American Limited has a good selection of diaphragms. Almost certain the F unit ones are not as tall as a passenger car type.
http://www.americanlimitedmodels.com/
Regards, Ed
The International was a train from Seattle to Vancouver BC. It was a newly built (in 1950) streamline train:
Baggage-mail, 60 seat coach, 6 seat coach, 52 seat chair-cafe-parlor-observation
The above photo shows one more car.
There was also a train from Seattle to Portland (GN 459-460).
This page could be useful. It lists equipment in 1954:
There are also trains of other railroads listed for the Seattle-Portland run.
Ed
WOW! Thanks for all the info! Much appreciated. So, the International had 4 cars? Also, I am noticing that these trains have locomotives with numbers not too close to 370, and Athearn sells a train set with GN 370 a and b, but the cars are earlier than these. Should I renumber the locos I have or did GN 370 pull these cars shown in above posts as well? Thanks again for all the help, everybody!
The 500 series on the GN were E7’s. Yours are F’s. They’re not the same. I wouldn’t worry about it much. If the E was down, I’m sure GN would have stuck an AB on the front.
Also, I know the Seattle-Portland train ran, at least some of the time, AB’s. Like the 370 pair.
Ed
The engine’s diaphragms were so the crew could go from one unit to other, like from an A unit back to a B unit (or trailing A unit). AFAIK they weren’t designed to mate up with the diapgragms used in passenger cars, that allowed people to move from car to car. If the conductor had to talk to the engineer ‘face to face’, he’d have to wait until the train stopped somewhere, get out and walk along the tracks up to the engine. BTW the original 1940’s streamlined Builder used full-width diaphragms.
Re horns, from what I can see all GN F’s came with single chime BLAT airhorns but at some point at least some of the passenger F’s were changed to three chimes. Not sure of the exact type.