Which passenger cars go with the new "what if" Niagara engine. They provide a large selection of mail cars and no passenger cars.
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Who 'They'?
John is right, Jim. Not sure what you’re referring to. I thought you might be talking about the fantasy Hiawatha scheme by Lionel, but that’s a Northern, not a Niagara, so I might have missed the model you’re thinking of.
I have considered the same thing...I do have the hard to find k line set you mentioned and am hoping it’s a good match. My other idea is to swap trucks on the 2rail brass nyc Smithsonian cars and make them 3 rail.
jim911 posted:Which passenger cars go with the new "what if" Niagara engine.
Assuming you are discussing the Lionel fantasy NYC gray Niagara, it doesn't really matter WHAT passenger cars you put behind that model, since the New York Central never had any "gray Niagara" steam locomotives
They provide a large selection of mail cars and no passenger cars.
Since the model is a fantasy, and there are lots of NYC gray and two-tone gray passenger cars available, or maybe even the Empire State Express set, what fantasy passenger cars were you thinking about?
The gray Niagara tender is painted in the 1940 20th Century scheme with white lines separating the dark gray stripe from the light gray body. GGD made 21" 1940 cars, MTH made 18" cars and Lionel made 15" cars but only in the 1938 scheme to match their Dreyfuss Hudson. The MTH cars will be the easiest to find and some dealers may have them new. Be aware that MTH and 3rd rail made both the 1938 scheme with blue stripes and 1940 cars. Depends on how picky you are. Fact is the real Niagaras would have pulled every type of passenger cars that NYC had at the time including green heavyweights, TT Gray Heavyweights, TT Gray streamliners, stainless streamliners, etc.
That said its unlikely the paint will match anyway.
Pete
