I am trying to model the SP 4449 and I can’t figure out if it’s passenger cars are corrugated or smooth side. I am trying to model the present day daylight and passenger cars. Does anyone know if the modern ones have smooth sides or corrugated sides?
Thanks for any help you have!
I think they are smooth.
The original 1937 Daylight cars were fluted side cars. The 1939 & 1941 Daylight cars were also fluted side cars. The Shasta Daylight was built with smooth side cars except for the Parlour Observation cars which were 1941 cars.
The present day cars used behind SP 4449 are a mix of cars from various roads that have been painted in Daylight paint. There are some SP cars though. The RPO(Tool & work) is a former Great Northern car from the 1947 Empire Builder. The combine and parlour obs are Daylight cars as are some of the coaches.
In the late 1950’s SP resided the fluted side cars with stainless steel sides making them smooth side cars. The Daylight cars were then stainless steel with a red letterboard and dark grey underbody.
The modern days cars are all repaints of whatever they found available, not like the original cars except for the color. The recent trip to the midwest had so many different cars on it including three of the California Zephyr cars. You might consider getting the BLI cars listed below.
If you want the original cars, BLI has them scheduled to be available in the next 60 days or so. The first complete train will be the 1941 era train with the Southern Pacific Lines lettering and the post war version with the Southern Pacific name and skirts removed will be after the first of the year.
The schedule below is listed on the BLI page, but schedules are not always on time. Knowing how good the Zephyr cars are, I would expect these to be great also.
CZ
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