Chicago & Eastern Illinois

HO, N, S and O Scale Passenger Car Sides.  Our sides are done with a white styrene outer side and a crystal clear plastic inner side that are to be glued together.  The clear inner side is also used for window glazing.  All sides are undecorated and require a core kit (roof, floor, ends) to make a car shell, or the use of a donor car, unless otherwise indicated.  The diagrams shown are three or four colors:  white lines are the outlines of the sides and doors (if the kit comes with separate doors), green lines are generally window openings, red and blue lines are details cut into the sides.  Descriptions of the cars are of the prototype and usually tell the builder, number of cars made, the original owning railroad, and disposition of the cars.  These descriptions are taken from the "Pullman-Standard Library" and the "Passenger Car Library" by RPC Publications, and are used with permission All sides listed as fluted include fluting in the kit.

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  • This car was rebuilt by C&EI from a heavyweght to a stream-styled Coach.

    • $24.99
  • This car was rebuilt from a heavyweight.  Fluting was added below the windows to match the C&O cars they had purchased.

    • $29.99
  • These 29 cars were delivered in 3/53 to 4/53 to L&N (22), C&EI (4) and NC&StL (3).  They were named in the "Pine" series.  3 of the C&EI cars went to NdeM and 1 was rebuilt into a MoPac Business Car.  The NC&StL cars went to L&N in '57 and 7 of the cars went to NdeM, 2 were wrecked, 3 went to Ringling Bros., 7 to a wild bird sanctuary and 1 became an L&N inspection car.  The other 3 were sold to private owners.

    • $24.99
  • These 9 cars were delivered in 4/54 and 12/54, C&EI (2), ACL (2), FEC (2), L&N (1) and NC&StL (2) for use on the "Dixieland."  CN bought the 2 FEC cars in '67; 4 went to NdeM; 2 went to Amtrak and the L&N car was sold to a private owner.

    • $29.99
  • These 6 cars were delivered to Pere Marquette in early '44 and late '46 for use in general service.  2 were sold to C&EI in '50 and then scrapped in '60 and '65.  1 went to Western Maryland and 1 to Amtrak in '71.

    • $29.99
  • These 4 cars were delivered to Pere Marquette in 8/46 for use on the "Pere Marquette."  All were sold to C&EI in '50 where 1 was scrapped in '60 and 1 in '65.  PM used 2 of these cars on each trainset; 1 on the end and 1 behind the head-end cars to make the train bi-directional by moving the head-end cars to the opposite end.

    • $29.99
  • This car began as a Baggage-Lunch Counter-Lounge built for use on the "Meadowlark."  It was wrecked and rebuilt as Dining Car #506 "Potawatomi Inn" in '52.

    • $29.99
  • This car was delivered in 10/46 for use on the "Whippoorwill."  It was numbered 702 and named "Chicagoland."  In '56, it was rebuilt to a 64 seat Coach #459.

    • $24.99
  • These 12 cars were delivered in 9/53. 10 went to C&EI for use on the new "Dixieland" and were numbered 475 to 484, and 1 each went to L&N and A&WP to replace wrecked cars.

    • $29.99
  • These 4 cars (2 for each railroad) were delivered in 9/47 for use on the "Pine Tree/Kennebec/Flying Yankee."  The B&M cars were sold to Wabash in '57 and went to N&W after the merger.  The MEC cars were sold to C&EI in '51 and went to L&N after the merger. 

    • $29.99
  • This car was delivered in 10/48 to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois for use on the "Whippoorwill." It was numbered 304. In '52, it was remodeled to a Lunch Counter Lounge (see 7488-R). It was sold to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in '57.
    • $24.99
  • This car was remodeled in '52 from a Coach Baggage Mail. It was renumbered to 602. See full description at #7488.
    • $29.99