Rivarossi 60' RPO car. at the best online prices at eBay! Rivarossi HO Scale Model Railroad Passenger Cars, Rivarossi HO Scale Model Railroad Steam Locomotives . I was running quite slow backwards if that makes any difference. I bought some a while ago and they have given me nothing but problems to deal with. 2) ''Modern'' or''OldTime''passenger cars? Many older CB&Q head end cars were repainted an aluminum color in the 50's and 60's so they would not stand out so prominently when run in trains of fluted-side stainless steel cars. You can go with Train Station Products trucks for your Rivarossi units. Those cars were completely different than the Rivarossi / Hornby / Walthers 60' cars that came out a quarter century later. There were short mail cars and combines but few if any short coaches. I believe Chicago Northwestern prototype. Regardless of railroad. I'm trying to avoid modifying how the truck attaches to the frame. A major reference work for all Rivarossi Collectors, the text. 36" wheels were too large unless you wanted to completely remove the brake shoe hanger. . I was looking on ebay and saw numerous ads for rivarossi 1920 era pass. A little longer is baggage dorm series 1602 - 1605 which were 70 feet 0in over end sills. Rivarossi steam was about the best you could get in the 70's and 80's for plastic steam, other choices were Mantua and Bowser diecast engines that took lots of detailing to make them look nice, or Brass engines. or 16oz.They tracked even better, and their behaviour was a lot more prototypicalthe best I can describe it was that the cars rolled ponderouslyno shimmy, no shake, nothing toylike about them at all. I did resist the urge to get a checkerboard sleeper and a dome car because the B & M never owned such. . Yves The Pocher factory was in Turino, Italy and the RivaRossi factory in Como, Italy. /Partly/ because that green was the official color for Pullman which owned and operated most sleeping cars until after WWII. Riva Rossi presents the iconic Pullman 60 ft. passenger coaches that ran for many decades all over the country being pulled by early diesels and steam locomotives from the 1920S through the early 1950S. Rivarossi is a European company so the earlier stuff isn't built to American standards (but when they realized the steamer market in the states, they quickly changed) . http://cgi.ebay.com/Walthers-Trainline-City-Express-Ho-ScaleTrain-Set_W0QQitemZ170136478613QQihZ007QQcategoryZ19135QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem. The so called "Empire Builder" green on the GNwas of this nature. I recently bought an eight car, Rivarossi streamline train in CNW on ebay. I have a run to Spokane Tomorrow, so I may actually get to stop at PF&S, if You talk to Leroy or Sharon, tell them Hi, for me, they will know Me, I am just one of several Truck Drivers that stop there every so often. The cars roll very well. Sold. Shop from top railroading brands like Centralia Car Shops, Bachmann, Walthers, and Lionel. I did a cursory look through a bunch of my GN and PRR materials andcould not find a believable match for any of them. Free delivery for many products! I appreciate any info. I am looking at getting a four car set of rivarossi heavyweight passenger cars in GN livery. There is, of course, the possibility of running non-home-road equipment in many trains, especially sleepers and head-end equipment. I looked at these cars with interest. 2d 20h +$15.00 shipping Sponsored Rivarossi 2335 - 2340 6 Passenger Cars NMRA 50th Anniversary HO Scale Pre-Owned $169.15 Was: $199.00 15% off Buy It Now +$17.50 shipping Free returns Sponsored Ho Scale Rivarossi SP Passenger Car Pre-Owned $34.00 or Best Offer The Athearn cars can be a little hit and miss, sometimes they're in production, sometimes not!! There were more recent runs of Rivarossi 72' cars that have a completely different design, more in line with what Walthers uses on their Proto line, probably both made by Hornby which purchased the assets of Rivarossi a few years back. They won't handle 17 3/4 inch curves. In addition to Rivarossi, there's a company embarking on Boston & Maine 60/66 foot Coaches, and Combines in Resin. I have had an Alco C420 for years and although the detail is not the highest is does run very well. Are they underscale? Free shipping for many products! So called, "Pullman Green" was the most common color on passenger cars from the turn of the century until after WWII. Mostly the heavweights were models of Santa Fe prototypes. The wheel flanges are not pizza cutter type. Here's a quick unboxing and review of the Rivarossi 60'. Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, Two new Union Pacific streamlined passenger cars of the 1950s have been released by Rivarossi. Many railroads used multiple colors, or types of paint on the same car. Excellent. Rivarossi; N Freight Trucks; N Passenger Car Trucks; Gas Turbine; U-50; N Raintree Products - Hood Shells; . I also added weight to the cars and retained the integral couplers (versus body mounted) but replaced them with Kadees. Later, when I took some of them off the layout to do some other work, I found that many of the Kadee wheelsets were dropping out of the trucks, and discovered that the ends of the Kadee axles were severely worn, as were the truck sideframes where the axles were seated. The smooth-side diner is based on a UP 4800-series diner (built circa 1949) The original smooth-side coach was supposedly based on a CN car, in Rivarossis last few years they produced a nice version of a UP 5450-series 44-seat coach (1953-vintage) that was also similar to some other UP coaches. You must log in or register to reply here. Walthers bought out Rivarossi's remaining stock of these cars and sold them under their TrainLine banner for a year or two. Off the top of my head, the RPO is a match or near-match for RPOs that the C&O and the Wabash used, and I /think/ the B&O, Southern and L&N. They come with or without interiors. Did you back 'em up too? Good to know. By 59CA, all painted Daylight with 5217-8 assigned to SJ Daylight and 5219 assigned to Trains 57-58. Thanks Don! ok, i am back. OK, Capt'n, here's how the story of ~60 ' cars currently goes Rivarossi introduced its line of quality 60' cars (baggage, RPO, combine, coach) a few years agojust prior to going into some serious financial straights. If I add enought weight will they stay on the rails. 