1901ish Pullman Passenger car?

It's is what I'm talking about, exquisite. I want this in O.

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=2683415

I don't recall anybody making early 1900's wood cars, at least not the full-length deluxe cars you're looking for. LaBelle Woodworking has 'em but they're in kit form. Worth a look, at least...   https://www.labellemodels.com/...er-cars-c-22_28.html

I built a couple of their HO kits many years ago. The first kit is your learning curve, the others just take time and patience.  I'm sure you'll get more comments from the day shift forum members.

Here's some detail of the end of one. You can see that the arched windows are carried through to the rear. 

Wow.  It is a beautiful car and I can see why you would want to have models of it.  I can't even think of something you could easily bash into one.  It would be a real challenge.  The kits Jerry Nolan talked about might be the only path available.  As he advises, it will take one kit before you learn how to assemble them well.  They are definatley something that "Is easy to do the second time you do it."

As beautiful an era as it was, most modelers avoid the turn of the century.  I think it is just because they prefer BIG STEAM, and the cars that would have complimented them.  I notice this with model automobiles, too.  Way too many models of the 50s and 60s, but rarely do you get more than a Model T or Model A from pre-WWII.

Plus the ornate nature of those trains wasn't as easy to duplicate during the golden ages of toy trains.  

MTH's woodside passenger cars, especially the observation, are the closest RTR models, but unfortunately don't feature arched windows. Besides that, you've got to go with LaBelle, as noted above.

 

The SMR cars Norm mentions are FAR too early for what you're looking for.

 

On a side note--I believe the restored car in your photos isn't painted correctly--Instead of Pullman Green, it should probably be Pullman Brown (you can see that color today on any UPS truck).

I purchased a new EJ&E book at the Dupage train show on sunday, and inside they show some pictures I have never seen before of two EJ&E passenger cars purchased from Pullman in 1901. They are truly works of art. I wish I could share the pictures here. They were rebuilt in 1928 and were given the square windows.

 

The 1901 version is truly a thing of beauty. EJ&E was mainly a freight line, but these cars were used from time to time and on special occasions. I am a bit surprised that a car like this has never been constructed.

Agreed. It is a true palace on wheels; a thing of beauty.

 

I'm one of the few people here who tries to model the 1890s, and the MTH cars are the best (actually, only) period-correct RTR cars out there. An arched-roofed observation in green or burgundy with that pinstriping would be amazing.

 I am interested in the Great Northern Passenger cars around 1915. It looks like I'll be trying one of the Labelle kits or trying to modify the windows in the woodsided MTH. Has anyone have a picture of a completed Labelle O scale observation car they could post?   Don

To really put put an earlier date on this maybe you should make a Wagner Palace car. An early competetor to Pullman. I used to have a set of actual curve top windows from one of these cars that had been installed on a cabin inthe 20s.