Baggage-Mail Cars                               Combine Cars     

Coach Cars                           

                  Solarium (Sun Room) Cars. Note large windows at Rear of Car  

      All railroads had some cars in its passenger fleet that were used in local or branchline service. Often these were older cars that had spent the prime of their life on the mainline "name train" inter-city service. Some railroads like the C&NW, Southern Pacific, Pennsylvania, and Canadian Pacific had hundreds of cars in their commuter fleets.

      No two railroads used exactly the same designs for their cars, and the lengths of the cars varied as well. Also many cars were sold off as "hand me downs" to smaller roads to be used on mixed train branchline service. So these cars could be at home on any prototype railroad, large or small.

      We chose to model them as 65 Ft long cars, so they would run on 18 inch radius curves of the average home layout. The time era for these cars stretched from the 1920's to well into the late 1950's.

FEATURES

- Super detailed trucks.

     Above left is the Baggage-Mail car lettered for Santa Fe. The baggage compartments were also often used for REA express shipments.

     Above Right is a Combine Car, here seen lettered for CB&Q, were common on branchline, milk-run, mail, mixed, and through trains. The baggage compartments were also used for less-than-car-load shipments.

     Our new Coach car is shown above in the Milwaukee "Hiawatha" Paint Scheme. Coaches (or Chair cars as they were known on some lines) were found on commuter, suburban, local, mail, milk-run, mixed, inter-city, in fact just about all passenger trains but the most exclusive Limiteds!

     Solarium cars, shown here in the Pulman Company paint scheme, have been rarely modeled, and yet they were a very popular car during the heavyweight era. On some roads they were called "Solariums" and on other railroads "Sun Room" cars, but all had the same features... Tall windows in the parlour area at the rear of the cars to bring in sunlight. The Pullman company built untold numbers of them between 1928 and 1931. Most went into "Pullman" pool service, meaning they ran with the Pullman name on them and with Pullman employees on board. Because they were Pullman owned cars, and only leased to the various railroads they often do not shown up on rosters of specific railroads, but yet, here they were running at the end of many of the most famous heavyweight passenger trains. Many were built for specific railroads, so for example you can find photos of them in books on the Burlington, Great Northern, Canadian Pacific just to name a few. Many changed hands over the years. For instance, the four Solairum cars on the Burlington, were later sold to the Pennsylvania. Solariums were also used to provide first class service to coach passengers on shorter inter-city runs.

     The same fantastic car lighting system used on our HO mP54 series of cars will also come built into this new series of B.C.S. series cars...

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'"HO" Con-Cor "Ready to Run" Heavyweight Coach Cars for B-C-S Service on your railroad
All Coaches available in 2 Car numbers. Box ends will be marked (01) or (02) behind the Stock number to denote which Coach Number.

'"HO" Con-Cor "Ready to Run" Heavyweight Baggage-Mail Cars for B-C-S Service on your railroad.
All Baggage-Mail cars available only with one Car Number on the first run. Box ends will be marked (01) behind the Stock number.

'"HO" Con-Cor "Ready to Run" Heavyweight Combine Cars for B-C-S Service on your railroad.
All Combinecars available only with one Car Number on the first run. Box ends will be marked (01) behind the Stock number.

'"HO" Con-Cor "Ready to Run" Heavyweight Solarium (Sun Room) Car for B-C-S Service on your railroad.
All Solaium cars available only with one Car Number on the first run. Box ends will be marked (01) behind the Stock number.** Retail price "T-B-A" (To Be Announced) once all final costs are known.