passenger car

[challenger]

recently purchased a bachmann plus union pacific diner, item no; 13054, n scale, would like to know if still on general sale. regards, challenger

[GlennW]

I haven't seen new "shorty" heavyweights for some time. They may be about 10years old. You have a real find.

IIRC the cars are lighted with a truck mounted tab over the axles. You may find the tabs create too much drag. Bending the tabs can help some.

[brokemoto]

Currently, those cars are out of production.  You can still find them at shows, on FeePay and some dealers do have them as NOS.  Originally,
B-mann issued them in PRR and ATSF.  Later, when
B-personn did the PLUS series, they appeared in B&O, NYC, UP, GN and maybe one or two others.

Bachpersonn issued three car types:  combine, coach and open deck observation.  The prototypes for these cars are C&NW commuter cars.  The coach and combine actually existed.  The observation is simply a coach with one vestibule cut out and replaced with a deck.  Funny, Bachmann never sold these in Northwestern.   The 'diner' is actually a coach with 'diner' printed on it. 

There has been much clamour for B-mann to re-issue these, especially since the appearance of the MDC/Athearn 2-8-0 and 2-6-0 and Model Power 4-4-0 and 2-6-0.  As the aforementioned power has appeared in numerous roads, perhaps B-mann will issue some cars in those roads.