I first saw the new Weaver B60’s at York and finally had to spring for one. Looks right at home behind the T-1:
Fast forward nearly 50 years…This Amtrak mail car by MTH actually rides on the “tail end” which is common on Amtrak:
Jasper, I have seen those Amtrak Mail cars in the front and the rear as they cross Northern Ohio. I heard several years ago, that passengers complained more about a rough ride when the cars were in the rear, but have never been able to substantiate the rumor.
The Weaver car is a great model behind your T-1.
I’m sure it has more to do with how soon and where the box cars will get dropped off. When I rode the California Zephyr from Chicago to Sacramento the 2nd half of the train was Amtrak freight & mail. One of the baggage cars on that trip looked like it belonged in a museum - I can’t swear from memory that it was a B60, but it was something from a similar era.
I bought an undecorated Weaver B60 and a friend is decorating it for me for St. Louis Southwestern in Pullman Green. I plan to use it with two Lionel NYC Pullman heavyweights and a Williams REA express refrigerator to simulate the passenger train that ran through my hometown in northwest Louisiana in the 1950s. It will be pulled by a Lionel (w Williams power) GP-7 painted in Daylight colors - the only one the Cotton Belt had and it ran through my hometown between Lewisville, AR and Shreveport. The actual train usually consisted of the GP-7 (earlier a 4-4-2), a baggage car, a coach and a Pullman/observation car - but this is a lower cost version!
Those B60s by Weaver are very nice. And now they have the clerestory version available now. Wish I had waited for that one.