FWIW: Comparison of "1:48" seated figures for passenger cars. My conclusion is to buy cheap!

Just looked at the RMT web site and they are supposed to be in stock in July. OK, we need a volunteer to evaluate them and  spend the $ to check them out.

As GRJ says:

Nothing is so easy as the job you imagine someone else doing!

I used the unpainted MTH set of 120 figures.  To me they are undersized when viewed in a setting where the entire figure is visible.  But for my RK passenger cars they were perfect.  Of course I had to paint them but 1) I enjoy that activity and 2) I could make the color schemes completely unique.

I also liked that some of figures are standing.

- walt

@John Knapp posted:

     The "Beep People" are exactly the same as the people that came with my original K-Line Hiawatha cars. Same people, same clothing.

True. The same oversized clown faced figures still made by RMT. Here is the pic from their website:

http://www.readymadetoys.com/besefi.html

The MTH bag of 120 unpainted figures (mix of sitting and standing) and the Golden Gate Depot Little People will fit passenger cars without amputations. Most other figures need amputations or need to be moved to aisle seats where the head height above the window is not as visible. The MTH figures are out of production and getting hard to find.
Bob

RRDOC:

    No, I was referring to the image posted by RSJB18 of the Aristo Beep People on Page 1, not the 48 Packs of Standing and Sitting people that are in your post.

John