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head end cars for my Twin cities zepher,  Baggage (K-line) and Baggage/RPO (Williams).   The Williams car is very close to to the CBQ' rpo's .  Both cars are 18" length and are scale length for the "Q"

I have a couple redone for the Colorado and Southern (std. gau.) and Colorado Midlaand.

(you wouldn't believe the argument I got into with some ?? at a TCA meet in Denver at

that Hotel/Convention center on the north side several years ago.   The guy swore there was only narrow guage Colorado and Southern trains and roadway, when the route ran from the Texas border up into Wyoming, and was standard gauge, on its own line until getting trackage rights on the joint line.)  I figured people in the area would know the C&S was only a small partial narrow gauge, but no.  I will have to get those photos on here.(it cracks me up every time I think about it)

The earlier MTH baggage cars came with Pennsy style porthole doors. I replace them on my NYC cars with more appropriate doors using castings made from both Lionel and late model MTH cars. The baggage car has copies of MTH doors. The RPO has a Lionel copy. The Lionel doors have nicer detail but won't slide in the simple MTH door tracks.

Baggage before:

Baggage After:

RPO After:

Pete

Here's my K-Line car I repainted into a Seaboard Air Line car:

Really a decent car for the $$$.

The cars are packed away but I was able to locate these two photos showing part of them - one is a Weaver Baggage car repainted for Southern RR and the other is a MTH PRR Baggage car repainted as well

Car started out as a standard MTH RPO lettered for the B&A. Biggest mod was changing out the 6 wheel heavyweight trucks. Chassis was modified to accept Weaver's baggage car trucks. Kadee's were also added along with weathering. The interior was detailed with pouches and figures as well as some painting. The car heads my Wolverine train

either pulled by a B&A Hudson or a NYC L3 Mohawk.