Varnish

In a previous post I mentioned an auction that I was bidding on for a set of heavyweight Norfolk and Western passenger cars to go behind the J class locos that I own. Unfortunately I was sniped at the last second so I lost out on them.

Instead I obtained a set of Con Cor unlettered heavyweight cars in green paint from a source on the N scale Yahoo group. I also purchased a set of four Model Power heavyweight coaches in Army livery (to me they look just like Lima cars but according to the N Scale Encyclopedia they have differences in some of the detailing. I have a set of the Lima cars in PRR paint but haven't closely compared them) from MB Klein. These will be stripped and painted in N&W livery instead.

I also have a full set of Con Cor smoothside passenger cars, some are already painted for the N&W and some need to be done. This will give me two full consists of cars for the two locomotives. The N&W had both types that were pulled behind the J class, mostly in mixed consists along with a handful of Pullman cars, so I'll have to get a few of them as well.

I have fifteen cars in all to deliver to the paint shop with the decals next month, hopefully I'll be getting them back before the train show season begins in earnest.