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N-scale Varnish Passenger Car User's Guide

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO

UPDATED 16 JANUARY 2007.
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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	Kato USA	NKP Car
ESMC 3114	Laser Horizons	Walthers
Inter-Mountain Railway		Union Station Products*

NEW LISTINGS NOTED WITH **.

SERIES	CAR TYPE	MAKER - ITEM #	NOTES
1610, 1611	P.S. diner - coach	IMR/CCS   NKP Car   USP 7600*	See Note 6
1612 - 1666	P.S. 52-seat coach	IMR/CCS   NKP Car   USP 7600*
1950 - 1957 Kitchen-series 1	P.S. twin-unit diner kitchen - dorm	**LH N-C&O7605 5   NKP Car   USP 7607F*	Used with 1973-series cars
1973 - 1980 Tavern-series 1	P.S. twin - unit diner table car	**LH N-C&O7607 5   NKP Car   USP 7605F*	Used with 1950-series cars
2500 - 2507 Club-series 2	P.S. 5 DBR - buffet lounge   B.E. observation	NKP Car
2600 - 2655 Named 3	P.S. 10 Rmt - 10 DBR	**LH N-B&O4167 5   NKP Car   USP 4167*
2800 - 2804 Named 2	P.S. 11 DBR	LH N-4168 5   NKP Car   USP 4168	See note 5.
9060	Budd RDC2	Kato R-T-R	ex-C&NW
9061	Budd RDC1	Kato R-T-R	ex-C&NW
9080, 9081	Budd RDC4	Kato R-T-R   STAND-IN 4	ex-M&StL
9082	Budd RDC3	Kato R-T-R   STAND-IN 4	ex-MKT

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:  These cars did not remain in service very long and were subsequently sold to Atlantic Coast Line, Illinois Central and New York Central (NYC cars later sold to B&O).  The following names were used on the P.S. twin unit diners, the Kitchen following the name on the kitchen - dorm cars while the Tavern followed the name on the table cars:

Botsford	Caldwell's	Gadsby	Hanover	Michie's	Postlethwait's	Swan

Note 2:  The 2500-series cars did not remain in service very long on the C&O with some were subsequently sold to the B&O.  The few cars that remained were rebuilt to dorm - dining cars (C&O 1923 - 1925), which may be possible to model using these sides, though it will be necessary to fill-in some windows.  It should be noted that there is no suitable core kit but it may be possible to start with a MRC/Rowa/Concor model, removing the sides and ends and replacing them with these sides.

The following names were assigned to the Club-series P.S. 5 DBR - buffet lounge B.E. observation cars:

Allegheny Club	Bluegrass Club	Ohio River Club	Tidewater Club
Blue Ridge Club	New River Club	Shenandoah Club	Wolverine Club

The 2800-series cars remained in use on the C&O into the late-60s, when some of the cars were sold to the Seaboard Coast Line (see the ACL - SAL - SCL page for more info.)  Cars in this series were assigned the following names:

Greenbrier	Homestead	Monticello	Mount Vernon	Natural Bridge

Note 3:  The 2600-series City of cars were purchased as a part of a very large order for passenger cars by the C&O, with many soon being sold to the Atlantic Coast Line, B&O and IC (the cars sold to ACL retained their lower side corrugation while some cars sold to the B&O and all cars sold to the IC were delivered with smooth sides).  The following is a list of cars known to have wore their C&O numbers and names:

2600 City of Alexandria	2611 City of Richmond	2627 City of Frankfort	2638 City of Clifton Forge
2601 City of Roniverte	2612 City of Waynesboro	2628 City of Lynchburg	2639 City of Logan
2602 City of Montegomery	2613 City of Staunton	2629 City of Maysville	2640 City of Beckley
2604 City of Charlottesville	2614 Virginia Hot Spring	2630 City of Newport	2641 City of Charleston
2605 Old Point Comfort	2621 City of St. Albans	2631 City of Covington	2642 Traverse City
2606 City of Newport News	2622 City of Huntington	2632 City of Portsmouth	2644 Bay City
2607 City of Pikeville	2623 City of Marion	2633 City of Alderson	2645 City of Fostoria
2608 City of Williamsburg	2624 City of Ashland	2634 City of Hinton	2646 City of Phoebus
2609 City of White Sulpher Springs	2625 City of Lexington	2636 City of Grand Rapids	2653 City of Holland
2610 Yorktown	2626 Town of Thurmond	2637 City of Hampton	2654 City of Winchester

Note 4:  These Budd RDC cars had the Phase II carbody with corrugation on the ends and vestibule doors, and the raised headlight casting.  Currently there is not a conversion kit available for modeling this version and they are mentioned only as a reference.

Note 5:  The Lazor Horizons sides for the 2600-series P.S. 10 Rmt - 6 DBR sleepers, 2800-series P.S. 11 DBR sleepers and the 1950-/1973-series twin - unit dining cars are smooth sided, but modeler's could use the Union Station Products P.S. corrugation or the M&R Texas Special EMD E7A corrugation to add this detail to the lower sides of the cars.

Note 6:  Diner - coaches 1610 and 1611 were rebuilt from 52-seat P.S. coaches with a dining room being placed in the coach section nearest the vestibule and a kitchen going into the bathroom area of the car.  No exterior changes were made during the conversion.

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