Wasatch Model Company O Scale Union Pacific Passenger Cars

From the last session

Great pics as always. Superb carbodies and undersides,do the cars have interiors?

Thanks for sharing. Those cars are beautiful.  Fantastic photography as well.

Your welcome guys. Educating the community is very import to the hobby of what has been manufactured.

Exquisite. Thanks for posting.

Now THOSE are stunning!!!  WOW!!!

 

Alan

Outstanding! Thanks for posting.

Did you touch the dome?

 

They are beautiful cars, the underframes are packed with detail.

Those are some of the nicest UP passenger cars I've ever saw.

 

Fantastic!

Beautiful cars indeed, too bad they put all the detail underneath where you normally won't even see it and then left the interiors sparse and empty. Will cost a lot of money to put interior seating and detail into these. Recently saw a set of HO passenger cars with absolutely gorgeous detailed interiors, very true to life with even etched glass behind the seats. If they can do it in HO, why not O gauge?

Robert,

These models can be finished with full interiors that far exceed anything manufactured -  the grandmaster your talking about Sam Model's interiors produced for Coach Yard or Division Point can be exceeded by the right modeler.  The interiors Dan Pantera builds for these models are incredible. China patterns on the plates and silverware.

Sam Model produced these fine HO models for us this last Fall:

http://www.divisionpoint.com/s...po-flyer-prospector/

Surely, the most beautiful passenger cars I have ever seen.

With the right weathering and scenery and photographed outdoors on a diorama, one would have a very difficult time determining whether these were models or real trains.

 

Erik, many thanks for taking the time to photograph and post these.

 

So . . . . . a set in O would be $25,000 ?

 

Scrappy

Erik,

 

Definitely appreciate you sharing the photos!  Without a doubt some of the best passenger cars available!

 

What era are the cars? 

Those are very nice.

I remember seeing the Wasatch cars on the cover of an O scale magazine in the 90's.  I think it was an article about the Denver O Scale Club's layout.  That was a defining moment for me.  I've gone from 3 rail to 3RS to 2 rail.  Those cars are spectacular!

 

Getting to know Roger a bit has also been a treat.

Very good reason, I imported these cars in 1992 and 1993 and while they set a new standard at that time trying to get the Interiors installed in Korea would have been next to impossible.  It just wasn't being done in 1992 and 1993.  Dan Pantera has installed interiors and lights in most of my personal cars and many many cars owned by others.  The UP cars never had skirts so all the underbody details were important and necessary to give the car a "real" Look which is what I was trying to do.  I wanted passenger cars that looked like the real ones had been shrunk to "O" scale.  And you can see the underbody details as the cars sit on the rails, the car would be naked without them.

 

I took most of the photos in that article including the cover photo.  I still have a lot of copies of that issue.  I'm not 20% the photographer that Erik is.  I really appreciate Erik taking and posting his photos of my cars here.  Thanks Erik !!!  Erik is also one great artist producing some great artwork.

 

Roger

 

I managed to stealth the CWS world series executive train the other night shot 436 pics all interior shots of the domes and dining service car and lounge. was doing well until trying to get back under the fence. UP POPO swatted me wanted my camera I finally gave them the memory card. Waiting till the heat is off and will post photos, didn't say which memory card. Good thing cards are small, All good things in all good time

Forum Members,

These cars are mine and I have never seen there equal in any scale.

Erik took these fantastic photos and they are fine examples of his work-heart and soul- he has owned a train of them in the past and featured the train many times on the DSMR in prototypical fashion - so in spirit and in photo production, these cars are his as well!

Roger imported these - so they are his cars in his initial drive and love of prototype as well -and the research in these cars describes a text book, true love of trains! 

I just bought them because I love the UP as one of my roads and model their passenger trains after having ridden on one to Cheyenne from Denver- so the spirit of this set caught me as well!

I would sell these cars to the right person at the right price before taking them to any online Bay or a power selling distributor or store. I want someone to be moved by them as we have been. I simply cannot hold on to the massive levels of brass and plastic I have right now and have to make hard decisions.

Please contact me if you are interested in what I consider to be a quintessential part of O Scale history and THE lead item for any Union Pacific Collector/Modeler.

Rick Trinkle

TrinkleTrains

http://www.TrinkleTrains.com

1-719-465-4354 - anytime.  

Nice post Rick!

Stop in and see the review I added to the COSM website.

http://coloradooscale.org/club-news/

Outstanding cars, I assume they did not come in factory paint and any cars for sale painted would have been done by owners or custom painters and may or may not have interiors added.

always enjoy seeing these cars anytime they are at shows, on layouts.  just fantastic models... thanks for sharing!

Michael Hill and family (don't remember the father's name) formerly of Hill's Hobby had an 8 or 9 car set available at the March meet for $12K.  They were still available at the end of the meet and I think there is a reasonable chance they are still available; if someone is so inclined. 

They do seem to be coming out of the woodwork these days. I held my breath for a decade for just one let alone a set. And now it's like they are falling from the sky!

I made preparations to move into a different era because I couldn't find any of them.

Thanks for sharing Richard

Erik

http://www.brassmodeltrains.com/product_p/10291.htm

Yeah,

 

The same was true for the Lionel Smithsonian and FAM and to a lesser extent the PRB cars.  When it rained it poured... and then were gone.  Probably for another 10-20 years.

 

What I find interesting is that they were all mid 1990s cars and the most expensive of the bunch were overall the weakest of the bunch.