You may recall a few years ago Weaver cataloged several MOW troop sleepers, but canceled many of the road names. One of the canceled road names was NYC. I went on a quest to find an undecorated Weaver troop sleeper. I found one at Peterson, but it had no trucks and was missing the light strip. After purchasing the troop sleeper from Peterson my next quest was to find a set of Allied Cushsioned trucks. My wife found one of the warped frame version of the Weaver troop sleeper on EBAY, so I bought it for the trucks. and the light strip. I used the parts from the warped Weaver car to finish the undecorated troop sleeper from Peterson, and painted and lettered the car for NYC.
The troop sleeper car body went to my future project box.
I purchased three troop sleeper replacement frames from Atlas. I used one of the new frames on a Pennsy express car that I had rebuild with a homemade plastic frame last year.
Rebuilt plastic frame on a CN express car I purchased for parts.
Here is the finished plastic frame ready to put on the Pennsy express car.
Here is the new Atlas frame I built up for the Pennsy express car. The home made plastic frame is now back on the CN express car.
I then placed an order for parts from Atlas so I could rebuild a Weaver troop kitchen car and the Weaver troop sleeper car body that I had used for parts. Bill at Atlas was a big help with the parts order. The Atlas parts list for the troop sleeper series is very cryptic. The $22 each for the replacement Allied Cushsioned trucks was quite a shock, but I had to have two pair of them. I also ordered window glass, steam line hose, brake line hose, stirrups, steps, a troop sleeper car interior, and various brake system detail parts that did not survive when I salvaged the warped frames. The old Weaver steam pipe will not fit on the new Atlas frame, it is too big for the holes in the new frames. Atlas has replacement steam pipes, but I made my own out of brass wire.
Here are a few pictures of the troop sleeper project.
Here is the rebuilt frame, painted interior, and the car body shell.
Here is the car body with new window inserts. I had to make one of the door window inserts out of one of the side windows, since Atlas did not send me the correct replacement windows for the doors. I was able to re use one of the door window inserts from the warped frame car body. When assembling the NYC MOW troop sleeper car body I did a really terrible job putting the glass inserts back in the car body. I got glue on many of the window inserts from the original undecorated car body, so I had to cannibalize the window insert form the warped frame car. The warped frame troop sleeper received new window inserts.
Here is the rebuilt troop sleeper after the frame was rebuilt with new, brake detail parts, window inserts, stirrups, steps, and steam line hose / steam pipe were replaced. The trucks are the new high priced Atlas trucks.
Now its 1944 and the troop kitchen and troop sleeper have been rebuilt after a derailment accident. The cars were rebuilt at the NYC Southern Division shops in Lakeland, TN, sent north on the NYC Southern Division and worked their way onto the Pennsylvania RR. system The last leg of the trip on the Pennsy system for the Troop Kitchen Car and the Troop Sleeper will be on the end of a Pennsy express train headed to Philadelphia and eventually to Fort Dix NJ where the two cars will be added to troop trains moving soldiers, sailors, and marines across the country. A rail fan caught the Pennsy express train behind GG1 4935 on video. He had one of those really expensive color camera that were really hard to come by in 1944. 
Thanks for looking at the pictures and video. This was the end of my Weaver troop sleeper car rebuilding project.
Thanks,
Richard
