Heavy Weight Pullman Cars For Old Rivets

Lionel has cataloged a set of PRR heavy weights which can make up the Broadway Limited. Maybe I ill go that route.

Bob C.

Bob I like the Lionel 18 in Heavyweights. Golden Gate has also done the 12 section and 8 section 21 inch Pullmans in Tuscan which could work to augment the train. Another choice might be Fleet of Modernism scheme lightweights which would work for a 1938 version of the Broadway. I believe Golden Gate, MTH and K Line had 18in (MTH and K Line) and 21 inch (Golden Gate and K Line?) have made these cars and you may be able to find those on the secondary Market. Of the 18in Heavyweights, Lionels cars in my opinion were probably the nicest of those that were made.

All kinds. Walthers kits  but you have to build them

Don't forget the ggd p70 cars and the sunset p54 coaches too!

Not wanting to build any kits, I find there is not much available to put together a Congressional Limited Express (CLE) using scale length (80') HW cars.  There were no sleepers on the CLE, only coaches, parlor cars, diner, and obs (the time between DC and NY city was less than 4 hours).  GGD P70s are correct for some/maybe most of the coaches, but I don't know of any correct non-P70 coaches available (unless they were the P54 cars).  Get the GGD PRR HW diner/obs two pack for those cars, but they are very hard to find.  The missing link for this consist are parlor cars; I don't think any 80' HW parlor cars have been made (again, no kits).

The minor problem with the GGD cars is they have the 3-stripe paint scheme.  PRR's HWs did not start to have the striping until the late 40s.

If there were some 80' parlor cars available, I would consider buying the DGLE/5-strip version of Lionel's 4800 for this train.

ADDED:  If you are looking for 18" cars, Lionel's Red Arrow set (6-25635) and commuter car set (6-15554 and 6-15558) would make a good looking no-stripe heavy weight train.  The commuter cars even have 4-wheel trucks like the P70s.