Prototypes for N scale passenger cars, and some complete trains

by Fred Klein

Part 1: Wood and Heavyweight steel cars; purpose of this effort; books

Part 2: Streamlined lightweight corrugated cars: Arnold-Concor

Part 3: Streamlined lightweight corrugated cars: Kato

Part 4: Streamlined lightweight corrugated cars: Model power-Rowa; JnJ

Part 5: Streamlined lightweight smooth side cars

Train models with prototypical consists

Each part is 1-2 megabytes of text, models and matching prototype photos. I suggest reading the introduction (purpose) in part 1 first. Pages were mostly done in 2005 (with minor revisions in 2011). Most N scale passenger cars (except the generic cars from Con cor) issued after 2005 are prototypically accurate for the roads in which they are decorated (from companies like Kato, Intermountain, Wheels of time, Micro-trains, and to a lesser extent Walthers). Even though the part pages have not been updated, they are useful for many available passenger cars. The train model pages have many more recent models with indications of how close to prototypical they are, but without companion prototype photos. I have worked on the train model pages in recent years. Pages were just reloaded (August 2016) with correct Unicode encoding so punctuation displays correctly in web browsers.

The train models pages are an attempt to model specific streamlined or heavyweight trains, car for car, using both off-the-shelf and customized cars.