Monon passenger cars

[edgecrusher]

Anyone know of a source for passenger car sides brass, plastic or otherwise?  I've done some looking and come up with nothing so far.
Any help would be appreciated.

[mlehman]

I believe Walthers had kits for the converted ex-US Army hospital cars, if you can find any. Everything else was pretty much older heavyweight stuff. I managed to find a Walthers troop sleeper-to-express boxcar conversion painted in the red-and-white scheme a few years back. Right now I'd be happy with any old AHM, IHC, or Concor set in Monon. I believe at least one of them produced a stand-in set from the usual suspects. I hope someone else has better suggestions.

[edwardsutorik]

The only lightweight cars Monon had were the ex-hospital cars. They had 20 and several. So figuring out how to mass produce some would be a good thing. "Someone" could do the sides. I can't tell if you can use a typical core kit, or not. Looks close.

The Walthers Monon troop sleeper conversion is something to research and find. E-bay, etc.

That leaves heavyweights. More research, photos, etc.


All this depending on how accurate you want to be. And how much you want to spray paint.


If you want off-the-shelf, I think you'll be buying IHC. They are listing 4 Monon cars on their site, right now. And I think they've done others. Not the world's most wonderful, but they're RTR. I guess.



Ed

[Paul Cutler III]

Rapido made coaches this year in 5 numbers:

rapidotrains.com/sclcoach.html#mon

Walthers did the troopsleeper conversions:

www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-4183

[mlehman]

Ed,
Thanks for the tip. It's not so much wanting RTR, but it's that or scratchbuilding -- and I've got other projects of higher priority. Right now, I'm just looking at something to put behind my high-hood C420.

[edwardsutorik]

Mike,

Something like this?:






Nice lookin'!!!




Ed

[edgecrusher]

Thanks for the replys guys. I definitely don't need RTR. Knowing that the coaches with the large Windows were former hospital cars certainly helps. I know Overland ran some a few years ago. I can handle building the heavyweights and headend stuff, I was just at a loss for the large window cars.

[mlehman]

Nov 11, 2015 16:23:21 GMT -8 edwardsutorik said:

Mike,

Something like this?:

SNIP

Pretty much. I actually favor the gold and black, even though I'm from the IU end of the system. So I may end up painting some other stand-ins as an alternative.

AFAIK, Mont Switzer's decal line is still available and definitely a useful resource if you plan to build or paint.
www.greatdecals.com/Switzer.htm

[Christian]

Nov 11, 2015 14:48:32 GMT -8 edwardsutorik said:

The only lightweight cars Monon had were the ex-hospital cars. They had 20 and several. So figuring out how to mass produce some would be a good thing. "Someone" could do the sides. I can't tell if you can use a typical core kit, or not. Looks close.

Also needed by Alaska Railroad modelers. 30+ in use for decades. ARR had a large number of Pullman troop and kitchen cars which were rebuilt for all sorts of uses. He is a photo by, I think, John Combs showing two troop cars. One factory height and one stacked pair. These cars stayed on their Allied, Chrysler or Bettendorf trucks to the end.

[stevewagner]

My memory is hazy on this, but I THINK Walthers also used its tooling for craftsman-type kits for hospital cars to make circus cars that came with decals for Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey. The circus objected and Walthers had to stop selling those. But that's one more possibility to search for at hobby shops or shows and/or on eBay.

[fmilhaupt]

Model Railroad Warehouse used to have etched brass wrapper kits for the hospital cars.

For a while they were taking advance reservations for wrappers for the Monon cars, but dropped the project this past summer when they did not get enough interest.

[edgecrusher]

I just noticed that on they're website. As usual I'm one step behind the game on this stuff.