UP Passenger Cars

I was wondering the same.

Since the UP passenger car fleet are of a specific manufacture, which are difficult to model, there have not been any scale length models produced for the O Scale 3-Rail Market. Sunset/3rd Rail/Golden Gate Depot has been struggling with producing CORRECT UP, scale length passenger cars for this reason. If Golden Gate Depot produces CORRECT UP passenger cars, they would NOT be able to offer those cars for any other railroad, and therein lies the problem.

Thank you for the response. Thats unfortunate, I would think a set of correct excursion cars would be an excellent seller. Maybe one day.

I was in CHALLENGER dome last weekend, and it seems to be an unusual dome.  UP, I think, tended to buy alumium bodied passenger cars.

And UP tended to have smooth sided passenger cars.

Kemtron, Russ Briggs, and Wasatch made really good UP passenger cars.  Converting to 3-rail is actually easier, unless you need giant swinging couplers, in which case you blow the value of these cars to near zero with a Dremel grinder.  K-Line made perfectly adequate UP cars for cheap, and that is what I use.  They are generic, but only an expert would know.  And they do not need conversion.  I run mine behind truly scale PAs and Challengers.

My 2009 MTH DAP UP passenger cars are a bit nicer than the regular 2011 MTH UP passenger cars I bought to go with the DAP set. The regular cars have an unfinished molded gray plastic roof with molded grab irons while the DAP cars have a nice glossy gray finish on the roof with separately applied metal grab irons on the roof. 

there are hundreds of correct passenger cars for the UP in HO scale, so why is it so hard to get good passenger cars in O scale not only for the UP but other railroads too. 

As has been stated MANY times before, the HO market base is MUCH larger than O Scale! Thus, we all will have to wait for Golden Gate Depot or Atlas O to offer those "one off" types of prototypical SCALE LENGTH, passenger cars.

>>.My 2009 MTH DAP UP passenger cars are a bit nicer than the regular 2011 MTH UP passenger cars I bought to go with the DAP set.<<

I run the Challenger with a set of MTH Premier UP Madison passenger cars. Probably not prototypical but here's the road specific baggage car. Every car is marked Challenger.   Looks great behind the big engine.  

Joe  

Although the cars are not scale, Williams 80 foot aluminum cars make a nice train.  Here are photos of them running on the G&O garden railroad yesterday.  The engines are Atlas FMs.