Odds of getting Lionel Wabash Passenger cars?

Kevin:

 

I am with you. It would have been nice if they included passenger cars to go with the F7s. I was surprised that they included the 18" CZ cars when Atlas has a real jump on them with accuracy and correct details. The CZ in the catalog looks like their generic 18" cars. I would have much rather seen a Blue Bird set of cars to go with the engines.

 

Who knows if they will be included in the next catalog. It is a gamble to buy the engines not knowing if they will release a set of passenger cars to go with them. The same thought as yours crossed my mind when I first looked at the catalog.

Well, there are a LOT of us who can't run 21 inch cars on our layouts - not even close. There was a good part of a Forum thread about the Atlas CZ cars that talked about that when the Atlas cars hit the street. For this reason, the 18 inchers are welcome. And even those are a stretch for many.

 

Among other reasons (and there are many, of course), a lot of folks don't live in homes with basements. In Texas, for example, basements in houses are very rare. How many people on the Forum would have room for a 30 or 40 foot long layout in their house if they didn't have a basement? Not many, that's for sure.

That's a perennial problem, wondering if there will be followup items in an upcoming catalog. You should write to Lionel about this. A scale Bluebird set would be dynamite-looking.

I agree and would buy the bluebird passenger cars in a flash!

Odds?  I'm guessing that they are better than those to win 540 Megabucks.

Does anyone else find it ironic that we modelers are looking for a set of passenger cars to go with a "F" freight engine? Or did the Wabash actually use F-units with steam heaters to haul the Bluebird?

I believe that the Wabash RR did run streamliners pulled by F7 units. It might have been the legendary "Cannonball" though. Not sure about the Bluebird.

 

I have not seen the new Wabash F7 ABBA.  However, I have a set of Lionel Wabash Madison Cars that I purchased back in 1998.  They are a dark blue in color.  I have been looking for the Lionel Wabash Steam Engine to go with these nice looking cars. 

 

One day I will do that, however, I pull these cars with the Williams EP-5 Virginian makes for a nice looking passenger set.  The numbers of these Wabash Madison Cars are: 6-19062, 6-19063, 6-19064, 6-19065.

 

Until Lionel makes a set of passenger cars to go with this F7 ABBA these cars may look good behind this Wabash F7.  I hope this helps.

 

Many thanks,

 

Billy C 

E7's, E8's, Pa's and Wabash also had some steam generator equipped GP's for passenger service.

 

Rusty

Rusty's right, no F7.  Here is a Wabash company photo of the brand new Blue Bird.

 

 

 

However, those F7's would look great hauling freight!

 

Here is a picture of a Wabash Piggyback consist.

 

 

 

Perhaps Lionel could come up with a set of PA's and Blue Bird cars to match!!!

Has any manufacturer ever made streamline Wabash passenger cars? What would be prototypical to pull behind the F7s?

MTH made Wabash streamlined passenger cars in both Premier and RailKing.  The Premier models went with PAs.  The RailKing models went with E8s and PAs.

 

Lionel made three O-27 sized in a starter set with an FT called The Blue Bird.