On Sun Feb 20, 2005 Mike Brock wrote:

Nevertheless, it appears that the Walthers car needs only a few changes to

make the PFE version.
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One thing not mentioned by Mike is the board width on the Walthers model.
When originally built, the PFE express cars had "passenger car" wood siding,
which has a width of about 2-1/2" or 2-3/4" ( I don't have a Car Builder's
Cyc here to verify, and I don't remember for sure.) When the PFE cars were
rebuilt with the small facia board, they were built with "freight car" wood
siding, which is 3-1/4" wide. This is noticeable, and it was correctly
modeled on the recent Challenger Imports cars.

Cheers,
Dick Harley