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at the best online prices at eBay! There is a newer set of 4 cars that are 60' long. In later years (more the lightweight era) MANY railroads had a color they often referred to as "pullman green', and these were often some kind of dark olive green. Everyday trains got Pullman Green. I collect passenger trains and cabooses. It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. Should I look for metal ones made by IHC or are there other suitable, less expensive options. RIVAROSSI HO gauge 4 CAR PASSENGER SET - GREAT NORTHERN EMPIRE - 6944 BOXED | Collectables, Model Railways & Trains, Railways & Trains | eBay! I weakened and bought a boat tail observation car because it was cool, not because the B&M ever owned one. The cars I bought have already had body mounted couplers added so I don't need to do that. Painted Daylight 1941 for the San Joaquin. bear in mind these are the ones made several decades ago and things may have changed since then. Detail is decent even by today's standards. I'll have to dig up some four-wheel trucks for these. Reply Back then I was able to order interiors for all of them. CNW used some as smokers on commuter trains for example. I've been doing some reading and have learned that most people replace the wheels and or trucks. 2. I did a cursory look through a bunch of my GN and PRR materials andcould not find a believable match for any of them. Thanks. The stock waslimited and sold out rather quickly. HO Scale Coupler Conversions AHM (Rivarossi) The perfect solution for all of your coupler woes. 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". He says it is HO. Rivarossi is decent, although most if not all of their models have a small level of inaccuracy or missing some detail (which detail parts can fix). Thanks everyone! rare N Scale Rivarossi the Alton Limited 6-car passenger set 9584 - 9589 train. These were the last cars made by Rivarossi before they went bankrupt, too bad as they were well finished and tracked well. Interesting. The coaches/combine they modeled appear to be C&NW specific, but maybe we will see other 'old' passenger cars brought out by Walthers. Are they underscale? Dimensions: 600mm. Rivarossi 60' RPO car. I did remove some of the excess weight, but will be replacing the trucks with ones from Walthers, and will likely re-up the weights. They appear to be updates of the 40, The short combine and coaches were used on locals - look at some of the C&NW, > 2) Was the ATSF version [prototype] and the Burlington version, On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:21:44 UTC, "Christian" <. Enjoy your new engine. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for I Rivarossi Level Passage at the best online prices at eBay! A big difference is the old cars had cast on grabirons and railings; the 60' cars I believe required you drill tiny holes to add these as metal add-on parts. I'm afraid they'll vanish from the marketplace, Modeling the Wabash from Detroit to Montpelier The Rivarossiheavyweight cars are mostly Santa Fe prototypes, though the Pullman sleeper and coach are common to many railroads. I'd always thought (not sure why) that Rivarossi was an off-brand, to be avoided if detail was a consideration. 4. It was a mixture of lamp black (carbon) and YELLOW. I did change-out the undersize Rivarossi wheelsets, and replaced them with Kadee 36" wheelsets.Some of these cars have truck-mounted couplers, some body-mounted, but I do have fairly generous curves, so very few problems with derailments. Don't know which one you are talking about. Rivarossi Southern Pacific HO Model Railroad Passenger Cars, Rivarossi Union Pacific Railroad HO Model Railroad Locomotives, This website has all the protype information for Riverossi cars. Everyday trains got Pullman Green.> /Partly/ because that green was the official color for Pullman which owned> and operated most sleeping cars until after WWII. Rivarossi & Custom HO Scale Passenger Cars [5], Passenger Car Interior KIT for the IHC/Rivarossi Corrugated-Side Observation Car. They appear to be updates of the 40 year old Walthers metal-sided "Shorty" passenger cars. One baggage, one RPO, one combine and one coach. Sometimes the metal wheels found their way on to the unlighted cars. However, they will have an enormous amount of overhang even at 30", especially the Walthers. While I've never bought one new, I have quite a few bought off the "used" table at a now long-gone hobbyshop.I think that the detail is decent, although the wheels are undersize, and have flanges which are deeper than most HO scale wheels. really, they roll great. First(and only)place on the right. thanks for your info guys. Baggage and RPO cars were often shorter than other cars in the steam era, and coaches were often around 70'. 