HarryM wrote: I am checking for ATSF passenger cars for my son [who lives a distance away]. He has a couple of Atlas streamlined cars [parlor and coach]. I see an Aurora and an Arnhold car on e-Bay. Can anyone tell me if these would match his Atlas cars? The Aurora is a vistadome and the Arnhold is an RPO car. Thanks. harrym
--------------------------------------------------- The Atlas cars are 85' cars, the Aurora (Minitrix) cars are about 72', and the Arnold RPO is around 57' IIRC. I mix these cars and they look ok, but I usually run my passenger trains with about 11 or more cars so a mix looks nice.
The Atlas cars are silver with black lettering, the Aurora cars have a red stripe through the window area (larger on one side due to the dropped windows), and the Arnold car is all silver with black lettering.
Hope this helps.
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