Pennsylvania Railroad P70 Heavyweight Passenger Car
Pennsylvania Railroad P70 Heavyweight Passenger Car
The PRR’s P70 was created as a result of Penn Station and the North River tunnels. Aging wooden rolling stock could not be used in the tunnels owing to the risk of fire – so new, all-steel cars were constructed. These were the P70s.
Over their long life the P70s were modified several times, and I’ve only included a small fraction of the total number of unique configurations of this car. This pack includes:
P70 – The original.
P70R – The original, with air conditioning.
P70fbR – A much-needed overhaul of the oldest P70s, resulting in modernized systems and air conditioning. Some ended up with arched roofs owing to leaky clerestories.
These are offered in Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, and Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines schemes as appropriate. A colorable P70R is also included.
These cars ran on the entire Pennsy network from 1907 onwards, and then continued to run under Penn Central and with commuter trains contracted to Conrail. A few even briefly made it to Amtrak, running in the short-lived Valparaiso train out of Chicago. (They were pretty ratty by then.) Put them behind GG1s, Geeps, steam locomotives – they all are appropriate. (Maybe some pennsy steam will show up on the workshop soon, who knows).
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