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N-scale Varnish Passenger Car User's Guide
NORFOLK AND WESTERN

UPDATED 16 JANUARY 2007.
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 manufacturers featured on this page:

American Limited Models	Kato USA	NKP Car
Brass Car Sides	Lazer Horizons	Union Station Products*
Hells Gate Models	M&R Models	Walthers

NEW ITEMS NOTED WITH **.

SERIES	CAR TYPE	Maker - ITEM #	NOTES
Blue-series 1	ACF 12 Rmt - 4 DBR	LH N-UP9004   M&R 60-44   USP 9004	ex-WAB
City of Chicago   City of Cleveland	P.S. 5 DBR - buffet lounge	NKP Car	ex-NKP
City of-series	P.S. 10 Rmt - 6 DBR	**LH N-B&O4167   NKP Car   USP 4167*	ex-NKP
City of St. Marys   City of Coldwater	P.S. 18 Rmt.	**DPN1524   LH N-4068   M&R 60-118	ex-NKP, nee-Pullman
County-series 1	P.S. 10 Rmt - 6 DBR	BCS 173-533  **Walthers R-T-R	PRR pool
Western-series 1	ACF 12 Rmt - 4 DBR	LH N-UP9004   M&R 60-44   USP 9004*	ex-WAB   UP pool
125 - 134	HW baggage - express	Hell Gate Models   PRR B60b 4
491 - 492,   493 General William Mahone,   494 Fredrick J. Kimball	P.S. dining car	LH N-NW494   M&R 60-118
501, 502	P.S. coach - dorm	LH N-NW502   M&R 60-115
511, 512	P.S. 66-seat divided coach	LH N-NW511   M&R 60-116
531 - 540	P.S. 58-seat coach	LH N-NW533   M&R 60-117
581, 582	P.S. tavern - lounge observation	LH N-NW581   M&R 60-126
1610 - 1612	Budd Dome - coach	Kato R-T-R 2
1613 3	P.S. Dome - coach	Kato R-T-R 2	UP pool 3
1704 - 1709 5	P.S. 52-seat coach	NKP Car   USP 7600*	ex-NKP
1838 3	P.S. 48-seat leg-rest coach	Kato R-T-R	UP pool 3

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:  Named sleeping cars.

The N&W County-series P.S. 10 - 6 s were painted for the PRR pool service and carried the following names:

Buchanan County	McDowell County	Sussex County

The following names were used on the former Nickel Plate Road 10 - 6 cars.  It is not known if any of these cars actually received N&W paint prior to retirement.

City of Buffalo	City of Findlay	City of Kokamo	City of Lorain	City of Painesville	City of Toledo
City of Erie	City of Indianapolis	City of Lima	City of Muncie	City of Peoria	City of Wayne

The following names were used on ex-Wabash cars.  The names were retained when repainted as N&W with National- and Western-series pool cars carried the UP colors with the sublettering changing to "N&W" in red while in service on the City of St. Louis, while the Blue-series cars were repainted with Pevlar blue bodies, black roofs, white "PULLMAN" roadname and "N.&W. RY." sublettering, with no trim stripes:

Blue Boy	Blue Gazelle	Blue Knight	Western Lake	Western View
Blue Cloud	Blue Horizon	Blue Skies	Western Sunset

Note 2:  The N&W's ex-Wabash dome-coach cars can be represented using the Kato dome-coach models.  For 1610 - 1612 the Budd dome-coach can be used but for the models to be truly accurate the truck cut-outs need to be made into the skirting.  For 1613, the Kato smooth sided dome would be suitable.

Note 3:  N&W sleepers in the Western series, dome - leg-rest coach 1613 and leg-rest coach 1838 were part of UP's City of St. Louis pool and as such were painted in UP colors.  The sleepers were lettered with red "PULLMAN" lettering on the letterboard and small "N&W" sublettering, while 1613 was painted with red N&W lettering (after that train was discontinued it was repainted with a Pevlar blue carbody, silver roof and yellow N&W lettering but with no trim stripe).  It is possible that 1838 was also repainted with the same lettering (unconfirmed), and after the train was discontinued, it was rebuilt into Track Inspection Car #800.

Note 4:  N&W baggage - express 125 - 134 were built to the same plans as PRR B60b baggage - express, including the use of the unusual PRR 2D-P5 trucks.

Note 5:  When repainted to N&W only the blue stripe of the letterboard was painted.  One car, 1705, received a tuscan red letterboard stripe and gold lettering while the other cars received a Pevlar blue letterboard stripe.

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