Both of these a factory painted Atlas cars, lettered to represent VGN class C-10 cars. They are not 100% accurate but pretty close for out of the box models. For all they are hard to get hold of, I've been on the hunt for over 5 years, they aren't as hard or expensive as brass cars so a decent stand in for now.
I like Atlas cars as they always run well with metal wheels and they are a good robust quality.
My standard is Kadee scale couplers so these are fitted with #158 and have had the trip pins cut.
The cars were a touch under NMRA weight guidelines so a little bit of added weight and all comes into line.
Being Trainman models they don't have huge amounts of detail and separate detail parts, the end grabs are molded on but a little yellow paint highlights them enough. The minimum detail level I try to attain is train line hoses and cut lever bars as most cars lack the end detail but these are quite obviously missing from side-on viewing to me.
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