Darrell, I'm not really into stuff that old, but Kinsman brought out a
line of wooden truss rod passenger cars that I believe could be
constructed with open vestibules. S scenery sells a version of the
kits, but I don't know if you can build the open version or not. The
original Kinsman cars were very good kits. Occasionally someone will
offer them on ebay. I have a set of closed vestibule cars that were
built by a gentlemen by the name of Ron Koch. They won best of show at
some convention years back.
As far as motive power goes, with a little hunting you can probably
rustle up a Kemtron 4-6-0 engine or kit that would suffice as 'turn of
the century' power. I believe I saw the tender on ebay just last week.
As I recall the engine was sort of 0n3 but with a little work makes
into a very believable engine. Another engine that could work was one
built by Barney Dahler (hope I spelled that right). It was a Sierra
2-8-0, that would work as a stand-in, but maybe a few years to new for you.
Bob Werre
Darrell Smith wrote:
>With all this talk about passenger cars, I haven't heard a single
>mention of the old open-vestibule cars. Yes, I know they are
>"available" from American Flyer in the Franklin or Frontiersman sets,
>but those cars are actually closer to On3 scale. I also have one and
>intend to get more as finances allow, but they will be seriously
>hacked up to bring them to scale size, and the solid roof is a major
>minus point. I will also be doing the same with some Bachmann On30
>
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