Revised 5-27-07

These models accurately detail AT&SF heavyweight 60-foot Railway Post Office, representing a 70-79-series car built by Pullman in 1927. They are featured in the Headend Car Book By Ellington and Shine and republished by the Society, p. 21+.

The car pictured below is the Lambert version that comes with a brass underbody. The Suydam car has no underframe. Neither came with trucks. The trucks shown below are from Pecos River. The Suydam version had better detail in the clerestory.

Andy Sperandeo took a Lambert model and and redetailed it. This included constructing a correct styrene underbody for the car.

The trucks are Coach Yard no. 0534 trucks with the double elliptical spring arrangement as used on the Santa Fe's four-wheel trucks for heavyweights. A roller-bearing version is also offered as no. 0533.

Lambert RPO showing Coach Yard truck with generator mount, Cal Scale mail hook, and steps.

Sperandeo plans on adding the horizontal bars used inside the windows. The Kadee couplers are set back for close coupling with modified Walthers folded-bellows diaphragms.

HO brass model with all new handrails, grab irons, uncoupling levers, coupler yokes, corner stirrups, and door steps.

Lambert HO model painted with 4 parts Polly Scale GN Empire Green, 1 part PS Reefer Yellow, lettered as Santa Fe no. 76.