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So i've been working on this mesh over the weekend. I've started with the baggage car but will most likely do a full set
What Do you Guys think?

Very welcome.

There aren't that many well made general service passenger cars.

ACF cars all have painted flat sides, never fluted stainless steel?

Well ACF Made both. I Might make fluted steel versions as well.

GenericZack wrote:Well ACF Made both. I Might make fluted steel versions as well.

Were any of the name trains made by ACF? I mean Pullman Standard and The Budd Company made most of those, the shot welding of fluted stainless steel being a Budd patent and all?

I always got the impression ACF was more of a second tier supplier, of ordinary cars like baggage, mail and coaches.

I dont know of any name trains. i'm manly making these for OCS Trains so we can have somthing that looks more correct than the Gtrax cars and more mordern than then RSC Ones

GenericZack wrote:I dont know of any name trains. i'm manly making these for OCS Trains so we can have somthing that looks more correct than the Gtrax cars and more mordern than then RSC Ones

Those were exactly my though when you made the announcement and showed your first 3D model.

Some good looking general service cars would come in very handy indeed. Why we always remember the big streamlined name trains, the railroad earned its business as much from ordinary mail and express and coach only day trains.
ACF surely must have made some sleepers, dome coaches and observation cars.

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American Car & Foundry

American Car & Foundry was formed in 1899 by the consolidation of more than a dozen carbuilders. The company changed its name in 1954 to ACF Industries; its latter-day plants were at Milton, Pa., Huntington, W. Va., and St. Charles, Mo.

ACF's pre-war streamliner production includes a pair of lightweight trains for Baltimore & Ohio - one intended for B&O's Alton Railroad and the other reassigned to the Alton after two years on the B&O; Gulf, Mobile & Northern's Rebels; Missouri Pacific's first Eagle; and several self-propelled Motorailers.

A wartime lot of 100 hospital cars wound up rebuilt to various configurations by the Alaska Railroad and the Monon and as baggage dorms for Southern Pacific and Atlantic Coast Line.

ACF's postwar production appears to have been made up of orders that Pullman-Standard and Budd were too busy to handle, with a few notable exceptions: the feature cars for Great Northern's 1951 Empire Builder and several large lots of cars for Missouri Pacific, Louisville & Nashville, and Union Pacific, including most of UP's domes.

ACF's last passenger cars were 25 baggage cars for UP in 1961.

Source: http://trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-history/2006/06/who-built-the-streamliners

Union Pacific uses a lot of ACF cars on their excursions. I can't tell if the one pulled by 4449 is an ACF or not though.

open car doors for an excursion?

Lookin' good!

Thanks


A Little Rough Model Of The Coach

Not bad. These will be mapped easily right?