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Smoothside Streamlined Passenger Cars
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Hi gents
Just picked up by auction (here in NZ) a 2652 Smoothside Combine "Baggage" PRR in moderate condition for about $14US equiv including freight. Nice little car but not sure it will travel on rails with its sister Huron Rapids which I'm pleased to say I could put on a CZ consist as the real thing did appear on the D&RGW edition at one time or more. Moderate condition- no box at all- roof paint scratched / flaked off in small patches; blemishes on predominantly one side I'm guessing from packing, with wear down to plastic on some edges and profile highlights. With lighting, no interior set, both trucks (only a little axle rust) present but one coupler gone, would need touch up or respray to rehabilitate to show status. Just thought I'd let you know they get around! regards davew (UMTRR novice @ 10 years) ;-) |
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Hi Dave,
Congrats on being able to get one of those down under. I have a couple sets of the Pennsy smoothside cars. One from years ago and the other recently acquired. Kind of silly but the price was good so I couldn't pass them up.
They are nice cars. The paint rubbed off is undoubtedly from when the car was shipped in its original plastic box with the blue plastic insert. One trip usually didn't do any harm but several trips would usually "vibrate/rub" the paint off the high spots. The roof should be easy enough to restore since it is just flat black. If you have or can get some tuscan red, that should match the Pennsy color on the sides good enough for touch up.
If you already know that stuff and my advice is redundant, I apologize.
Doug
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I was wondering, did Atlas ever OEM the Rowa cars from the early
70ies? I have a beautiful set of CP Rail cars with the red stripe in the original Rowa boxes, and recently picked up set of silver and black PRR cars that came without boxes, but that the eBay seller posted as being Atlas. There is no Atlas logo on the bottom, just "Made in Germany" and the Rowa mark. Cheers, Martin -- "Politicians should wear fire-suits like race car drivers, that way we could easily tell who their corporate sponsors are." - William "Bill" Maher HTTP://TheKentauride.com |
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Rowa made their own cars until they went bankrupt. Rivarossi made all of Atlas' passenger cars but never any for Rowa.
Those cars from the eBay auction are not Atlas. They are Rowa if they have the Rowa trademark on them.
Doug
I was wondering, did Atlas ever OEM the Rowa cars from the early |
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Thanks Doug.
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I thought they might have been an OEM since the Rowa cars have the same metal-with-one-wheel-insulated axles and wheels as used on my Atlas cars. Also, I believe that Con-Cor sold Rowa cars under their brand, as I also have a set of D&H cars that came in Con-Cor boxes with the dot-matrix printed end labels. Unfortunately I had to dispose of the boxes as they'd been wet and smelled pretty bad. I'm surprised that no one bought those molds when Rowa went under, they were quite detailed for the time. Cheers, Martin On 2/23/18, dgosha@... [a1g] <a1g@...> wrote:
Rowa made their own cars until they went bankrupt. Rivarossi made all of --
"Politicians should wear fire-suits like race car drivers, that way we could easily tell who their corporate sponsors are." - William "Bill" Maher HTTP://TheKentauride.com |
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