The first photo below is listed on eBay as follows:
HO WALTHERS UNION PACIFIC PULLMAN STANDARD 48 SEAT DINER UP RTR - 932-6831
But, it doesn’t look like a diner to me.
The second photo below is the Walthers diner as listed on their web site.
Any idea what that car is in the eBay ad?
Rich
I have a quarter like that. It has George Washington on one side, and some state thing on the other side.
Well, they do not put windows where the stove is. Railroads did many different things with their cars, renovations and such over the years, so one would indeed expect the car to morph over its lifetime, but this is a model, and manufacturers do not morph their tooling nearly as often.
Probably tow different sides of the same car, but it is possible, what with all of the manufacturing changes in China that new tools were made.
One never knows. If you like the model, run it, if you do not like it, then do not buy it.
ROAR
They are both diners. The top picture is of the kitchen side and the bottom the aisle side. The doors in the sides are where they load food into the car.
They look like the same car to me… just different sides.
The Walthers photo shows the corridor past the kitchen while the E-bay photo shows the kitchen side with a door near the end of the car and a single window at the dining room end of the kitchen.
The Walthers photo shows grey trucks while the E-bay photo shows silver trucks. I believe the silver trucks indicates a later time period.
M636C
LION, that may, indeed, be the answer. I hadn’t even considered that, but I recall that same situation with another passenger car that I purchased some time ago. I forget about that difference from one side of the car to the other. Thanks for that.
My main concern was that I thought the eBay seller may have confused situation by posting the wrong photo or picked the wrong car for sale.
Rich
Dave, thanks for that info. At one time, I thought, unknowingly, that both sides of a passenger car were identical. I recently purchased another passenger car with a different roadname and initially panicked when I opened the box and thought that I had received the wrong car. Turned out that the two sides were different. Lesson learned. Thanks, again.
Rich
Rich.
I remember going into the train room one morning and thinking someone had swapped trains on me. I had just put in a balloon track to turn my 13 car rapido passenger train around. For the first time I left it parked over night facing the opposite direction. It took me a minute or two to realize that of course the other side of the train looks different.
A senior moment[D)] and at such a young age.[sigh]
Trivial comment, and not to rain on your parade, but that Walthers Pullman-Standard diner is NOT truly a UP diner. It’s some other road’s car painted in UP colors. The UP lightweight 48-seat diners were built by ACF
Thanks for that info, Binder. I have learned to wear a waterproof wet suit when it comes to unprototypical passenger cars. I am afraid that happens all too often. Yet, if you want the roadname, the colors and the various types of passenger cars, you often have very little choice but to buy what is available.
Rich