Weaver Reading Crusader passenger cars...

I see them on eBay but not too often.

Reading stuff is very rare to almost never to show up for long on any auction site. Most people keep the Reading Company passenger cars. If you want the Reading Company you must be a serious buyer.

Try seeing if Train World has something in Reading Company, as that is where I purchased a few Lionel passenger cars, #15101 and 15104.

I just purchased a K-Line Reading Crusader car and it's a keeper.

Lee Fritz

Thanks Lee....what I am looking for is the articulated set that is designed like the prototype to operate with the locomotive....

Anybody see one that is available??

Thanks,

Alan

I know it's not 'correct' but I made my set by painting K-Line cars and my own decals. Not 100% correct but works for me. For a scale Weaver loco investing, and thats what I'd call it at those prices, my be worth it. Show us pics when you get it PLEZ!

Weaver CRUSADER cars turn up at York and at meets in the Reading area. Meets in the Hamburg Field House (June, July, September) and in Allentown (First Frost and Spring Thaw) come to mind.

Alan,

In real life the Crusader cars were not articulated. I have the Weaver locomotive and 5 cars. I have a few pictures of the original train and it looks just like the one that Weaver produced.

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA 

Eric...you are absolutely correct.  I don't know why I referred to them being articulated!!!  My bad.  Anyway, I guess what I was trying to say is that I am trying to find the ones Weaver made that go with the locomotive.  I believe the end cars of the set were designed to fit into a matching shaped area of the tender.

Any chance that I could borrow your cars for a few decades??  LOL!!

Thanks,

Alan

Thanks for the info about the Reading passenger cars. Maybe I can ask my sister to go, as she lives in Reading, and purchase something for me and I will send her the money.

Lee Fritz

The Weaver cars are full length.  K-Line produced a Crusader loco and passenger car set for Boscov's Department Stores many years ago.

http://www.legacykline.com/app...amp;p_oem_sku=K-1925

It's cars were 15 inches long.

Jan

You might give Nicholas Smith in Broomall a call-that's where i got my set some years ago.

Borrow? No problem! I purchased my Weaver Crusader set at a train auction and after converting the loco to PS-2, I removed the 2 sockets in each car with their large bulbs and replaced these with overhead lighting strips. BTW there is no interior in these cars, but the windows are heavily tinted and I'm told that as built, the original cars had heavily tinted windows. There is one remaining original observation car which is now located at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. 

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA 

Eric....sounds like you did a nice modification for the lighting.  I had an e-mail from someone here on the forum that offered his set with a similar lighting upgrade...for $800.00.  This seems a little expensive and certainly is out of my budget.

Alan

For comparison, there's a 2-rail set of new cars and engine on *bay for $2500.  The listing says that they only made 43 locomotives in 2-rail -- probably fewer passenger cars.  I don't think that they made only 75 or 150 3-rail engines.  Those numbers are typical of Weaver production.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/READIN...;hash=item257e513a10

Jan

Thanks Jan...those have been listed several times with no takers.....just a little pricey I think.

Alan