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New York Central Interchanged Cars
Revised 1-5-08
Baggage Express:
NYC 9118, blt. AC&F, 74', O. H. Borsum photo, Joe Shine collection, from The Warbonnet, 2/97.
NYC 8605 HW baggage was in a consist list through Lubbock in 1957.
The Rutland Car Shops produce a baggage car kit based on a series of 60'-6" steel baggage cars built for the Rutland and the New York Central by ACF in 1914. The NYC class G-74 version (kit # RCS- NYC G74) includes both the wood panel doors and the steel panel baggage doors used on the NYC cars and thin-film decal lettering for paint schemes used from 1911 to 1960. ($55 including cast resin brake gear and underbody detail and Kadee couplers, but no trucks. Rutland Car Shops, P. O .Box 64947, Burlington, VT, 05406-4947.
Converted Troop Sleepers, by 1953.
George Sisk photo, Kansas City, from troop sleeper.
NYC 9443 with internal and end doors.
NYC 9386, A. Dean Hale collection, from The Warbonnet, 2/97.
Santa Fe All the Way, Vol. 1, p.73, has a nice 1963 view at Kansas City of #7 Fast Mail with NYC Express from a troop sleeper, and REA Reefer.
A detail drawing including underbody appears in the May, 1991, Model Railroader.
In HO, Cannonball Car Shops (http://www.mrrwarehouse.com) makes plastic kits for the sleepers and express car conversions ($26.95). Central Hobby Supply (http://www.centralhobby.com) makes etched-brass/resin kits for the NYC-style troop sleepers-turned-express cars ($45). Walther's released these cars in a variety of paint schemes in 2007. Precision makes some in O scale for $341 each.
