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First look: New body styles on WalthersMainline HO scale Budd passenger cars
It would be very useful to see photos of both sides of each of the new cars. I’m particularly interested in the other side of the observation car, to see how close it is to those of the New York Central’s Budd-built stainless steel tavern-lounge-observation cars, such as those used on the “Laurentian” into the 1960’s.
The cars are a non-starter for me, as they don’t feature flush mounted windows, but rather just holes with glazing sitting behind. I’m amazed that Walthers offers that kind of detail level in 2015. No amount of add-on grab irons is going to make up for the bad looks of holes for windows.
I would buy these if they had flush windows, but they don’t.
These are just a bad as concor cars, not flush windows, truck mounted couplers, and plastic trucks.