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N-scale Varnish Passenger Car User's Guide
AMERICAN ORIENTAL EXPRESS
Click here to visit Fred Klein's excellent N-scale Passenger Car website  
The following are cars that can be accurately modeled currently in N-scale using available car sides, kits and R-T-R models.  The list below are recommendations only, based on the best information that I have on-hand.  If you know of additions or corrections that need to be made, or know of suitable decals for lettering these cars, please email me by Clicking Here.

Below is a list of links for the manufacturers featured on this page:

American Limited Models	Des Plaines Hobbies	M&R Models
Brass Car Sides	Lazer Horizons	Union Station Products

SERIES	CAR TYPE	Maker - ITEM #	NOTES
Copper Canyon	Budd Great Dome	BCS 173-527	ex-AMTK, nee-GN
Glacier Park	ACF dome - lounge	BCS 173-526¹	ex-UP
Istanbul	LW 7 BR - 2 DR sleeper with Chef de   Train office	DPN 1521   M&R 60-51   USP 4069M*	ex-SP 4 DBR - 4 Comp - 2 DR
Monte Carlo	LW 8 BR - 2 Dorm room sleeper	M&R 60-124   USP 4167*	ex-C&O 10 - 6 sleeper
New Orleans	LW Budd Great Dome	BCS 173-527	ex-AMTK, nee-GN
New York	LW sleeper - lounge observation	LH N-NY4126²	ex-NYC Sandy Creek
Paris	LW 7 BR - 2 DR sleeper with Chef de   Train office	DPN 1521   M&R 60-51   USP 4069M*	ex-SP 4 DBR - 4 Comp - 2 DR
Portland	P.S. 9 BR - Presidential Suite sleeper	USP 4168*	ex-C&O 11 DBR sleeper
Washington	LW 8 BR - 2 dorm room sleeper	M&R 60-124   USP 4167*	ex-C&O 10 - 6 sleeper
Zurick	LW dining car	M&R 60-141   USP 6200*	ex-UP cafe - lounge

Abbreviations:

	A.C.F. - American Car and Foundry	DBR - double bedroom	obs. - observation
	BE - blunt end	DR - drawing room	P.S. - Pullman - Standard
	Comp - compartment	Dup - duplex	Sect - section
	Dorm - dormitory	HW - heavyweight	SR - single room

* - It should be noted that the Union Station Products are Craftsman-level kits.  Some clean-up of parts and assembly is required, and care must be exercised when assembling these sides because of the delicate parts.

Note 1:  While Brass Car sides offer sides to create this car there is no suitable core kit available at this time and it is only mentioned as a matter of record.

Note 2:  While, at present, there is no observation car core kit that is suitable, it may be possible to use a Kato smooth - sided observation car as the basis for creating this car, with the original sides cut from the shell and the new sides added on.

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