Phoenix Railways Aluminum Passenger Cars

I'm unfamiliar with the brand.  Could you give us a manufacturing era, and maybe a photo?

 I, too, had never heard of Phoenix until I saw a set of Chesapeake & Ohio cars for sale on eBay.  Here's what the C&O version looks like.

Bob, how long are your cars?

- Mike

Thanks for that photo Mike.  I have the C & O set with an extra coach.  The observation car has a squared off back with center door mounted LED.  I pull them with my former Lionel now converted to PS-2 Yellowbelly Hudson.  Guys, the Phoenix cars are good cars.

They sure look very good.

Brian, I know you have the Yellowbelly.  Try to find a set, they are great.

Marty:

I was thinking the same thing when you made your comment. They would look great behind the Yellow Belly. I will post this on the Want To Buy Board.

If anyone out there has a set of C&O cars, let me know.

PeterA, I thank you for the fascinating information.  It is so interesting how many small niche suppliers there have been over the years.  Those do look like beautiful cars.

Brian, I had a few guys email me and asked to see the observation car.

Marty:

You made a very good decision to pick up this set. How many cars do you have?

7    They look better in person.  I would love to get the tooling as these would be smoking hot today.  I saw an SP set and should have jumped on it.  I always keep my eyes open at York.  Someday I will be walking around and it will be there.  As you know, I have a few passenger cars but prize these cars the most. 

Please check this video of the Yellowbelly and Phoenix cars.http://youtu.be/5mae0gwMG-k

Marty....that is a very nice car.  What length is it?

Thanks,

Alan

The cars are 18 inches.

Those are neat cars!  That is two new companies that I just learned about in the last month!  

Here is a picture of a pullman from Congress Tool and Die, 22" long and 4.5 lbs! 

It must have been Bob Herrick I met set up once in the main building at the fairgrounds in the Wheaton  (Chicago) show.  Whoever it was implied that he was not well.  The cars there were offered by a little shop that was not a train shop, north of there in the Chicago area, but that shop set up in the same building, at a table right

next to that of Jim Flynn, a well known Marx collector and dealer, who developed the

"New Marx".   I ordered at least two cars made up for the D&RGW Yampa Valley Mail, including an RPO and, I think, an observation (I put them away and haven't dug them out for some time).

The Yampa Valley Mail was a train that ran up into north central Colorado, usually

powered by one Alco PA, but other power was seen, and a couple of passenger

cars, but more if required.  I later bought some unlettered Phoenix cars off eBay

when his partner was selling them out.