Jim,
I too am a fan of the Pullman Bradley cars as i run mostly passenger equipment on my Not-So-Great Eastern including the NH and LV. I'm limited by 042" curves; hence i made my own. The toughest part were the windows. I was able to find junker American Flyer P-B coaches at train shows for no more than $6 each, and often would sell the frames, trucks, couplers, or whatever was left after i removed the body, back to the same flyer guy i had bought the car from for a few bucks! It took 1.5 cars to get enough window strips to do one 13" KLine coach. i cut the windows out of the flyer cars in strips using a very fine toothed band saw running slowly. Then grafted the window strips into my "donor" coaches. Didn't do the proper end slope to the roofs as i couldn't figure out how to make all those compound curves. I made 5 or 6 of these (one LV and the rest NH including a grille car. On one NH car (#8524 and barely visible in the photo)i added end markers and a Tomar drumhead "Merchants Ltd." in the rear passage door.) The cars were painted with Scalecoat II NH Hunter Green from a rattle can. The cars show differently because of differences in the room lighting. Also they have since been upgraded to LED's.
jackson
I too am modifying PB cars. However I am starting with Weaver PB and eliminating the middle bar and making picture windows.
I am trying to figure out how to cut out a few windows and graft on other side to make a diner.
Your solution interested me, but did you cut both sides at one time or did you figure out how to cut only one side?
mikeg
