When I was a kid I lived next to the New York Central main line and watched many passenger trains pass by, Not one of them had an observation car. I was in my early 20s and returning home from a late night date when I caught the 20th Century at a grade crossing, That was the only time I saw an observation car on a Central train.
O gaugers, myself included, tend to run passenger trains that look like publicity photos. The truth is most postwar passenger trains had heavyweight head end cars, sometimes a mixture of stainless, smoothside, and modernized heavyweights in the rest of the consist, some with earlier paint schemes. Many times they would have cars with foreign road names for a connecting train.
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