04-29-2015, 10:17 PM
Very nicely done, Glen. 
I'd guess that your wooden-floored cars with metal sides might be from Walthers. At one time, they offered a very extensive line of their own heavyweight passenger cars, along with a lot of detail parts, trucks, and decals to go with them. These included full build-'em-yourself interiors, too. I'd always wanted them when I was starting out but they were beyond my limited budget, and by the time I could afford them, they had been discontinued, supplanted by even more nicely-done plastic cars.
I did have Athearn passenger cars, though, and later the Rivarossi cars, both heavyweights and lightweights. Over the years, many have been sold off, but most of my remaining passenger fleet is modified Rivarossi - much nicer to work on, I think, than those old Walthers cars. If I'm not mistaken, they're embossed sheet metal, with wood floors - the original ones had wooden roofs, which required the modeller to shape the downward curves at the ends. I think that the later ones came with the roof-ends already formed, and the final version may have had plastic roofs. I did pick up several of those to use on some as-yet-unbuilt wooden baggage cars.
Wayne
I'd guess that your wooden-floored cars with metal sides might be from Walthers. At one time, they offered a very extensive line of their own heavyweight passenger cars, along with a lot of detail parts, trucks, and decals to go with them. These included full build-'em-yourself interiors, too. I'd always wanted them when I was starting out but they were beyond my limited budget, and by the time I could afford them, they had been discontinued, supplanted by even more nicely-done plastic cars.
I did have Athearn passenger cars, though, and later the Rivarossi cars, both heavyweights and lightweights. Over the years, many have been sold off, but most of my remaining passenger fleet is modified Rivarossi - much nicer to work on, I think, than those old Walthers cars. If I'm not mistaken, they're embossed sheet metal, with wood floors - the original ones had wooden roofs, which required the modeller to shape the downward curves at the ends. I think that the later ones came with the roof-ends already formed, and the final version may have had plastic roofs. I did pick up several of those to use on some as-yet-unbuilt wooden baggage cars.
Wayne