36" would be more correct but they would not clear inside the truck frame without surgery on the brake shoes. The Fora platform includes forum software by XenForo. I also have A PRR GG1 (sold by AHM) and even though it is only single truck drive and underpowered, again with the large flanges it runs very well. Rivarossi /IHC & AHM Passenger car NMRA horn hook coupler Lot Of 12 Couplers new. I discovered they they meant 18, not 17 3/4, when I checked one flex-track curve. Mike. Up until the mid-1950's, the C&NW Chicago commuter trains were being hauled by light pacifics in the E and E-1 classes, when they replaced by GP's and F's. If you get a chance to look around, Walthers packaged a set of three coaches with trainsets. Yes, but even 'pullman green' varied with era, railroad, and weathering. For those, I used sheet styrene to create interior walls and partitions, and added RIX/PikeStuff seats'. . They are definitely a cut above the 80 foot AHM era cars. The short combine and coaches were used on locals - look at some of the C&NW picture books that are out. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. Fetters and Alco worked together to develop . They are generic designs and not specific to any the prototype. Le migliori offerte per Vintage HO Train Car - Rivarossi Burlington Northern Dome Passenger Car #357 sono su eBay Confronta prezzi e caratteristiche di prodotti nuovi e usati Molti articoli con consegna gratis! The GN buffs are still squabbling over these details. HO Scale Athearn HO 84857 50' Old Time Overland Passenger Car Set, Great Northern #1 (4) SKU: ATH-84857. The GN buffs are still squabbling over these details. Rivarossi was very innovative and the Pocher brand (Luxury car kits at 1/8 scale) are also issued from the same Italian factory. Walthers bought out Rivarossi's remaining stock of these cars and sold them under their TrainLine banner for a year or two. I also added weight to the cars and retained the integral couplers (versus body mounted) but replaced them with Kadees. I'm glad its a steam that I am getting. Those cars were completely different than the Rivarossi / Hornby / Walthers 60' cars that came out a quarter century later. You just select which one your prototype used. ), it's going to be a lot easier to make up some decent-looking typical heavyweight consists that don't look as much like a boxed set. It is my intention to run these coaches primarily on the mainline track but will on occasion need to divert them to the local track. . Charlie, are you happy with the way they roll with replacement wheels in the old trucks? I am getting a four car set of 60 foot cars. I think we need more details. Something went wrong. The Set A and Set B are OK cars. Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, I've searched for replacement trucks but don't know what to look for. $60.00 5% off + $11.30 shipping. I run them both straight out of the box with their horn hook couplers, and also heavily detailed and modified to include body mounted Kadee couplers. Butadd more resistance which may not be a good thing. The car floors were predrilled with holes for wiring the car for electrical pickup from the trucks for lighting, but the wheels were plastic. Did you back 'em up too? Either will serve your railroad well. Free shipping for many products! Too bad they're not running undecs (yet?) My. The RPO and Baggage were also approximate 60' size. Item Add to Wish List. Add To Wish List. * For similar cars, see also ConCor Heavyweights. Gene Chief Brass Hat Virginia Tidewater and . This is Rivarossi's postal/express baggage car, altered a bit to better ressemble a CNR prototype. Also if more road names are forthcoming. They had no lighting and only a bare set of interior seats. JavaScript is disabled. 5217-5219 - St Louis Car-built 1937. The RPOs and baggage cars (with 6 wheel trucks) were in general passenger service, while the 4 wheel truck combines and coaches were used. Many railroads used multiple colors, or types of paint on the same car. OK, Capt'n, here's how the story of ~60 ' cars currently goes Rivarossi introduced its line of quality 60' cars (baggage, RPO, combine, coach) a few years agojust prior to going into some serious financial straights. I field tested this set with a Spectrum 4-4-0 on 18" EZ track. 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. I eagerly await their arrival. Everything is in excellent condition. PRR had so much stuff> there may be some hope there. They came without lights but they did have empty rows of seats. I have a trio of 2-8-8-2 Mallets. $60.38. HO Rivarossi MISSOURI PACIFIC COLORADO EAGLE OBS SHRINE TOWER Passenger Car IOB. I will look to add a single car of each style tothe Fast Freight Express that we are assembling. Coaches 2097, 2098, 2099, were similarly sized and equipped.So there's 8 passenger cars in the 70ft overall length range, certainly not a fleet but yet more than the odd singleton. I broke off the brake clasps so the 36" wheels would fit. HO 1880's-1920's Old Time Passenger Cars; HO Modern Mail Handling Box Cars - On Sale! 