Brass Car Sides
Brass Sides - Pullman
14-4 Sleeper (Plan #4153) - Smoothside Without Center Skirts
Walthers Part # 173-28, p. 140 Walthers 2012 HO Scale Reference
HO scale, $31.75, currently in stock at Walthers
Photo-etched brass sides for streamlined passenger cars. Window openings
and grab iron holes are etched through, with additional etched details on
the surface. Undecorated kit can be used with either Basic (#173-101) or
Deluxe (#173-102) Body Kits, or the Rivarossi "1930" 85' streamlined coach
or sleeper as an overlay conversion. Comes with instructions.
Seven U.S. railroads were the original purchasers of 14 roomette, 4 double
bedroom streamlined sleeping cars from Pullman-Standard after WW II. The
Kansas City Southern, Missouri Pacific (and subsidiaries T&P and IGN), and
Baltimore and Ohio owned 54 smoothside versions, built to plans 4153,
4153A, and 4153B. The Katy, Frisco, Southern and New Haven purchased a
total of 62 14-4 sleepers with fluted stainless steel sheathing.