BPL Brass in Wisconsin has several of the Overland Models UP Passenger cars in stock, several sleepers, business car Selma and one dome diner. The Dome diner and car Selma will set you back 500.00 plus each but, the sleepers will set you back 400.00 plus but, they are worth it. Nice thing is BPL will let you do layaway on the models.
surely someone out there has the entire brass set by OMI they are willing to part with. I would buy them all but I’m not patient enough to wait and find each car over a long period of time.
Well, I’m going to bite my toungue off here I suspect, but I really think that’s excessive considering the effort you put into getting the Rivarossis. But then, I’m an overly adamant supporter of both the “Good enough” and “12 inch test”. Also, There is now a strong possibility that Walthers will be putting out soem UP City cars, that I suspect made it into Exec. service, and could supplement a lot of the brass costs. A $50 car is much cheaper than a 500. And I stll think you can make the theatre car yourself for les than the cost, but the brass car is nice.
no dont bite your tounge you have a good point. I just suck at putting things together and I would need detailed step by step instructions to make a theatre car.
And admittedly, the theatre car is unique enough, the brass would be pretty cool. On the other hand, it might prove to be a fun, simple project that we could even walk you through on this end. The nice thing about Walthers cars is that the walls have simple snap tabs that can be unhooked, and re-attahced to another car. Either way, your gonna end up with a cool train with the theatre added in.
If you don’t mind bringing out the wood glue and sandpaper, Ambroid made the UP Postal Storage Car (H-5) which I believe is the tool car in today’s train.
The crew car (Cabarton - not Ca_r_barton) is available from Walthers, it’s their 10-6 Budd built sleeper from the Pacific series.
Finding the set was half of the enjoyable battle. Are you serious about the whole set. Including the postal car and steam car and tooling car & including the head FEF3 ($2,100.00 +) end unit you are looking at $12,000.00+ for the whole 21 car train including all the observations. The odds of someone wanting to part out the whole train is slim. They are to hard to get. Meaning watching Ebay, bidding, then waiting for the other cars to appear is a headache. BUT for around $17,000.00 I will give you the whole thing, all boxes, all receipts, all pictures, all cases, all stands. + throw in the 4-6-6-4 OMI Challenger with the 2 tenders that goes with the set. Both head end units are in the pictures. I can say it’s the nicest detailed passenger set you will ever see. I DO NOT want to part with it, that’s why my price is about $1,000.00 more then I really paid for everything.
I do have the Diamond Series Union Pacific Challenger 3985 from OMI. It’s a beautiful model. I don’t have the DS (Diamond Series) 844. My twin brother has the DS 844. I have the Athearn Genesis version of the 844. I do have a OMI FEF-3 painted in two-tone gray with the yellow stripe.
I try not to think about how much I have spent on trains. When I was buying the omi engines and cars I was out of college and living at home so I had the money to spend.
Is your DS 844 able to pull all 17 cars? Do you have a large collection of OMI trains?
I am sure very few people have the entire set of OMI Union Pacific excursion cars. I believe they imported around 40-45 cars. Around 2005-2006 OMI cancelled production of a few of the cars. Union Pacific has also added to their heritage fleet since then. To get the entire set OMI did import it would cost more than $20,000.
Finding the cars was very enjoyable. Search all the brass dealers on the web. Once you find the first car your collecion will grow pretty quick.
Whats funny is the FEF3 will pull all of the cars including the TOOL, STEAM & POSTAL cars but the Challenger WILL NOT. In fact the Challenger will only pull 13 of them. I have to run a OMI DD35 behine the Challenger & a UP SD60 or a UP GP24 behind the FEF just for looks. I wanted the FEF3 Diamond Series engine in black, but the only one they had was the 2 toine gray with the yellow strips. Did you have any trouble with your Challenger running around curves??? I do not have a HUGE collection of OMI brass. I do have a good amount of OMI Turbines. I have several of the Coal, Veranda & Big Blows. I am not into the OMI brass cars or modern diesels.
I was hoping you had pictures of each individual car or something you had already taken. I mean for 17k I would need to see something before sending that sort of cash your way.
Do you want me to send YOU the pics or post them here? If you want them here it’s will take a little bit. And people with slow internets will take a little bit to open up this topic because of the many pics.
You are correct about the FEF3 being a better runner than the Challenger. I have had problems with the 3985 on curves. I have used the OMI excursion E9’s behind the FEF3 and Challenger for added pulling power. Do you have the latest OMI run of the big blow turbine? My father purchased one and it can barely pull itself. For the price you pay for it, the running quality of it was a huge disapointment. We asked Brian Marsh about it and got no real response about it. I only own a few omi diesels but I won’t buy anymore after the turbine.
Looking at your list of OMI UP excursion cars I see you don’t have the City of Salina coach. That car has got to be one of the hardest to find. I have only seen it for sale maybe 3-4 times in 8 years
You have to remember, a whole set of brass cars would be a HAUL for any steamer. I was lucky enough to aquire the City of San Fransico by Overland for only $350 (I am a business car nut) and it is HEAVY! Amazing car inside and out, but boy she weighs like the Milw Cedar Rapids in real life!
I thought I’d update you guys on the box car. A guy by the name of Mark Preussler painted a box car for me to match my 844 set and reflect the real one. Here are the pics: