Open sided excursion cars

[Hamish K]

As I stated in my original post, while such cars can be relatively easily bashed (and there are kits), some people prefer ready to run. My railroading time is limited, bashing a car takes time away from working on the scenery.

It should be possible for Bachmann to base an excursion car on the existing freight range with less new tooling (and thus lower cost to them) compared to a completely new design. The pulpwood car was based on the flat for example.

Personally I have no particular preference for prototype as long as the car is fairly generic, i.e. it is not a distinctive design found only on one road.

Hamish

[ebtnut]

I checked in the new catalog last night, and it did not say whether or not the new underframes are metal or not.  My bad. Mr. Bachmann, can you enlighten us on this?

[max (uk)]

I think its just the new lowerd frames like they put on all the new cars. Made of plasic.

Max,
You won't know until you try.
Get yerself a bachmann Flat car, some matchsticks for the stakes and some coffee stirrers from Starbucks or Costas and go from there.

Thanks for the advise. After all, one of the reasons i went to On30 is so i could do some model bashes and no-one could say it was rong.   

[the Bach-man]

Dear EBT,
They are indeed plastic.
Have fun!
the Bach-man

[ModemCowboy]

check-out this excursion car from gme - star models

http://www.g-m-e.com/images/gilpin%20excursion%20cars%20web.jpg

also make a round-roof wood cab for bmnn 2-8-0

[finderskeepers]

Open sided cars are already available, no need to wish for such a thing, they are produced by Grizzly mountain engineering.
http://www.g-m-e.com/images/gilpin%20excursion%20cars%20web.jpg

[Dusten Barefoot]

But I don't think those are the ones that he means. They are too open.
Rock On & Live Strong
Dusten

[Hamish K]

Broadly speaking there are two sorts of open sided excursion cars: cross seating like the Gilpin Tram cars (the GME models mentioned by finderskeepers) and longitudinal seating like the other photos posted in this thread and the Mount Blue kits. Often the longitudinal seating cars had solid or slattered partial sides and were open above that.  Yes, I was thinking of some sort of partial sided longitudinal seating car.

Hamish

[max (uk)]

I would prefer the latter too, as thoughs benches look too fancy for what im looking for.

[bwreno]

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