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. I ordered metal wheels to fit the IHC trucks. . Shop . Only thing I'd point out is they have body mounted couplers; the coupler boxes do allow for a fair amount of lateral swing, but if you bought them figuring they would work well on tight curves (like 18" radius) you might be disappointed. HO Scale AHM/Rivarossi (5) Passenger Cars "Baltimore & Ohio" Lot#1246. Mid-grade? On the 22" line and they ran through a number of turnouts fine both forward and backward. Free shipping for many products! Super cheap? There were also 60 ft heavyweight sets packaged in both the Walthers and Rivarossi labels, the 60' cars came in a wide variety of railroad names as well. Thecoaches ranfine, I then ran them on my mainline which is 22" radius and of course they ran perfectly. Country: Germany. No 61 Flesh - Matt 2.69. David Starr The new Rivarossi cars appear to be based on the same C&NW prototypes as the old Walthers cars - full RPOs in the 9413-33 series, baggage cars in various 87xx series, combines in various batches in the 74xx series, and coaches in several groups numbered between 3088 and 3306 (the photos and car listing indicate Rivarossi used accurate numbers on the C&NW cars). $60.00 + $17.00 shipping. They are much more free rolling, They come with body mounted couplers out of the box (but the set I got were McHenry rather than Kadee). 30+ years later, I still have all of them in my fleet, now in their 4th or 5th upgrade cycle. Ho RIVAROSSI 4-6-2 " Light Pacific" C.B.&Q #462 BURLINGTON ROUTE Nice! They come with basic interiors, and I've seen three car sets (baggage, 2 coaches) available NIB in the local LHS recently, $50 give or take. RIVAROSSI HO Carro gru a 2 assi+BOX Catalogo Collezionisti 1957/58/59/60 RARIT . Most of the Horizon stuff I've seen in the Athearn name is RTR and IMO, Overpriced. All have truck mounted horn-hook couplers, and they stay on the track just fine. You live in Skagit County and are calling FIFE SCENIC? A few photos(photos will enlarge if clicked upon). $60.00 + $18.00 shipping. Trains. Off the top of my head, the RPO is a match or near-match for RPOs thatthe C&O and the Wabash used, and I /think/ the B&O, Southern and L&N. They won't handle 17 3/4 inch curves. I likely won't get over that way for a long time, but. 2d 20h +$15.00 shipping Sponsored Rivarossi 2335 - 2340 6 Passenger Cars NMRA 50th Anniversary HO Scale Pre-Owned $169.15 Was: $199.00 15% off Buy It Now +$17.50 shipping Free returns Sponsored Ho Scale Rivarossi SP Passenger Car Pre-Owned $34.00 or Best Offer Product Notes: 1. These 60'ers are just the ticket for my smaller layout. About that time, four 60' heavyweight cars (RPO, Baggage, Combine, Coach) all based on CNW prototypes came out. GQ. $120.90 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). The set consists of a coach, combine, RPO, and baggage. Between these cars and the upcoming Branchline coaches (actually shown at the RPM meet in Cocoa Beach last weekend! You simply can't go wrong using the best. If anyone has some good ideas on how to upgrade these passenger cars I'd appreciate it. i had to body mount my own couplers using sheet styrene to fabricate a mounting surface for the number 5 Kadee boxes. You can see where the one axle was rubbing on the coupler mounting boss. I bought a set of these from Trainworld last year and they are beauties. (BTW I believe the Athearn ones are 63' and 67' respectively.) Started by patzwaldb, February 21, 2009, 02:19:16 PM. Took about an hour of carefull work as to not get the metal rims to hot. 4/14, Lenovo Flex 5 14" FHD Touchscreen 2-in-1 Laptop Ryzen 5-5500U 16GB RAM 512GB SSD, Google - Pixel 6 128GB Unlocked - Very Good, 1959 Mexico Gold 10 Pesos (.2411 oz) - BU, Skullcandy Sesh Evo True Wireless In-Ear Headset-Six colors Certified Refurbish, Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3i 15.6" FHD 120Hz i7-12700H 8GB RAM 512GB SSD RTX 3050Ti, Dyson HP02 Pure Hot+Cool Link Connected Air Purifier | Certified Refurbished. /Partly/ because that green was the official color for Pullman which owned and operated most sleeping cars until after WWII. I am looking at getting a four car set of rivarossi heavyweight passenger cars in GN livery. Free delivery for many products! Notes the series had 4 wheel trucks with 36 inch wheels and 5.5 by 10 inch journals. (what is theera of the cars). I run them both straight out of the box with their horn hook couplers, and also heavily detailed and modified to include body mounted Kadee couplers. 