Weaver (in “O”) offers their “Pullman-Bradley” coaches in a number of railroads- some of which I am doubtful ever ran these cars. I know that the New Haven, Boston and Maine, Lehigh Valley*, Kansas City Southern*, Seaboard and Southern Pacific ran these cars (*a variation from the “normal” car), but did the Long Island, Gulf Mobile and Ohio, Canadian National or Great Northern ever run these cars? Or did the Southern Pacific ever run these in “Daylight” colors? Thanks for your help- Richard W.
The Southern Pacific cars were originally Cotton Belt. These cars were painted in the SSW daylight scheme.The roof was silver instead of black.The sides were the same as SP.These cars were later repainted in standard SP silver with a red letterboard stripe.
I have seen photos of Rio Grande lounge cars that looked like Americn Flyer cars,but were not identified as such.
IIRC, BAR was also a user of these cars, and I saw a pic recently that looked like CP also had some (not sure, however). I don’t think the LIRR did, but the GM&O sounds like a maybe…
Paul A. Cutler III
Weather Or No Go New Haven
I’ve seen photos of the “Exposition Flyer” on the WP that contain cars looking suspiciously like the “American Flyer” coaches. Since both Burlington and Rio Grande also operated the “Exposition”, I would guess that the coaches belong to either of those roads. My guess would be Rio Grande, since Espeefoamer mentioned that he’d seen lounge cars from the D&RGW that looked like these.
Tom