Dear Larry:
As usual I am a week or two behind.
I have the AM 80 foot cars. They are nice smoothsides without side ribs.
For Union Pacific this makes a postwar, #1 streamliner. (Not a train with
'hand-me-down' equipment.)
I looked at the Schreiner cars because my AM train needed a diner.
I discovered the Schreiner cars are magnificent representatives of UP's
prewar streamliners. (If you have heard of the unsolved derailment
involving the City of Los Angeles this equipment was involved.) The prewar
cars had two ribs, one high and one low.
Separately they look great but I don't feel the two can be mixed and
still get a good looking train.
The Schreiners do have one big advantage. Unaltered they will go around
American Flyer curves. The AMs will do 27 but they are not happy.
I did get my diner. Because I asked, Laser Horizons now has a UP diner. I
have an unpainted AM smoothside coach I will cut these into and then I just
need to paint it.
Thorin
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:50:27 -0600
From: "Larry Langford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Schreiner Passenger Cars
I have not noticed any mention of the Schreiner passenger cars available
from Scenery Unlimited in 65' and 80' versions. Has anyone detailed/built
any of these cars? Opinion. Any known prototype?
Larry Langford
518 Parker Street
Gibson, TN 38338-0099
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