RailSmith - 75125-26 - Passenger Car, Lightweight, Pullman Articulated Chair - Union Pacific - 2-Pack

Specific Item Information: This is a Classic version of these cars and to the era of this paint scheme, without skirts. The first time we have done this body stile in UP, without skirts. Two cars are being produced at this time and only sold in this ‘Pair’. Road number’s 5421 & 5426 come with silver trucks!

Prototype History: The Pullman Articulated-Chair cars were build for the Southern Pacific. Six sets of these cars were ordered March 1939 and were delivered in December 1939 for the Daylight (66-ACW-1). In August 1940, 14 additional sets were ordered for service on the Morning Daylight, Noon Daylight, and San Joaquin Daylight (66-ACW-2).
The Articulated-Chair car consisted of two chair cars that shared a single truck at the articulation point. One car (ACW) had a Womens Restroom/Ladies Lounge and the other (ACM) had a Mens Restroom/Mens Smoking Room. The restrooms were located closest to the articulation point. The Articulated-Chair cars were designed to save space and weight by having only three trucks and two restrooms for two cars instead of four trucks and 4 restrooms for two cars. Each car was 66 feet over the ends and 68 feet 1 inch from the center of articulation to the buffer, for a total length of 136 feet 2 inches when measured as a unit. Each car seated 46 passengers each, 92 total. In the consist, the Articulated-Chair car was always oriented with the ACW car forward. ACW cars were even numbered cars (and the higher numbered car) and the ACM cars were odd numbered cars. Some sets were equipped with radios with the antenna on the ACM car. Cars 2461, 2469, 2473, and 2475 had radios and antenna.

From Southern Pacific Coast Daylight website.

Road Name History: The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and employs 42,600 people. It is also one of the world's largest transportation companies.

Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the years Union Pacific Corporation has grown by acquiring other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Denver & Rio Grande Western).

Union Pacific Corporation's main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's second largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.

Read more on Wikipedia and on Union Pacific official website.

Brand/Importer Information: RailSmith is a brand launched by Lowell Smith in 2019. Lowell acquired the toolings from Walthers.

With each release, RailSmith will bring passenger cars from across the spectrum of North America’s railroads, with the goal of building entire trains over a period-of-time. It is our plan to release cars that might be for a specific train, but you can use these cars as you see fit, as did the railroads.

Production plans are grand, but we believe they are also achievable. We do not have the capabilities to release an entire train at once, but being able to focus on one release (two-or-three cars at a time), we can build a train over time.