rivarossi 60' passenger cars

The window material is inset so they are "flush" with the exterior wall of the car. Notes: * In the 50th Anniversary (1988) Rivarossi Catalog a model 9902 3 Pack is also listed. They used to be sold without any interior detailing. One of the baggage rpo cars and the duplex sleeper were definitely PRR. After upgrades, they look good and run well on my layouts. I'm afraid they'll vanish from the marketplace, Modeling the Wabash from Detroit to Montpelier Rivarossi HO scale Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Car Train B&O # 5501 new $15.00 $9.85 shipping or Best Offer Rivarossi HO Scale Santa Fe Super Chief 1930s Passenger 4 Car Set A NIB 6938 (1) $200.00 $15.00 shipping or Best Offer HO RIVAROSSI RT600036 VISTA DOME ALASKA # 500 $129.99 $7.95 shipping or Best Offer Mostly the heavweights were models of Santa Fe prototypes. They are definitely a cut above the 80 foot AHM era cars. But even more recently, a resurrected Rivarossi (under new outside control), has brought back the coach and combine as a limited run item (see ads in MR). Item Add to Wish List. There were more recent runs of Rivarossi 72' cars that have a completely different design, more in line with what Walthers uses on their Proto line, probably both made by Hornby which purchased the assets of Rivarossi a few years back. The newer sets of the 60' cars are of higher quality. At the club our mainlines have a 36" minimum radius, but I believe that the Oregon Trunk branch line and the Logging division may be 30" minimums, which still doesn't help You. manage your account online and more! I looked at these cars with interest. Adding diaphragms helps appearance too. it all worked out well with the smaller wheels. I am happy with all of them. Anxiously waiting. COLOR HO RIVAROSSI OBSERVATION TAIL CAR INTERIOR #9051 1930's AHM IHC Passenger Brand New C $38.76 or Best Offer +C $28.89 shipping from United States 18 sold Sponsored HO TRAIN RIVAROSSI TWO 1920 HW PASSENGER CAR INTERIORS COACH & PULLMAN Brand New C $57.40 Buy It Now +C $19.69 shipping from United States Sponsored I have to wonder why yours are derailing. Capt, I could be wrong about this (and I'm sure someone will point that out to me) but I thought Rivarossi, as a train manufacturer business was gone. Yes, but even 'pullman green' varied with era, railroad, and weathering. There is a newer set of 4 cars that are 60' long. Espee used dark olive which was not Pullman green. I guess I'm just remembering the 'good ole days' when I first walked into a hobby shop and bought my first Athearn BB 50 footer for a whopping $2. Buyer's Premium 15% Lot 0232 Details. However, if you prefer to keep the factor Rivarossi trucks, metal wheel replacements seem to work fine on them. HO SCALE RIVAROSSI UNION PACIFIC PASSENGER CAR LOT OF (6) READ! I also have 83 passenger cars. -fmPerpetrator of the Haggis Decal Project, athttp://www.wyomingyard.com/haggiscar. It is always Fun to meet other modelers, the invite to Visit the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club is always good, let me know if it ever works out for You. 5217-5219 - St Louis Car-built 1937. Some versions had plastic wheels and axles and all had small diameter wheels. Starter Sets & Gift Sets . The combine and diner matched ATSF prototypes, the pullman was a standard type, as was the observattion. I just wanted to confirm that Hornby now owns Rivarossi and you won't find Athearn in the Walthers catalog or website anymore as Horizon & Walthers are competetive distributors now and don't sell each others' products. $60.38. I am looking to replace the horn and hook couplers that are on the IHC carswith Are the Kato and ConCor Union Pacific passenger cars the same colors? I'd always thought (not sure why) that Rivarossi was an off-brand, to be avoided if detail was a consideration. Rivarossi presents the iconic Pullman 60 ft passenger cars that ran for many decades all over the country being pulled by early diesels and steam locomotives from the 1920s through the early 1950s. from I thought the original trucks looked good enough to use, although for a time IHC offered a better quality replacement truck that was very nicely detailed, but also with 31" metal wheelsets. Where I disagree is that their diesels weren't any good. $60.00 5% off + $11.30 shipping. They were very good quality for the 60's and 70's. Yes the flanges were large and ran best on code 100 rail. Pre-owned. If anyone has some good ideas on how to upgrade these passenger cars I'd appreciate it. PRR had so much stuff there may be some hope there. I field tested this set with a Spectrum 4-4-0 on 18" EZ track. Rivarossi 1920 era passenger cars Thanks for your quick response. A lot of work but I wanted to keep the car for whatever reason. I used Kadee 36" wheels to replace the original ones, but you'll need to trim a little material off the brake shoes on the outboard ends of the trucks, in order to allow the replacement wheels to turn freely.There have been comments from some modellers complaining about incorrect proportions of the cars' clerestory roofs, and other minor issues, but they're not things which bother me.Kadee sells coupler conversion kits specifically for the Rivarossi cars, if you're planning to use truck-mounted couplers. Regardless of railroad. . But even in the late 50's and early 60's, I remember a couple Q steam fan trips where they were still able to assemble a complete green heavyweight train - my few photos from those trips where my "people filter" was really working look just like old Lucius Beebe steam portraits. (BTW I believe the Athearn ones are 63' and 67' respectively.) The only issue is that with wheels that are 5"bigger in diameter you do tend to raise the car height up a bit. On some trucks you had to shave a little off the brake shoes. For that, I cast some suitably-sized lead blocks, then put some in the washrooms at each end of the cars (most of my Rivarossi cars came with no interiors), and a bunch more in the clerestories, making each of them 15oz. These cars have body mounted couplers and will in my experience have trouble with curves below 24" radius. Everything is in excellent condition. Thought I'd help the grandnephew with his new layout. i put a few ounces of lead type slugs inside the cars for extra weight. See my web sites for my real address. These were the last cars made by Rivarossi before they went bankrupt, too bad as they were well finished and tracked well. The factory paint schemes were well-applied. IHM and AHM are sorta-kinda related, but not exactly. I used motive power with body mounted couplers with no problem. They have springy diaphrams on the end doors. 