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N-scale Varnish Passenger Car User's Guide
 

SPOKANE PORTLAND AND SEATTLE

UPDATED 31 DECEMBER 2006

Click here to visit Fred Klein's excellent N-scale Passenger Car website  

The S.P.&S. operated through service in conjunction with both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific.  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 Brass Car Sides M&R Models
Athabasca Scale Models Union Station Products*

New items have yellow background.
SERIES CAR TYPE Maker - ITEM # NOTES
  31   P.S. baggage - mail   M&R 60-107   Empire Builder
  32 1
  		  P.S. corrugated baggage - mail
 		   M&R 60-56
  USP 1809*		   M&R sides - STAND-IN;
  ex-MKT 1
  75
  		  P.S. baggage - dorm
 		   M&R 60-105
  USP 7598*		   Empire Builder
 
  301 - 302   PS 56-seat coach   B.C.S. 173-530   301, 302 - Empire Builder
  303 - 305   PS 56-seat coach   B.C.S. 173-530   303 - 305 SP&S paint 4
  306 2   Budd dome - 4 Rmt - 4 SR - 4 DBR   BCS 173-524   
  307, 308 1
  		  P.S. corrugated 56-seat coach
 		   M&R 60-57
  USP 7537*		   ex-MKT
 
  309 1
  		  P.S. corrugated coach
 		   M&R 60-62
  USP 7648*		   ex-MKT,
  ex-coach - lounge
  350 ( 1ST )
  		  P.S. dining car
 		   BCS 173-515
  M&R 60-100		   Empire Builder
 
  350 ( 2ND )
  		  P.S. 48-seat leg-rest coach
 		   M&R 60-104
  USP 7510*		   Empire Builder
 
  366 Portland
  		  P.S. 6 Rmt - 4 DBR - 8 Dup Rmt sleeper
 		   ASM 5801 3
  M&R 60-89		   North Coast Ltd
 
  405 Columbia
  		  P.S. diner - lounge
 		   M&R 60-97
  USP 7599*		   Empire Builder
 
  406 Willamette 1
  		  P.S. corrugated dining car
 		   M&R 60-58
  USP 7540*		   ex-MKT
 
  600 Mount Hood
  601 Mount St. Helens 		  P.S. 6 Rmt - 3 DBR sleeper - buffet lounge
 		   M&R 60-95
  USP 4163*		   Empire Builder
 
  701 Wapinitia Pass   P.S. 2 Comp - 5 BR - 6 Rmt sleeper   BCS 173-513   Empire Builder
  702 Snake River   P.S. 1 Comp - 3 BR - 7 Dup Rmt - 4 Sect sleeper   B.C.S.   

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:  SP&S 32, 307 - 309 and 406 are ex-MKT 1000, 1200, 1201, 1301 and 1100 respectively.  While the M&R car sides of the coaches and diner would help create a reasonable model of the car, though not fully accurate without modifications to the center skirt, the baggage - mail car lost some of its lower corrugation, with the sides being listed as a stand-in since the sides represent the car's original appearance on the M-K-T.  To create a more accurate model of car #32 some of the lower corrugation would have to be removed from the car side.

Note 2:  Intended for use on a Kato or Concor Budd corrugated dome - coach shell.

Note 3:  If the Athabasca Scale Models sides are used it will be necessary to add the Des Plaines Hobbies skirting to the bottom of the sides since these sides lack skirting, per the Canadian National prototype.

Note 4:  Originally coaches 303 - 305 were painted with Pullman green sides, black roof and four yellow stripes, one at the edge of the roof, one just above the window section, one just below the window section, and one at the bottom of the sides.  During the mid-to-late-60s the paint scheme was changed to having only a yellow window band in place of the four stripes.
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