Where to find Athearn heavyweight HO passenger car interiors

Jul 16, 2004 9 Replies

Does anyone know where to find commercial versions of these? Or have advice on how to build them?



TIA,



Martin


Walthers has had seat bench kits for many years that appear right for the heavyweights. Aside from that, knowing what the interiors of the Pullman cars will also help. I'll note that all of the cars are shortened so seat quantities and so forth won't be "right" for the cars.

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There's a company called Palace Car Co. which makes interior kits for these and other "second tier" passenger cars. By "second tier", I'm talking about IHC, Con-Cor, Rivarossi, MDC, and a couple others. I saw his stuff at the train show and bought a few of his kits to see what they're all about.

Usually, the kits contain a weight for the floor cut to size, a handful of seats, a couple of walls (depending on the kit), and 3 possible plans for that car. If you have a specific prototype you want to go with, you might have to cut your own internal walls. He uses .030 styrene, mainly.

They are out of Kearney, Nebraska. I'm looking for an address, but I think the literature I picked up from their booth is in the box that's being shipped to me....

Kennedy

They don't seem to have a web site. Gene ABV61-1043.001.HCB

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No they don't. I asked about it, and they said they had email, but that was it for now. I think they were going to eventually have an ordering page, but they weren't moving quickly towards that area.

All the literature I picked up at the show is being shipped home to me along with all the stuff I bought, so it'll be a few days before I can post whatever details I can....

Kennedy

The address is:

Palace Car Co. PO Box 793 Kearney, Nebraska, 68848-0973

Phone: 1-308-238-5099

Kennedy -

Thanks, please let me know when you get your shipment and have the address.

Mart>

Gary -

Thanks for the information. Do they have an email address too?

Martin

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Not on the card I have. You might call them and ask them.... :-)

Their email is snipped-for-privacy@charter.net. they do have a catalog, but so far no web site. and best of all, they DO seem to have the car interiors. thanks for the help, folks!

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