All railroads had some cars in its passenger fleet that were used in local or branchline service. Often these were older cars that had spent the prime of their life on the mainline "name train" inter-city service. Some railroads like the C&NW, Southern Pacific, Pennsylvania, and Canadian Pacific had hundreds of cars in their commuter fleets.  No two railroads used exactly the same designs for their cars, and the lengths of the cars varied as well. Also many cars were sold off as "hand me downs" to smaller roads to be used on mixed train branchline service. So these cars could be at home on any prototype railroad, large or small. We chose to model them as 65 Ft long cars, so they would run on 18 inch radius curves of the average home layout. The time era for these cars stretched from the 1920's to well into the late 1950's.

The Santa Fe "Valley Flyer" Scheme orginated in 1939, but the train only ran for a couple of years before the dwinding passengers due to WWII took its toll. But these cars still in their Valley Flyer Paint could be found roaming other stretches of Santa Fe trackage well into the 1940's. These cars can be mixed and matched with our 72 Ft long "Santa Fe Valley Flyer cars". Once the railroads started to introduce the more modern streamlined cars, mixed trains of both styles could be found until well into the late 1950's when the Heavyweight design cars were finally all retired.

FEATURES: 

• Highly detailed car bodies, with seperate wire handrails
• Complete with factory installed Interior lighting that works automaticly in either "DC" or "DCC" mode.
• Complete underbody details (14 individual parts).
• Operates comfortably on 18 inch radius curve.
• Highly detailed working car end diaphrams.
• Highly detailed scissors gates at end doors.
• Multiple car names and road numbers.
• Very free rolling RP-25 metal wheels.
• Highly accurate paint matches.
• Working knuckle couplers.
• Complete interior details.
• Super detailed trucks.