember, only two cars like that were ever made for the Sierra railroad and they were not called Overton.

Below is a link that might give you an idea.

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24429

Search the 'Net for sierra railroad angels camp cars

The term Overton was coined by MDC/Roundhouse quite a few years ago. There was a discussion about these cars in the Prototype information for the modeler forum.

The Yahoo Early Rail Group might have some information.

Rich

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Posted by rs2mike on Monday, September 28, 2009 9:09 AM
Thanks for the link to the picks of passanger cars. I found 2 in the list that looks like the MDC version. Here is the link to the cars. http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/sfe2.jpg and http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/sfe3.jpg. The first one is closer in looks with the tool? box under the car. I tried posting on the model page a few months back but got no replys so I figured I would hop over to the real trains guys and see what you guys would come up with. Thanks Mike

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