Bachmann likes to use the same paint color on various road names.
For example, the Rio Grande Gold, Chattanooga and Virginia Truckee is the same can of yellow paint.
I found a New York Central that is the exact color of the Rio Grande brown version.
I had a spare RGW roof so I don’t even need lettering.
So I’m going to make a non prototype (the Grande never had) Parlor car.
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Hard to tell from pictures, but I assume these are the Jackson & Sharpe cars with metal railings. I really like them a lot.
When I went mostly Fn3 I sold off the two ETWNC cars that I had enhanced and populated only to ‘inherit’ a set form Ken’s estate that were customized by Bruce Chandler. They are too small to pull behind my Fn3 locos except for my little Porter. The Porter couldn’t pull all 3 up my curving grade in CT. It should do much better when I get around to building my raised and level layout here.
Jon, yes metal rails and heavier metal wheels.
I have quite a few in various road names. I also put vent roofs, and other bits on them.
All are populated as well.
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You gotta blank out some windows, add HEP cabling and ditch lites then smash the box!
Aw heck! I like to keep the boxes. Makes it easier to store the cars on my shelf units.
Just my $.02 (if you can find the pennies!), David Meashey
I’m with ya David. When we decided to move I was very grateful to have boxes for all but a few of my cars. The display boxes then went into big cardboard boxes. Even after being loaded and unloaded twice, they look to have survived the move intact.
On the other hand, I fully understand John and Rooster’s position as a middle finger to guys who sell LGB boxes 
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Jon;
Your reply reminded me of something I had to do many years ago. I had bought some second-hand Kalamazoo Toy Trains freight cars. The primitive tank car’s box was OK, but the box cars’ boxes looked as though they had been stored in a very damp basement or a really nasty crawlspace! The outsides were covered with mildew! I would not take the boxes into the house. Fortunately, I had recently bought a Rigid shop vac. and still had that carton. Out came the razor knife, duct tape, and some “out of the box” thinking to make two new boxes from the carton. I still use them today. They are not pretty, but “Works for me!”
Regards, David Meashey
Some work on the Parlor car the D&RGW never owned.
Complete disassembly and cutting up the seats. I will make some styrene tables to put between the benches. The spare DRG roof I had works perfectly.
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And Rooster, before you tell me to add…No dish ware, wine glasses, lamps… 
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Well it’s not a “Parlor” car and it’s just “Subpar” so you might as well smash the box!
No need to tell me. I smashed it five minutes after it arrived!
Leave the back 3 seats brown and call it “Rio Grantrak”.
Just make sure it’s ADA compliant and wheel chair accessible. With HEP cabling and ditch lites!
