Pennsy RR Bagagge Car

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Dave:

The PRR baggage car B60b is very close to the N&W car Bej).  I would 
not say they are 100% the same, but they look like they were built 
from the same plan.  The roof vents and doors are different and 
Walthers has taken care of that.  I think N&W cars may have had 
different wheel bearings, but that's a small difference.

You asked about the roof.  All these cars were built with the balloon 
roof, arch roof, or turtle roof.  Call it what you want.  PRR had 
hundreds of these cars, N&W had 10, plus some baggage-RPO to the same 
design.  The 15ft. RPO apartment was later removed, and those cars 
then had one wide and one narrow door on each side.  N&W baggage cars 
with clerestory roofs far outnumbered the model.   PRR's earlier 
class B60 had a clerestory roof.

If you want to model the 50's and 60's, the N&W model does not have 
the correct doors.  You would need to make plain "steel" doors with 
one small square window in each.  Personally, I wouldn't mess with 
that unless I bought an undec model.  I wouldn't want to take the 
painted model apart and try to match paint on new doors.  The undec 
car come with all the parts to do either PRR or N&W, but no steel N&W doors.

The PRR cars ran all over the nation, and you would see them in N&W 
trains and Southern run-throughs as often as the N&W cars.  Until 
c.1959, trains 1 & 2 always carried a PRR B60 or B60b which ran 
between Harrisburg, PA  and Roanoke.

Rick Morrison