Rebuilt Heavyweight Baloon Roof

Bo showing type passenger car.

Rebuilt heavyweight baloon roof.

It is easy to sand and shape and looks like it will make a nice looking roof. For example the b o streamlined a lot of heavyweight cars for their name trains by adding what they called a turtle roof and some skirting at the bottom. These fully assembled ho scale cars feature scale dimensions and rivet details factory installed side door handrails full detailed interiors complete end underbody and roof. This heavyweight business car with balloon roof is painted in the blue and grey scheme and runs on 6 wheel passenger trucks.

Emerald falls emerald brook. We ve created a balloon roof casting for passenger cars that is made of resin. Identifying features of this car include a balloon roof and windows with rounded corners. Later in their service lives some were rebuilt with 13 6 round roofs.

Fill out your heavyweight consists with paired window coaches based on a baltimore ohio prototype pullman plan 2882 b this car is typical of coaches rebuilt by many roads for all types of service during the 1930s. Heavyweight 8 4 sleeper plan 4022d. I was looking at doing this to one of mth s prr rpos because one issue of this car was very close to pennsy s except for the clerestory roof. Nc stl rebuilt old parlor cars into hw coaches and then rebuilt them again into the city of memphis visually a steamlined train with 6 wheel trucks except it has a heavyweight underframe and 6 wheel trucks.

This car is typical of coaches rebuilt with air conditioning and sealed windows. B o 3550 b o 3557. Part i was the april 1989 model railroader while part ii followed in may 1989. Named after silver spring maryland this baltimore ohio heavyweight business car served on numerous east coast trains through the early 1970s.

Click on a item to view pictures. There are some steamlined heavyweight roof shapes other than the arch or balloon shape that comes down to the original car body height at the ends. Loch doon loch earn. B60 s had a shallow roof curvature that comes close to that of lightweight streamlined passenger cars.

Heavyweight 10 1 2 sleeper plan 3585h. B o 1302 b o 1305. Rebuilt cars retained their b60 classification. Ggd sold stand alone round roofs to modernize their p70 model with the clerestory roof.

B o 1077 b o 1080. Modified heavyweight 54 seat chair. However it looks like you want to modify the current roof of your project car. Heavyweight baggage dorm lounge.

B60b baggage cars were a later design and built new with 14 1 2 round roofs. 2140 national limited rebuilt heavyweight 8 car set 1940 s. Fyi i stumbled across the article on kitbashing heavyweight pullmans by bill darnaby. Acl rebuilt coaches with new sides roofs wrapped over the old clerestory ie 14 tall and flat ends with full width diaphragms.