"Wow !" They are here, I would give them a 9.9 on a 1-10 scale. Wheels of Time has really done their homework this time. As a passenger train fanatic one of the books in my vast Rail Buff Library is "Southern Pacific Passenger Cars,Volume 3 Headend Cars" published by the SPH&TS. I finished reading this huge book only a month a go so the real data vs the models is still freshly implanted.The models are stunning, the baggage doors are free sliding, perhapse too easly like on early MT box cars they might vibrate open when car is in a train. The road specific details are very nice. Correct roof vents and smoke jack on early version cars, vents removed on later cars. Car numbers for those cars both Union Pacific and SP that had six wheel trucks,have MT six wheel trucks with plastic wheels, (only fault) cars with four wheel trucks use the WOT truck used under the coaches. The SP Dark Olive paint scheme with gold lettering is wonderful. even the star in a circle on the lower center car side indicating on board express messinger facilities is viewable on on green car. The other lacks it and its number is that of a car not equiped. The two tone gray cars are also the same way, one express messinger car and one non. The Union Pacific Yellow cars are quite striking, but the yellow looks just a bit light color. The lower red stripe decal is for the brighter reflectorized scotchlite markings the road applyed by the mid 1950's.Some cars are available with the later modernized plymetal doors with a single window,unfortunately in order to get either a UP or SP car with this style of door you have to buy a set that has three baggage cars and a matching coach. Then there is the "Milk & Cream" car, in the late 1902's early 30's SP assigned some of these cars to haul cans of milk,there are good photoos of this scheme in my big book, they were Olive Green cars with extra lettering reading "Milk And Cream",the model sold only as a unique single car is dead accurate. Then there are other roads that operated arch roof cars, my book shows many of them IC of course was Harriman controlled for awhile but other roads like Canadian National ,ACL and Erie were not and the underframes on their cars had a large center sill. I ordered one CN car in the original light weight car scheme green, gold and black, and it has the correct under frame and modernized doors. I'am thinking about getting a second car also maybe two ACL cars,which are in dark green with six wheel trucks. Anyone modeling any of these roads or mail trains which often included foreign road cars in their consists should consider a few of these cars. Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake,Utah.