3. They track well, run in trains mixed with Walthers cars, and roll like skates! -fm Perpetrator of the Haggis Decal Project, at, On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:21:44 UTC, "Christian" wrote: 2000. On the GN the baggages and RPOs all seem> to have had differing door locations, and the coaches all have> vestibules on BOTH ends.> > They LOOK like nice cars, but where can they, reasonably correctly, be used?> > There is, of course, the possibility of running non-home-road equipment> in many trains, especially sleepers and head-end equipment.> > Dan Mitchell> ==========, These are CNW prototypes, but similar cars were widely used, especially thebaggage and rpo.-- Brian Ehni, You do not have permission to delete messages in this group, Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, A few quick questions regarding the NEW Rivarossi 60' passenger cars [as, I looked at these cars with interest. Their passenger cars are decent though. I have obtained a few of these sets off of e-bay. Can I mix them with body mounted couplers? Thanks to everyone who has chimed in. I bought a set from the same vendor a couple of weeks ago. I also seem to recall that the observation car may have been a business car. Rivarossi introduced its line of quality 60' cars (baggage, RPO, combine, coach) a few years ago.just prior to going into some serious financial straights. Interesting. They are slightly overscale in height and width. The short combine and coaches were used on locals - look at some of the C&NW picture books that are out. Print. If I add enought weight will they stay on the rails? Once there was a time when about 90% of my passenger fleet was the Rivarossi-made, imported by AHM, cars. If I add enought weight will they stay on the rails. One baggage, one RPO, one combine and one coach. Thank goodness I was home to see your post right away. However, they will have an enormous amount of overhang even at 30", especially the Walthers. 8) Any grades if anyare in your track work? While the models' detailing may match nobody's actual car, the 60 foot length certainly does - for instance, the floor plan I'm looking at right now for L&N "Mail cars 1106 to 1112 including 1114". So called, "Pullman Green" was the most common color on passenger cars from the turn of the century until after WWII. Most of them are made to negotiate smaller radii. I have a couple of these sets and would recommend them highly. Con Cor advises those interested to enter reserve orders. Yes the flanges were large and ran best on code 100 rail. Product Notes: 1. While the cars do have some fairly decent underbody details, I usually add more details there, too. Bachmann & Rivarossi HO Scale Assorted Passenger Cars [6] EX. The earlier runs of Rivarossi locos have the pizza cutter flanges that will not run on any track smaller than code 100 (the track that comes with trainsets). Maybe I'l try new wheels and go from there. Sold for $60 4 Bids. Thank you. Underbody detail is cast in place, so upgrading that is harder, but hopefully you'll not be viewing them belly-up too often! They seemed to have dropped Athearn pass cars from the catalog all together. * For similar cars, see also ConCor Heavyweights. 36" wheels were too large unless you wanted to completely remove the brake shoe hanger. There's one for the heavyweight cars with 6-wheel trucks and another for the lightweight car's with four-wheel trucks. $120.90 I will look to add a single car of each style tothe Fast Freight Express that we are assembling. I don't know if wjstix has had experience with these particular cars, or just body mounted couplers on 60' cars acting up on less than 24" radius. I think you may be right about Hornby (couldn't think of the name).. Athearn, MDC (Roundhouse) are now owned by Horizon, since 2005, I think. Many railroads used multiple colors, or types of paint on the same car. Thanks Don! Trains. If your layout has fairly wide curves, you can also use body-mounted couplers. If you want clerestory roofs, Athearn makes RPO, Baggage and Coach cars that are fullsize and a Diner, Pullman and Obs car that are shortened down to 72' (same length as the Coach, the RPO and Baggage car are shorter). Gene Chief Brass Hat Virginia Tidewater and . No 72 Khaki Drill - Matt 2.69. Rivarossi 2709 US Passenger Car New York Central Gauge H0 Unrecorded Boxed | Collectables, Model Railways & Trains, Railways & Trains | eBay! Did you back 'em up too? He says it is HO. Reg Price: $60.99. "I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!". Guess I'll stick with the Rivarossi's. www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com. Again DON'T judge them from the road. with that kind of power, any wheels that do not want to roll will just slide along although none do. So called, "Pullman Green" was the most common color on passenger cars fromthe turn of the century until after WWII. All photos I recall of similar ATSFcars were "Pullman" green, as were CB&Q cars through WWII. While I do add weight to pretty-well everything that runs on the rails, I experimented with making my Rivarossi "heavyweight" cars into true heavyweights. I also added metal wheels. The RPO and Baggage were also approximate 60' size. I've searched for replacement trucks but don't know what to look for. http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=141874#post141874, Tourist Railroad and Railway Museum Directory. Two new Union Pacific streamlined passenger cars of the 1950s have been released by Rivarossi. Does anyone know for sure what the prototypes (if any) for these cars are? bear in mind these are the ones made several decades ago and things may have changed since then. From Pasco, go North on US 395 to Mile post 32, turn left (West) on Sagemoor Rd, across the tracks, turn right (north) on Ione Rd. Most of them are rivarossi. I ended up pulling up the curve and fixing it. Rivarossi is a European company so the earlier stuff isn't built to American standards (but when they realized the steamer market in the states, they quickly changed) . High quality? What's WORSE, paint formula records indicate that real 'pullman green' wasn't GREEN at all. May your flanges always stay BETWEEN the rails. In general they aren't as good as current Bachmann and previous Bachmann Spectrum cars. 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