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. I was thrilled to see that they were Santa Fe also. There's one for the heavyweight cars with 6-wheel trucks and another for the lightweight car's with four-wheel trucks. Rivarossi HO #2882 1920 Pullman -Southern Pacific Night Fern RTR NIB! I did a cursory look through a bunch of my GN and PRR materials and could not find a believable match for any of them. Thanks Doug. I got a set of the 60 footers around 20 years ago, maybe longer. They are very much underweight. The ones you're getting are completely different. What area of Seattle do You live in? Well, that's another story. Excellent. Those with the distinctive inset bottom sill are Santa Fe: diner, combine and maybe observations? Sold for $60 4 Bids. A and B set, each 4 cars for the . I have ten Rivarossi heavyweight passenger cars I run with a A/B set of Athearn PAs. But with their similar appearance, they do look good together on a model RR, and particularly one with tighter curves. Fortunately, it appears that the Kato and Con-corcorrugated Budd cars are all prototypical, but only the slumbercoachis an identical car common to both lines. I think Kadee made a special part for this purpose (the work was done some years back). Here is a link showing Walther's Rivarossi stock of passenger cars. What's WORSE, paint formula records indicate that real 'pullman green'wasn't GREEN at all. But, running those cars in reverse by backing up the motive power? $21.50 + $17.70 shipping. Shop from top railroading brands like Centralia Car Shops, Bachmann, Walthers, and Lionel. What's WORSE, paint formula records indicate that real 'pullman green' wasn't GREEN at all. If so, sounds great. Here's a quick unboxing and review of the Rivarossi 60'. I have an old NYC Hudson that runs great and will also run on code 83 track after I turned down the flanges with my dremel and stone wheel. They are generic designs and not specific to any the prototype. Rivarossi 60' HO Passenger Car Set Unboxing & Review 2,291 views May 1, 2020 49 Dislike Share Save Trainman440 1.25K subscribers Hi guys! Mine were lettered for the Burlington but I removed that and relettered them for my fictional branchline. The coupler box "swing arm" is well supported too, which will avoid coupler droop. Close, maybe, Really correct, no. It may not display this or other websites correctly. They appear to be updates of the 40 year old Walthers metal-sided "Shorty" passenger cars. it all worked out well with the smaller wheels. The Rivarossi combine and coach are supposed to be models of C&NW Chicago area commuter cars, which, of course were generally shorter than intercity cars. I bought a set from the same vendor a couple of weeks ago. ok, i am back. You will find locals passing through Wisconsin with those headend cars and the coaches. AU $51.94 . The MDC/Harriman cars are 60' cars with truck-mounted couplers which will allow them to run on 18"R curves. Thank goodness I was home to see your post right away. I don't use diaphragms, and they didn't come with any. The aliens did it. I wanted to see if there'd be anything else available other than the coaches, first. http://cgi.ebay.com/HO-Rivarossi-Passenger-Car-Set-Santa-Fe-600229_W0QQitemZ220195710250QQihZ012QQcategoryZ19129QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem. You never really specified which kind you were buying, so the responses were all over the place. Thanks Don! . Two new Union Pacific streamlined passenger cars of the 1950s have been released by Rivarossi. The 60' commuter cars were replaced and scrapped as the 85' bi-level cars began being delivered in 1956. Buyer's Premium 15% Lot 0232 Details. Although all four Riv 60' cars are based on real 60' long cars, the RPO and Baggage cars were much more common at that length. The sets were in 2 different 4 car sets, the sets had kaydee type couplers, sprung metal wheel sets, were also weighted and had interior finish and lighting as well. The RPOs and baggage cars were more ubiquitous and are probably like cars rostered by ATSF and CB&Q. Description. "I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!". However, I don't do too much, just adding say 1 oz. New layout and passenger cars; New layout and passenger cars. 9) Will you need to back the car on to another track or through a turnout/switch or will the cars only go forward? -- I don't care for strippingcars, but I'll need to before I paint up one in Wabash. