"American Flyer" Passenger Cars
Bangor & Aroostook; Boston & Maine; Kansas City Southern; New Haven; Seaboard Air Line; St. Louis Southwestern ; Southern Pacific
In 1934, the New Haven engaged the services of noted industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, who collaborated with Pullman designers to develop a light weight car design for a new fleet of cars that would allow the railroad to improve schedules, reduce maintenance costs and to reduce the growing costs of fuel.  The first 50-car order were 92-seat coaches delivered in December of 1937.  Utilizing Cor-Ten steel, and weighing in at 100,000 pounds (17 tons less than comparable contemporary cars), these cars featured a tubular cross-section design that was aerodynamically clean with full skirts and windows that were flush to the sides.  Vestibules were located at both ends of the cars to facilitate fast loading and unloading.  So successful was this design, the New Haven would eventually purchase 205 of these cars.

Pullman Standard's Osgood Bradley plant in Worcester, Massachusetts built over 270 lightweight passenger cars of this design, known as "American Flyer" style cars, named after the O scale American Flyer train sets that were models of this prototype.

These hand-crafted HO scale models will be factory finished, with interiors, window glazing and Kadee® couplers installed.  We are offering many of the versions of these cars and due to high number of versions this project may be split into two production runs.  See your dealer to reserve yours now!

 
NH04-50 - New Haven in Pullman Green
J. W. Swanberg Photo
NH04-55 - New Haven in Black Knight scheme
J. W. Swanberg Photo

Bangor & Aroostook versions

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
BA01-3x

BA01-4x		 Bangor & Aroostook - 84 seat coach #230-231 - as built Pullman Green

Bangor & Aroostook - 84 seat coach #230-231 - no skirts in gray & blue		 1937-1949

1949-1955		 On Hold

On Hold		 TBD

TBD

BA03-3x

BA03-4x		 Bangor & Aroostook - Buffet/Lge/Chair #150-2 - as built Pullman Green

Bangor & Aroostook - Buffet/Lge/Chair #150-2 - no skirts in gray & blue		 1937-1949

1949-1955		 On Hold

On Hold		 TBD

TBD

BA04-3x

BA04-4x		 Bangor & Aroostook - Baggage Mail #566-569 - as built Pullman Green

Bangor & Aroostook - Baggage Mail #566-569 - no skirts in gray & blue		 1937-1949

1949-1955		 On Hold

On Hold		 TBD

TBD

Boston & Maine versions

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
BM01 Boston & Maine - 84 seat coach #4585-4614 - Pullman-Standard Lots W-12152 & W-6523 - as delivered oxide red 1935-1958 On Hold TBD

Kansas City Southern versions

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
KCS01 Kansas City Southern - 76 seat coach #230-233
Pullman-Standard Lot W-6504		 1979-19?? On Hold TBD

New Haven versions  

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
NH01-35
NH01-50
NH01-53
NH01-55		 New Haven - 53 seat grill #5200-04  As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 53 seat grill #5200-04  In Pullman Green
New Haven - #8367-8370 as rebuilt 92-seat coach in Silver
New Haven - #8370-8374 as rebuilt 92-seat coach in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme 		 1937-1950(4)
1950-1954
1952-1956
1957-1968		 On Hold
On Hold
On Hold
On Hold		 TBD
NH02-35

NH02-55		 New Haven - 84 seat coach #8200-8249 
As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 84 seat coach #8200-8249
As repainted in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme		 1935-1954

1957-1968		 On Hold
TBD
NH03-35

NH03-55		 New Haven - 84 seat coach #8250-8269 
As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 84 seat coach #8250-8269 
As repainted  in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme		 1936-1954
1957-1968		 On Hold TBD


NH04-35

NH04-50

NH04-55		 New Haven - 92 seat coach #8270-8349  
As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 84 seat coach #8270-8349
As repainted Pullman Green
New Haven - 92 seat coach #8270-8349 
As repainted  in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme		 1937-1954

1950-1968

1957-1968		 On Hold
On Hold
On Hold		 TBD
NH04A-35

NH04A-55		 New Haven - 92 seat coach #8350-8369  
As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 92 seat coach #8350-8369 
As repainted  in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme		 1937-1954
1957-1968		 On Hold TBD
NH05-35

NH05-55		 New Haven - 80 seat coach #8500-8503 
As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 80 seat coach #8500-8503 
As repainted  in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme		 1938-1954
1957-1968		 On Hold TBD
NH06-35

NH06-55

 New Haven - 84 seat coach #8504-8529  
As Built - Hunter Green
New Haven - 84 seat coach #8504-8529 
As repainted  in McGinnis "Black Knight" scheme		 1938-1954

1957-1968		 On Hold TBD

Seaboard Air Line versions

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
SAL01 Seaboard Air Line - Baggage Coach Combine #285-288
Pullman-Standard Lot W-6502		 1937-1967 On Hold TBD
SAL02 Seaboard Air Line - 76 seat coach #830-835
Pullman-Standard Lot W-6501		 1937-1967 On Hold TBD

St. Louis Southwestern versions

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
   SSW01-4x St. Louis Southwestern - 76-seat coach #200-209 
PS Lot W-6530 - Pullman Green with Light Gray Roof - as renumbered June 1940 - Full Skirts		 1940-1949 On Hold TBD
  SSW01-5x St. Louis Southwestern - 76- seat coach #200-209
As renumbered and repainted in Daylight Scheme in 1949 for lease to the Southern Pacific - Full Skirts 		 1949 - mid-to-late 1950's On Hold TBD

Southern Pacific versions

  Product Code Description Prototype Usage

Status

Retail
  SP01-4x Southern Pacific - 76- seat coach #203
Pullman Green with Light Gray Roof - with Southern Pacific in letterboard - Full Skirts 		 late-1940's
-
early 1950's		 On Hold TBD
  SP01-5x Southern Pacific - 76- seat coach #2203-2210,2350-2351
In Daylight scheme - after relettering to Southern Pacific with new numbers - Full Skirts 		 early 1950's -
mid-1950's		 On Hold TBD
  SP02-5x Southern Pacific - 76- seat coach #2350, 2351, 2203 and 2204
Painted in two-tone gray - for Trains 57-58 and Owl & Lark Service - Center Skirts removed 		 mid-1950's
-
late-1950's		 On Hold TBD
  SP02-6x Southern Pacific - 76- seat coach #2204-2208
Painted in Simulated Stainless Steel with scarlet stripe scheme - Center Skirts removed 		 late-1950's
-
1964		 On Hold TBD

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