"...where'd you get those PEEPers?"

I believe Walthers cataloged them as "Oscars", but that may just have been one name.  They may have had names for each type.  

Big Jim,

   Man I got to agree with you, those PEEPer's are fantastic, would like to add them to my Christmas layout, no doubt about it!

PCRR/Dave

I have the PRR set an my favorite is the observation car.

Picked up the Santa Fe units when my dealer got them in.  Deciding if I want to grab another set of the Baggage/Coach pair that one dealer still seems to have available to make the ABA look a little better with more train behind it.

Seems to run well enough, I'm a happy camper for the price I paid.

Didn't the walther models come with a girl in the shower? That is what I always heard in the ads...

Walthers offered the Oscar and the Piker, one was an observation and in HO.

The "girl in the shower" is printed on the cardboard used to make the wall in their Pullman interior kits, think I've still got on in the basement.

Scotie

Yeah, there you go...Oscar & Piker.

Better let Hotwater know! He models the NYC, I'm sure he'd be thrilled with these bite size passenger cars!

The WEST POINT obs looks as if the Navy ate most of it during the Army-Navy game!

  I have the Walther's PRR set. When I was running HO, I liked them behind my Mantua PRR 4-4-0. I grabbed the Santa Fe Peeps when I picked up the Santa Fe Beef A-A set. I really get a kick out of them, but I do with they coupled more closely.

I picked up an undecorated coach/obs set. I always liked the Walthers set though they were from before my time in the hobby.  I'm happy with my Oscar and Piker. 

I think I'll get a jumper to run from between the two cars for more constant lighting. Since they will always run together I think a drawbar will help the spacing thing. 

Yes, the Walthers Picker and Oscar came in HO and O scale kits, if I recall correctly. I remember them being something like $2.95 when I was a kid in the '70s. This was about the same time as the original Atlas O scale which is why I became a closet O scaler those many years ago. Finally sold off most of my HO stuff in the last few years to replace it with O scale and On30.

I wonder if those old diecast passenger car ends are still available? It would be kinda neat to build some Pikers and Oscars myself.

Those old Walthers passenger car ends and those metal sides, easily cut with tin snips for kit bashing, can be found in the O scale shows.  (as can the Pikers and Oscars kits, as well as the Sierra shorty coach and combine kits from Walthers, which are my favorites)  I have seen old photos of a Kentucky short line that used shorty coaches like the Sierra RR's.

We still have a good supply of these,

http://www.nassauhobby.com/Trains-O-Gauge-RMT-PEEP/

Charlienassau posted:

We still have a good supply of these,

http://www.nassauhobby.com/Trains-O-Gauge-RMT-PEEP/

I got mine from you Charlie.

I had a half day off and I made a nice LIRR train trip from Penn Station to get these and a powered B mini F3 unit for a side project. Thank you.

 They also look to be the perfect set of cars to pull behind your K-Line 4-6-6T loco.

What a great idea! As you say, perfect. 

The only flaw with the RMT sets was that they didn't make extra coaches as single cars or two-car sets. I bugged Walter a couple of times about this but apparently he wasn't interested. Too bad, I think he would have made money offering extra coaches. The coaches were only in sets with a baggage car or observation, so it was hard to put together a train longer than four cars unless you wanted a whole bunch of extra baggage cars. I managed to pick up a few extra coaches in online auctions or by selling individual baggage cars.

It's a pity the Peeps and Beefs were never offered in Milwaukee orange and maroon Hiawatha colors. I have an extra set that one of these days I will repaint.