2022 Vintage HO Athearn Santa Fe SW-1 Switcher Loco . . Can anyone comment about Rivarossi passenger cars? Depends, AHM/Rivarossi produced full-length heavyweight cars for many years, ending production around 2000. On the cars pictured below I replaced the stock Rivarossi "Pizza Cutter" wheels with Proto 2000 36" wheel sets. This example shows the very old wheel design used by Rivarossi. For that, I cast some suitably-sized lead blocks, then put some in the washrooms at each end of the cars (most of my Rivarossi cars came with no interiors), and a bunch more in the clerestories, making each of them 15oz. Dimensions: 600mm. They all needed weight. . In addition, until fairly recently Train World had been advertising full sets and then partial setsof these cars in a few road names. -- I don't care for strippingcars, but I'll need to before I paint up one in Wabash. I broke off the brake clasps so the 36" wheels would fit. Mine were lettered for the Burlington but I removed that and relettered them for my fictional branchline. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners. They LOOK like nice cars, but where can they, reasonably correctly, be used? I have some vague recollecction the coach was Soo Line but no longer recall why I think that. I used Kadee 36" wheels to replace the original ones, but you'll need to trim a little material off the brake shoes on the outboard ends of the trucks, in order to allow the replacement wheels to turn freely.There have been comments from some modellers complaining about incorrect proportions of the cars' clerestory roofs, and other minor issues, but they're not things which bother me.Kadee sells coupler conversion kits specifically for the Rivarossi cars, if you're planning to use truck-mounted couplers. While I've never bought one new, I have quite a few bought off the "used" table at a now long-gone hobbyshop.I think that the detail is decent, although the wheels are undersize, and have flanges which are deeper than most HO scale wheels. I started in the model train business in 1959 buying die-cast freight car kits from Clarence Menteer at Model Die Casting, painting and . Guess I'll stick with the Rivarossi's. A lot of work but I wanted to keep the car for whatever reason. we did not have the truck tuner tool back then either. Saw some late in the day at the Timonium train show. But even in the late 50's and early 60's, I remember a couple Q steam fan trips where they were still able to assemble a complete green heavyweight train - my few photos from those trips where my "people filter" was really working look just like old Lucius Beebe steam portraits. I'm looking forward to these cars, specifically the RPO and the baggage. manage your account online and more! They came without lights but they did have empty rows of seats. I run them both straight out of the box with their horn hook couplers, and also heavily detailed and modified to include body mounted Kadee couplers. I have ten Rivarossi heavyweight passenger cars I run with a A/B set of Athearn PAs. Hi. But it did take on a greenish cast under some weathering and lighting conditions. The roofs may, or may not, have been either black, 'pullman green', or 'dark green truck enamel'. Everyday trains got Pullman Green.> /Partly/ because that green was the official color for Pullman which owned> and operated most sleeping cars until after WWII. HO 1880's-1920's Old Time Passenger Cars; HO Modern Mail Handling Box Cars - On Sale! I've since replaced them with KDs. ), it's going to be a lot easier to make up some decent-looking typical heavyweight consists that don't look as much like a boxed set. The seats are available in a variety of colours, with seats in blocks of six although I usually cut them apart to match each car's window spacing, and then paint them. Those with the distinctive inset bottom sill are Santa Fe: diner, combine and maybe observations? 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The HO versions were the same cars. There is a set of the Riverossi 60' Santa Fe coaches on ebay right now. These cars have body mounted couplers and will in my experience have trouble with curves below 24" radius. You have to go to theHorizonwebsite to find what's available. These were not really prototypical. Item Add to Wish List. They are decent looking although not prototypical. Rivarossi have been making HO scale cars since the early 1950s. You can see where the one axle was rubbing on the coupler mounting boss. The Rivarossi cars imported by AHM roughly 1960's-1980's, and later sold here under the Rivarossi name until about 2000, are not the same cars sold 10-20 years ago under the IHC name (the ones in the bright blue boxes). In coaches in the 70ft 0in size range is series 2395 to 2399 inclusive where are diagrammed as 60ft 4.5 in interior length, 61ft 2in over end sills, 69ft 0in over platforms, & 70ft 3 and 3/4 inches over buffers. If you are looking at the older cars, you would have to be prepared to fit new couplers and wheels. I can't wait until my set arrives. . (To keep the clasp brakes, 33" wheels would work without interference). I have one 2-8-8-2 that has headed up a group of 237 coal cars at a local show. Enjoy your new engine. Merged into another company (Rapido??). For the Athearn Blue Box Passenger cars (or MANY, MANY , MANY Blue Box/MDC items) try calling PF&S Railway Supply, in Pasco, WA (509) 266-4384 If You ever go to The Tri-Cities, this place should be a MUST SEE, they have an INCREDIBLE amount of stock in there, just DON"T judge them from the outside, it doesn't look like much from the parking lot, but get inside and WOW. Never ran all 16 together since each set was a different road name, but I am certain that they would run together trouble free. These really need to be re-trucked with proper flange width axles, and you have to plug the talgo-type snap pin hole for a solid screw mount. 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