These web pages provide a history of the meet cars that have been offered by OSW.
The cars offered at the OSW meets were:
The S scale meet car was the Pacific Rail Shops PFE reefer. It was RTR, a first for Pacific Rail Shops. There were two paint schemes. Each scheme had four road numbers available. The paint schemes are the PFE double herald with a black and white UP herald, and the PFE double herald with the color UP herald. OSW is sold out of these cars.
OSW is selling the 2-rail version of this car and Petersen Supply is selling the 3-rail version. Here is an artist's rendition of the car as seen on the Petersen Supply web pages.
The scheme on this car went into use during the late steam era and lasted for the rest of the lives of those cars.
The cars are assembled and weighted, have metal non-magnetic wheelsets, and include installed KD-compatible couplers.
3-rail cars are available from Petersen Supply; pricing is shown with the car image.
Two-rail cars are available from OSW and are priced at $55 each plus S & H. To purchase please see To Purchase below.
The S scale meet car was the Pacific Rail Shops PFE reefer, ready to run, painted in the double herald (black and white UP herald) scheme and with three new road numbers. OSW is sold out of the S scale cars.
There were two O scale cars.
Still available. One is the Weaver double door low inside height steel boxcar painted two tone gray and lettered for UP express service (1946-1952). A photo of the prototype is here.
Note: the meet cars will not have the trucks shown in the photo. The trucks will be the AAR/Bettendorf style truck. Allied full cushion trucks are available from Weaver. The amount of work to adapt those trucks to this car is unknown.
These cars have been documented to roam off line. In one instance the car appeared in Chicago. In another the car was in the consist of SP train 26, the Odgen - Oakland mail train.
This car was available in three numbers, 75 cars total. The cars were available with either Delrin or die-cast trucks. The price for the delrin-trucked car is $42.00. The die-cast trucked car will cost $10 more. Both prices include couplers.
The other O scale car was the Red Caboose wood reefer lettered for PFE - WP. This car differed from from the previous runs by RC of the PFE - WP car in that this car had orange side hardware instead of black side hardware (1952). This car was available in 12 numbers. OSW had two sets of 12 numbers plus one other car for a total of 25 cars. These cars were $55 each which includes metal wheelsets and KD couplers. OSW is sold out of the PFE reefers.
The S scale meet car was the S-Helper Service USRA 40 foot double sheated box car painted and lettered for Northwestern Pacfic. It was available in four numbers, 50 cars of each number. OSW is sold out of the S scale cars.
To Purchase
For the O scale cars, if you want to purchase one or more of the cars that listed above as Still Available, please contact Errol Spangler at "Oscalerr at yahoo dot com" or by post at seven oh four Lakebird D r i v e, Sunnyvale, CA 94089; you can also call him at area code = 408 prefix = 734 number = 2832 (see the Contact link below for help in decoding the preceding phone number information). Errol will also have the most current availability of the limited quantity cars. Note: the S & H charge will vary with how many cars you purchase and how you want them shipped to you.
For the S scale cars, if you want to purchase one or more of the cars that listed above as Still Available, please contact Lee Johnson at "leemax at jps dot net". Lee will also have the most current availability of the limited quantity cars. Note: the S & H charge will vary with how many cars you purchase and how you want them shipped to you.
