Hot: Now that I think of it, that tooling for the scale streamlined cars, did not go to Bachmann. Williams already owned their tooling for those extruded cars. Their rear end design was for a conventional "boat tail" obs. Okay, so who did pick up the old K-Line passenger car tooling? K-Line used to make them in 15", 18" and 21" lengths to suit all users.
They also had done a very credible job of making the Milwaukee Road's Skytop Lounge car ends. In fact, they replicated the Skytop Parlor cars on the outside and tried to represent the Skytop Pullmans on the inside. That made the cars incorrect for either use. I tried to point that out to Maury Klein at the time, but he just ignored me and said no one would know the difference. When I got my car, I gutted it and installed a correct interior with individual rotating seats and no bedroom partitions. These cars would also be do a re-run once of these days.
Paul Fischer
