Reply to "Lets See Your Passenger Cars"

Too true, @GG1 4877

I always thought the weight problems of those early GGD cars results mainly from the fact that the car ends are heavy solid brass castings. One day, I intend to replace them with plastic parts. One day. . .

I had forgotten about sending that car out to you. It was worth it. I consider my set of Beauty Queens the best of the early 3Rd Rail E7s thanks in large part to John Martin's efforts to make sure that the decoration was accurate. Interestingly, Lionel seems to have gotten the dark gray stripe wrong on their new Beauty Queens. It doesn't zag down at the B end to match the window line of a trailing train.  Perhaps they thought the straight through look on an A-B-A would look better.

Here, by the way, is the Club Car car or my remodeled set. The small window toward the left center of the car serves the barber shop -

Cheers,

           - Mike