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. As I understand it, the new Rivarossi company owned by Hornby has the old Rivarossi molds so I think there is a good chance the entire line might get reintroduced. This is a unit I metalized and weathered. While I have deep-sixed most of the remaining Rivarossi in exchange for Walthers, Rapido, and BLI, I still have a few cars. Many older CB&Q head end cars were repainted an aluminum color in the 50's and 60's so they would not stand out so prominently when run in trains of fluted-side stainless steel cars. The address in the header of this message is deliberately bogus tofoil address-harvesters. Off the top of my head, the RPO is a match or near-match for RPOs that the C&O and the Wabash used, and I /think/ the B&O, Southern and L&N. I painted the red stripe thru the windows using a rattle can. These will be offeredin 2 car sets. Some versions had plastic wheels and axles and all had small diameter wheels. I picked up a Walthers lighting kit for each car, whick provided replacement trucks with metal wheels. Railway: DB. Walther's made a LED light bar that fit in nicely. They all needed weight. Some Rivarossi cars come with interior details, but most of my pre-used ones didn't. Starter Sets & Gift Sets . But it did take on agreenish cast under some weathering and lighting conditions. These were not really prototypical. The SGRR is a freelanced Class A railroad as it would have appeared on Tuesday, August 3rd, 1954, in my personal fantasy world of plausible nonsense. Saw some late in the day at the Timonium train show. I upgraded all to McHenry truck mounted couplers, 36" or 38" Intermountain wheelsets (after removing car brake shoes), and, when necessary, extra weight using glued birdshot in nooks and crannies of model floors. Raised on the Erie Lackawanna Mainline- Supt. By todays standards they . 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 They were good models for their time, but had truck mounted couplers. Previous topic - Next topic. Years ago I simply replaced the Riv's wheels with Kadees as that was all that was available. -fm Perpetrator of the Haggis Decal Project, at, On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:21:44 UTC, "Christian" wrote: 2000. 60 Ft. RPO - O Scale. how do they roll? Looking at these cars, the couplers are body, not truck mounted, BUT the couplers are mounted on a swinging arm, which allows more travel in addition to the normal coupler movement. In the early years Rivarossi catered to children because Alessandro was producing trains with speeds in a more realistic ratio to scale. C-415 Build: https://imageshack.com/a/tShC/1, Other builds: https://imageshack.com/my/albums. $59.95 + $14.82 shipping. Adding diaphragms helps appearance too. ModelRailroadForums.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. I also have 83 passenger cars. I think Rivarossi even captured the blanked out windows of the original. I made bronze axle wipers to pick up juice. Rivarossi 1920 era passenger cars Thanks for your quick response. HO SCALE RIVAROSSI GULF MOBILE & OHIO PASSENGER CAR LOT OF (5) RARE!READ! I'm looking forward to these cars, specifically the RPO and the baggage. I've just recently started work on converting some Rivarossi Pullmans, coaches, and diners, along with some MDC and Walthers coach roofs, into 17 or 18 wooden head-end cars (baggage/express/postal cars, along with a battery charging car. So called, "Pullman Green" was the most common color on passenger cars fromthe turn of the century until after WWII. I have some of those 60' cars from when they were made by Walthers - Trainline. This example shows the very old wheel design used by Rivarossi. A railroad had to be> mighty big to get Pullman to specially paint Pullman cars for a specific> train. These cars have body mounted couplers and will in my experience have trouble with curves below 24" radius. + $5.60 shipping. You might find a few wood passenger cars in the thirties/forties but it would be very rare. PremierName trains got the pretty paint. They are true horses. In addition to Rivarossi, there's a company embarking on Boston & Maine 60/66 foot Coaches, and Combines in Resin. Rivarossi presents the iconic Pullman 60 ft passenger coaches that ran for many decades all over the country being pulled by early diesels and steam locomotives from the 1920s through the early 1950s. Too bad they're not running undecs (yet?) Between these cars and the upcoming Branchline coaches (actually shownat the RPM meet in Cocoa Beach last weekend! Just an educated guess. 00 and the Y6b retailed for $29. The same guy (Bernard Paul) was involved in both, but the products were not the same. To my knowledge, these cars arearound 54' between the vestibules, or about 64' between the coupler faces. The roofs may, or maynot, have been either black, 'pullman green', or 'dark green truckenamel'. been hittin' the bottle a little hard lately? Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Walthers 933-1052: HO RIVAROSSI Passenger Car INTERIOR LIGHTING Kit NIOB at the best online prices at eBay! 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