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N-scale Varnish Passenger Car User's Guide

SEABOARD COAST LINE

UPDATED 14 JAN 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 links for manufacturers featured on this page:

American Limited Models	Inter-Mountain Railway	NKP Car
Brass Car Sides	Lazer Horizons	Union Station Products*
Eastern Seaboard Models Corp.	M&R Models	Wheels of Time

NEW LISTINGS ARE IN GRAY.

SERIES	CAR TYPE	MAKER - ITEM #	NOTES
4493 - 4522	HW baggage - express	WoT 110	ex-ACL
4538 - 4555	HW baggage - express	WoT 110	ex-ACL
5031, 5032	Budd baggage - dorm - coach	USP 6001*	ex-SAL
5250 - 5253	P.S. 52-seat coach	NKP Car   USP 7600	ex-ACL, nee-NKP
5254 - 5263	P.S. 52-seat coach	IMR/CCS   NKP Car   USP 7600	ex-SAL, nee-C&O
5265 - 5271	P.S. 52-seat coach - lounge	USP 7650*	to SCL
5450 - 5468, 5479, 5480	P.S. 54 - seat coach	USP 7593*	ex-ACL
5950 - 5958, 5961   Named-series 4	P.S. 36-seat diner	USP 7592*	ex-ACL
5996 Port Tampa   5998 Winter Park	P.S. Twin-unit diner table car	LH N-C&O7605   NKP Car   USP 7605F*	ex-ACL, nee-C&O   SEE NOTE 7.
5997, 5999	P.S. Twin-unit diner kitchen - dorm	LH N-C&O7607   NKP Car   USP 7607F*	ex-ACL, nee-C&O   SEE NOTE 7.
6100 - 6105 Named-series 1	P.S. 11 DBR	USP 4198A*	ex-SAL, Same names
6107 - 6111 Named 2	P.S. 11 DBR	NKP Car	ex-C&O
6200 - 6205 Bird-series 1	A.C.F. 7 DBR - 2 DR	USP 3091*	ex-ACL
6400 Evergreen,   6401 Okefenokee	P.S. 4 Rmt - 5 DBR - 1 Comp - 4 Sect	USP 4196*	ex-ACL
6500 - 6502 Beach-series 1	P.S. 5 DBR - buffet Sun Roomlounge	USP 4202* 5	ex-SAL
6520 - 6522 Named-series 1	P.S. 5 DBR - 2 Comp - 2 DR	USP 4201*	ex-SAL
6603 - 6608 Beach-series 1	A.C.F. 6 DBR - bar lounge	USP 3090*	ex-ACL
6610 - 6614, 6617 - 6620,   6623, 6625, 6626   Named-series 1	P.S. 10 Rmt - 6 DBR	ESMC 3114   USP 4140A* 6	ex-SAL   STAND-IN
6629 - 6653 County-series 1	P.S. 10 Rmt - 6 DBR	ESMC 3114   USP 4140B*	ex-ACL
6654 - 6657 County-series 1	P.S. 10 Rmt - 6 DBR	**LH N-B&O4167 7   NKP Car   USP 4167	ex-ACL, nee-C&O
Island-series 4	P.S. 21 Rmt	USP 4156*	to SCL, same names
River-series 4	P.S. 4 Comp - 4 DR	B.C.S. 173-516   L.H. N-NY4069B   M&R 60-26 or 60-33-2	ex-NYC   ex-4 Comp - 4 DBR - 2 DR   to SCL , same names

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:  Sleeper cars of both the ACL and SAL carried names.  The following is a list of names used for various series of sleepers, indexed by SCL numbers:

6100 - 6105.

Avon Park	Hialeah	Ocala	Sebring	Tallahassee	Venice

6200 - 6205.

Blue Bird	Honey Bird	Humming Bird	Jay Bird	Rice Bird	Surf Bird

6500 - 6502.

Miami Beach	Palm Beach	Hollywood Beach

6520 - 6522.

Boca Grande	Clearwater	Fort Lauderdale

6603 - 6608.

Myrtle Beach	Ponte Verda Beach	Virginia Beach
Pass-A-Grill Beach	Sea Island Beach	Wrightsville Beach

6610 - 6614, 6617 - 6620, 6623, 6625, 6626.

Atlanta	Columbia	Norfolk	Portsmouth	Richmond
Birmingham	Jacksonville	Orlando	Raleigh	Savannah
Charlotte		Petersburg		Tampa

6629 - 6653.

Alachua County	Colleton County	Glynn County	Nassau County	Prince George County
Beauford County	Cumberland County	Harnett County	Northampoton County	Putnam County
Berkeley County	Darlington County	Hillsborough County	Oscoela County	Seminole County
Chatham County	Duval County	Marion County	Pinellas County	Sumter County
Clarendon County	Edgecombe County	Nash County	Polk County	Ware County

6654 - 6657:

Bryan County	Dellon County	Halifax County	Volusia County

Note 2:  These former C&O sleepers operated under S.C.L. in C&O paint with SCL heralds and a silver nameplate being mounted to the letterboard area.  Photos of Mt. Vernon displaying this paint scheme can be seen by clicking the following links:
SCL Mount Vernon - aisle side            SCL Mount Vernon - bedroom side
These cars carried the following names on both the C&O and SCL:

Greenbrier	Homestead	Monticello	Mount Vernon	Natural Bridge

Note 3:  Two series of ACL sleepers can not be accounted for in the renumbering to SCL, the Island-series and the -series (ex-NYC) cars.  For the names of those series please see the ACL listings.

Note 4:  All ACL dining cars were identified by their names, with numbers only being assigned after the creation of SCL.  Below is a listing of car names used on these cars and the SCL number assigned to these cars (Cordele wrecked and scrapped in 1957):

5950 Atlanta	5952 LeGrange	5955 Talladega	5958 Tarboro
5951 Birmingham	5953 Greenville	5956 Plant City	5961 Naples
- - - - Cordele	5954 Moultrie	5957 Fitzgerald

Note 5:  In addition to the USP car sides you will also need some way of creating the roof mounded windows.  If you have a suggestion about how to do these, please email me using the link above.

Note 6:  The SAL's PS 10-6 sleepers were unique among the many that were built, as they were built with Budd-styled roofs to better match the various Budd-built cars that had already been rostered (a set of A.C.F.-built 10-6 sleepers also featured matching corrugation on not only the roof but on the letterboard area also).  It is left up to the modeler to determine if such would be used and how to add such a detail.  If you have a suggestion about how to do this, please email me using the link above.  These cars were renumbered for SCL 6610 - 6614, 6617 - 6620, 6623, 6625, 6626.

Note 7: The L.H. and U.S.P. sides require the use of either the U.S.P. P.S. corrugation or the M.&R. Texas Special EMD E7A corrugation, which needs to be placed below the window, for these sides to be accurate.

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