Dear Earl,
The SP leased many of these cars during WWII, I have the images with
palm trees in the backround.
Don
PS Lots of railroads had shorter coaches for commuter service.
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>Well I think all of you are correct.
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>I also think of the cars as being shorties, even though I know they are based
>on an actual prototype. Reason is that the cars are short for most if not
>all the railroads they are painted for, except Central of New Jersey or maybe
>even for one or two railroads. So they cars may look just right for Central
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>New Jersey but look funny for Southern (my primary railroad), UP (oops is
>this is bad word now), SP, and most of the other major railroads in the
>country.
>They also look funny on those other railroads because of the four wheel
>trucks. But I converted my southern coaches to six wheel trucks and they look
>really great. I would like to have coaches the same length as the Pullmans
>but I
>am thankful to have the ones I have. At one time I did not expect to ever
>have heavyweight cars in S that look that good.
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> - Earl Henry, Nashville
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