For Reading RR fans

Not sure if Reading Company has a prototype of this K-Line model or not.

However Williams doesn't get the caboose prototype correct at all!

You can post a photo by going to photobucket.com and then posting to here of your model passenger car by K-Line.

Lee Fritz

I think this car was put in the wrong box. I have seen pictures of the reading #593 combine and it is a standard style combine. I believe the car I have is known as a "grill car" because half the car has no windows or baggage door...that would be the area in the car where the lunch counter and grill would be. 

I bought it used (Trainz) so it may be boxed wrong.

Yes, it is the grill car. However, I think the prototype actually had all windows on one side.

The Reading had two types of streamlined cars: the stainless steel consist of the CRUSADER and semistreamlined ("blimp") 2000 series cars introduced in 1948 for the WALL STREET (Reading Terminal, Philly - Jersey City Terminal); the KING COAL (Reading Terminal-Shamokin); and the SCHUYLKILL (Reading Terminal-Pottsville).

I agree with the above posts. It's a grill car.

Come to think of it, Reading and Jersey Central combines had an unusual detail: a vestibule in front of the car. On other roads, the front was "blank" - no vestibule.

Here's a photo

It is a very unique window/door plan.

Couldn't post two pictures on the same page. Below is the K-line car I bought, its in Pennsy colors...repainted by the previous owner. The box indicates it was a Reading car.

It's a repaint job. Photo looks good at a distance, but up close the maroon looks like it was put on with a paint brush, the decals are cracking off and the aluminum paint is uneven, thick, and wavy. I could go on, but it is definitely not a factory finish.

I do believe it was intended to be a "grill car"...just can't confirm it because of the lack of available K-line information.

Thank you for posting a photo of Combine 408, Rockyroad. That was the first car on many Iron Horse Rambles.