S-2 sleepers by Walthers

Tue Jun 14 17:39:05 EDT 2022

 The N&W S2's were delivered in the Pennsy tuscan red, and remained so for a long time. As for the Rivarossi car, it is a model of the ACF car, so it has four aisle windows instead of three on the Pullman built S2's. The Walthers car is an accurate model, and considerably more sophisticated than the Rivarossi car.
Jim Nichols
    On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 03:36:39 PM CDT, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  

 Most Walthers HO scale passenger cars come fully decorated, but with no car number or car name, and a decal sheet is included for modelers to apply their own car name/number as appropriate.  It is not a letter or number jumble, so the names of the three N&W County cars will be included, each being a single decal.  
I'm not familiar with the Arrow upgrades mentioned earlier, but the Walthers Proto series cars are some of the best HO passenger cars you'll ever see, and they are far superior to the Rivarossi/AHM cars.  That said, everyone has their own definition of good enough.
These cars are being released as part of Walthers' next passenger train, the PRR General, so advanced reservation is more accurate than backorder.  Walthers has not been doing a lot of extra passenger cars lately, so while I know a wait and see what it looks like mindset makes sense, especially with the paint color, there is a strong chance that if you don't reserve one, you may have trouble finding them.  I fully expect Walthers to sell out almost immediately, so you will have to track them down through a dealer who ordered cars for stock and not just customer reservations.
Walthers has only done a couple of N&W cars, so it is hard to guess what color they will use.  I believe they did use different shades of tuscan for the N&W BEk baggage cars as opposed to the PRR B60b, so the N&W 10/6 may be a different color than the PRR.  Comparing pictures, the N&W car looks more brown than the MTH Arrow cars, but also appears to be a different shade than the PRR car.  Of course all of this is preproduction and probably digitally edited, so you can't trust the colors pictured.  
Marty Flick

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At this point the link responded with a "backorder " which is likea tentative reservation if there are enough of them. I have severalof the 20th century Rivarossi/Bachmann cars which needs someupgrades,  which I have yet to do. But I do have the issues ofthe Arrow with the information. How much betterthan a Rivarossi 10-6 with an AHM interior and the Arrow upgradeswill the Walthers car be? I only need one for the Shenandoah Valley1/2 New York Train...

JeffCornelius 
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