Brass Car Sides
Brass Sides - Northern Pacific

Budd Diner - North Coast Limited; NP #459-463, CB&Q #458
Walthers Part # 173-29, 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 fits Con-Cor streamlined Budd 10-6 Sleeper or Budd Slumbercoach, or the Walthers Budd Diner (#932-6320 series) each sold separately for an overlay conversion; may also be used with Eastern Car Works Budd Core Kit #117-1399, sold separately. Comes with instructions.
 
Six full-dining cars were delivered to the NP by Budd in 1957-58, and they displaced a like number of Pullman-Standard cars into service on the "Mainstreeter." They operated between Chicago and Seattle until the end of the premier train's career. Diners were cycled in and out of eastbound No. 26 at the NP Commissary in St. Paul. They were the last full-diners built before the advent of Amtrak. Five of the six were purchased by Amtrak in 1971 and operated in the "North Coast Hiawatha," and later in the "Heritage Fleet," particularly on the trains between Chicago and New York and Washington.