MTL single window coach looks like a winner

[Dave V]

NEVER! lol This is a Pennsy household.

[Sokramiketes]

Finally, I can model this in N scale.  Time for a window patch and a run on the back end of a mail train.

[craigolio1]

I might have to get a few of these, they look much closer to the Preamble cars and the trailing 4 cars of the American Freedom Train than anything else that is currently out there.

Will take some work to make a combine and the observation

I was thinking the exact same thing. After the AFT some of those exReading cars (4?) went to the British Columbia Railway. One of them was a combine and another was the observation. I recently acquired a set of four Wheels of Time coaches with the intent to re-window them but I’d like to see these.

Craig

[Chris333]

These are in stock at MBK. Just ordered 5 NYC cars. I need Commonwealth trucks for Erie so I just went with the lower priced NYC over the PRR car. First model train purchase in a looooong time.

[bbussey]

These are in stock at MBK. Just ordered 5 NYC cars. I need Commonwealth trucks for Erie so I just went with the lower priced NYC over the PRR car. First model train purchase in a looooong time.

You could have just asked Joe to sell you some trucks! 

[Chris333]

Oh I didn't order trucks yet. I need the 6 wheel trucks like they used on the baggage car.

[Ike the BN Freak]

Oh I didn't order trucks yet. I need the 6 wheel trucks like they used on the baggage car.

The NYC coaches come with 4 wheel trucks

What do the trucks you are looking for look like?

[Chris333]

These are the trucks I need:
https://www.micro-trains.com/index.php?_route_=erie-rr-baggage-car-rd-580-rel-04-15-14700140

I'll order them direct from MTL. 

[thomasjmdavis]

You could have just asked Joe to sell you some trucks! 

I think what he means Bryan is that he is going to swap out the 4 wheel trucks supplied on the NYC for MT 6 wheel commonwealth top equalized trucks (otherwise known as the "Erie baggage car truck") already provided by Joe or the other exceptional customer service folks at Micro-trains.  Which makes the NYC coach a very, very close stand in for an Erie coach.  That is what I am going to be doing, at any rate, when my NYC cars get here on Monday or Tuesday. 
http://www.spookshow.net/trucks/compass.html

[Chris333]

Yep. Also since you posted that photo. It shows how Erie converted them to air conditioning. They plugged up the roof vents and added the one vent at the end. Also the "thingie" hatch on the roof.

[Lemosteam]

Yep. Also since you posted that photo. It shows how Erie converted them to air conditioning. They plugged up the roof vents and added the one vent at the end. Also the "thingie" hatch on the roof.

Not sure if the shell is the same, but I have snap in roofs very close to that!

[Chris333]

Not sure if the shell is the same, but I have snap in roofs very close to that!

I thought you were working on that roof hatch, but didn't know you made a whole roof.

[Lemosteam]

It would't take much to modify my PRR clerestory version in to that and include a hatch.

[coosvalley]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007UAXJQ
Dupli-Color Adhesion Promoter
Clears to a dull flat surface in most conditions. Won't crack or rub off easily. Use it by itself, or as a base coat for further weathering.

Every time this used to come up I would try to tell folks that using adhesion promoter is the solution. Despite having used it successfully for about a decade now,  and even starting a thread about it, it seems like folks like to ignore the info and continue to gripe about how they cannot get paint to stick to "slippery plastics". I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.

Adhesion promoter is magical stuff, and if you've never tried it, you should.

[Maletrain]

I think what he means Bryan is that he is going to swap out the 4 wheel trucks supplied on the NYC for MT 6 wheel commonwealth top equalized trucks (otherwise known as the "Erie baggage car truck") already provided by Joe or the other exceptional customer service folks at Micro-trains.  Which makes the NYC coach a very, very close stand in for an Erie coach.  That is what I am going to be doing, at any rate, when my NYC cars get here on Monday or Tuesday. 
http://www.spookshow.net/trucks/compass.html

So when is MTL going to take their green SWC, put their "Erie baggage car truck" on it, use an "Erie" print pad, and make what I want in one piece?