My latest acquisition on eBay is a pair of JnJ brass car sides for an "80 foot Harriman coach".
Now, my feeling on these and other JnJ heavyweights labeled "Harriman" is that they are not necessarily actually modeled on Common Standard prototypes, or have been so altered to fit onto Rivarossi (in the case of their 80' cars) or Bachmann (in the case of their 60' cars), that any resemblance to the Common Standard cars is coincidental. But, that said, it is quite possible that a prototype for these sides exists, I just haven't found it yet.
I am looking for cars I might model with these sides (close will be good enough). Note that the sides have window arrangement of: lavatory window- 11 paired windows- lavatory window. There is a transom above each pair of windows.
That said, I have so far found a couple of "close" prototypes, SP commuter cars that had lav. window-10 paired windows-single window-lav. window. These cars had transoms, which were initially, apparently, just blocked, and later some were completely plated over.
NC&StL These cars had a window arrangement with lav. window, 11 paired windows. No second lavatory window. And the transoms were paired, matching the windows. The transoms were later plated over to create a wide letterboard. I may model it in this fashion, as it would result in a reasonably accurate car for a mid 50s Dixie Flyer.
The car sides look like this (I think most of the tarnish/staining is due to fingerprints left 25 years ago by the original owner). Apologies for the quick phone pic.:
Both those cars had clerestory roofs, but an arched roof car would also be interesting (and more Harriman-like).
Anyone have a selection for a close match?
