Hmmmmmm…
An LGB car, passenger trucks, a smoke stack and paint/Decals.
Who would know the difference? 
Good idea!
Might be good to cut 3 of them into 2 longer versions?
I just happen to have 5 of those green cars.
I’ll put it on the list of possibilities…
The LGB cars are a good choice, being a modeler I would use then and make the upgrades as needed. I don’t know how hard these cars would be to find today at a reasonable price, but I would watch eBay as they do come up from time to time.
Isn’t there a cheap Newqida version? No longer available new, I guess.
I’m pretty much with your thoughts on that John.
I’m not sure how long the LGB cars are but using round numbers and say in 1/24 scale if the cars are 25" long then you are pretty much spot on. Not sure if it’s worth the effort or cost to even extend them.
I guess it depends on how accurate you want to be. Myself, I’m not so much.
I have some LGB western style ( D&RGW, WP&Y DSP&P) that aren’t accurate.
But I like them anyway.
So if I did this, I wouldn’t chop and extend any cars. (The actual round roof WP cars are long.)
This shot shows one in between the regular cars,
https://wpyr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rolling-stock-coaches.html
This is why I went with the round numbers I did. 50’ is a good starting place and you decide from there?
As you know I model by eye myself and I was agreeing with your initial thoughts.
They sure rostered a lot of passenger cars, didn’t they!
You could model Sumpter Valley RR as well, because they ended up with a couple of the WP&Y round roof cars.
There’s a few Newqida’s on eBay. (I had to look, Pete)
Cheap enough, but the roof flattens out on the ends.
I’m intrigued with the WP&Y Beehive Carriages.
The train wasn’t running when we were there. How does the trip compare with the D&S?
I started the project.
Please remember that I am always a whole bunch of rivets short on my build. I’m going to match the length of the non-prototypical LGB coaches. So they won’t even come close to the real ones.
This is a “what if” project.
I’d say they are both spectacular! Both in rugged country. I’m not referring to my actual experience, but basing it on all the videos out there.
Not all round roof cars had the WP&Y above the windows. This is an open air car.
Because the LGB Cars I’m using don’t have room for the WP&Y above the windows, they will be like this one.
These are going to look great! Looking forward to stealing a few tips as we prepare for our crack at converting a B’mann coach into an open deck parlor car
- Eric
They didn’t come out exactly as I planned, but I decided to finish them and enjoy.
My lettering was too large, I left out the car names, etc.
The only thing that resembles and actual WP model is the loco.
Since they came out as “what ifs”, I decided to throw another car-they-never-had caboose on the train.
Nice job John, they came out great.
I was just on that train this week 
Nice job on the cars, back in the day when I was into the WP&Y I paint the LGB U S coaches in WP colors and had decals made for them, 5 cars all together. today those cars were repainted to my F W & S-W railroad, I never purchased any LGB Swiss coaches but thought about it. Today my WP engine looks like this, and I tell everyone it was purchase for the WP railroad. Didn’t the Durango and Silverton really screw them up with that horrible
paint scheme they paint them. Do note the front plow was reinstalled on the engine, but not when this pic was taken.
