Mystery PassengerTrain

JC Silver sides during the war pressed sides out of card board got a box of them somewhere. after the war the aluminum sides are greatly detailed

Interesting, I have never heard of that company, do you recall if they advertised in Model Railroader back then? Were they bought by a competitor or did they move to making HO stuff?

 Thanks for the reply.

Pete

I would like to get an example of one or more these JC's for sure, if the offer is still good; let me know details, I can mail you check, send you paypal transfer etc. whatever works. It's amazing how many kit manufacturers pop up that I've never heard of.

Again thanks for the info

Pete  

This is a great example of why I love this forum.      I've never heard of this item & yet not only does a forum know about these but actually has them.

What a great way to learn.

JC also did their models in OO. I have a 4 car passenger set I built in the 80's. A baggage, combine and two coaches.

Nothing like one of these postings to send me rooting through storage.  Since I plan

fleets of RPO cars (not happening fast), I have a couple of kits of JC RPO's. and also

RPO kits by B-C, and CSC.  Always looking for oddball kits of RPO's and cabooses.  I

have passenger car kits by that woman who ran the hobby shop in NYC during WWII,

but I don't think she did any RPO's?

Colorado-hirailer

You have my attention, I am building a survey(soft copy listing/FAQ) of post war Light weight car-body kit manufacturers, but once I get past Kasiner, MAC, Walthers, BC-K , the information pretty much plummets.

The CSC line lately is quite intriguing as I can't find much about it out there at all, I've noticed that they often get mislabeled on "da'bay" as Kasiner's but have ZERO info about CSC other than having examples of their coach and lounge cars, nothing about the rest of their offerings

(like RPO's)

Bob A's offer to set me up with a JC -Models example is exciting,  as until I even posted this thread, I had NO idea that JC-Models even did O-Scale much less the characteristics of those kits.

Pete

Actually CH, need to mention Chester in that list too, I got a GREAT post here earlier from Steinzeit that essentially listed out their fifties advert verbatim (many thanks SZ) and I believe you kicked in on that too. Chesters are weird, they're either 17/64 or bigger and as is, don't "play well" with most other kit builds except BC-K's.

Again trying to collect this all into a soft copy survey, it's frustrating to buy these kits on E-Bay without knowing what they really are, and Lord knows the sellers are often clueless too.

Pete

I have seen and think I have some Chester's.  Was not aware they were an odd scale.

Will pull the CSC and the Chesters out tomorrow and see what I have.  Kits I have

never seen are Vandenboom's, from that 1940's shop in Kansas City.  They catalogued

caboose kits I would like to get my paws on.

I have several unbuilt JC Models kits in HO in the red box Bob H mentions.  They are wonderfully accurately renditions of CNJ 72' steel coaches. Wish I could find some in O as I have yet to find a similarly accurate car in O scale.

GG1:  paging through the Bay this morning, I saw 3 O scale kits offered together,
but not cheap...I could not determine what cars they were...coach or ?, so I paged on.

so far as I know and others are way more knowledgeable than I. The first photo is a  J C Silversides passenger car note solid wood end that is nailed or glued to floor. Second photo is sad attempt at close up to show nice rivet detail, this car has aluminum sides. next photo is of a set of aluminum sides for a Heavyweight baggage combine extra long so you can custom hack it anyway you like. The twice painted hvwt baggage combine is done in some type of paper stamped in same die rivets are exact I counted. Their are also two sets of paper sides for a single window coach. Last photo is page 2 of a JC Models instruction sheet dated 1952? Heres the kicker these sides are doing nobody any good sitting in a box under my workbench in Nebraska. If you will pay postage and build it into a model and post pictures on the forum I will give it to whoever will build it Email in profile I work a lot in the summer so reply may take a day or two

Neat Photos, and now that I have my own example from Bob (again many thanks)

These are most interesting. The attached kit specifically an Observation car. These are very cool in primordial scale way, nice roof stock but check out the wood steps and side pieces, these have go back at least to early post war as the only white metal piece in the entire kit is the platform end, note the flimsy- telling the buyer he can get the platform detail railing for an additional 50 cents. I'm impressed with the crispness of the pressboard sides, thinking along GG1's thought process here (love the CNJ) this might be a good candidate for one of their commuter club lounges like the Monmouth, though as noted, will have to find or fab that platform railing as I doubt my local dealer carries that any longer. What a time machine these kits are.

8^)