Milwaukee Road Passenger Cars Question

Unless you are planning to lengthen your MTH passenger cars to a "scale length" of 21" long, you are pretty much out of luck, especially since the MTH Premier passenger cars are sort of "generic", and probably do NOT match ANYTHING the Milwaukee Road ever had.

You may want to check out some of the previous scale length Milwaukee passenger car options from Weaver Models. They seem to show up for sale at shows,etc. and were rather accurate renditions at a good price.

K- Lines were pretty nice, but I think they got the Maroon wrong.

Both the orange and the maroon on the K-Line streamliners were too dark. Nonetheless, the K-Line cars are good looking, scale size and have a generally prototypical appearance. The biggest error is the trucks on the dome cars; the real ones had six-wheel trucks. If you want scale size in a diesel-era Milwaukee Road streamliner, K-Line is your only option unless you want to look for old Walthers kits.

The last Weaver steam-era streamlined cars, which they labeled the "morning train," did not have the green windows and if I recall correctly they do have interiors. These were the arched-window cars that were built for the original 1935 Hiawatha. These cars look good only with the Weaver 4-4-2 Hiawatha locomotives. The paint clashes badly with Lionel's version of the Hiawatha Atlantic, and the plain orange sides were repainted when the railroad changed to the maroon and orange scheme so they would not be correct with a 4-6-4 or a diesel.