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Your choice for passenger cars for 18" radius curves are Athearn, MDC, Mantua, short Rivarossi and the short Walthers are your current choices. Styles include Streamline(1950-1970), Heavyweight(1920-1950), Harriman (1910 -1925), Overton (1880+ - 1910). Times are approximate but can always survive for branch-line and tourist rails. Some of these have been shortened for the tighter curves with the real ones being 80 - 85 feet. Lots of stuff like seats,diaphragms, and doors available from multiple sources to make any of these appear more complete. As suggested above, replace the wheelsets with something decent (P2K, IM, Rexx or similiar) and in many cases replace the couplers, I prefer KD but folks have had good luck with others. I'm tarting up a few myself as my available space limits me to 18" radius. I'll go to more realistic car lengths when circumstances change to allow greater radii.
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