T4TT posted:JTRAIN,
Lionel's tooling for regular dome is not a decent representation of the Pullman regular dome car (500) offered in the 21" Passenger Car 2 Pack #2?Otherwise, it sounds like the Lionel tooling adequately represents Budd build passenger cars? Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I am very interested in this set, but I am even more interested in accuracy to the prototype. Based on the web page (and that is not reliable) it looks like the cars offered are as follows.
Lionel SKU Name/Number Type Builder 1927010 3513 Baggage Budd 3136???? ? ? Pine Gorge 10-6 Sleeper Budd Navajo Sleeper-Observation Budd 1927020 3139 52 Seat Chair Car Budd 1489 Diner Budd 1927030 550 Big Dome-Lounge & Crew Dormitory Budd 1927040 Pine Bell 10-6 Sleeper Budd 500 Dome-Lounge Pullman
Based on the illustrations, it looks like you could put together a pretty accurate shortened version of the San Francisco Chief with those cars. The Budd "regular" dome is not accurate for Santa Fe, but the full dome is. All of the other cars would be accurate for the prototype, except for the observation car, since the San Francisco Chief normally did not run with one, but the Budd observation "Navajo" was a Santa Fe car, and it could conceivably have been run on the San Francisco Chief, at least it would look good. I think it might have been an 80' car (20" scale length). The only thing missing would be a couple of other types of sleepers, but they would be pullman built (different side corrugations and smooth roofs, so different tooling).
