The 2001 release Walthers Budd
Grill-Diner 6325 is a model of NYC Grill diner (Budd, 1948). These cars are not
ATSF prototypes, but I enclose photos because the cars look so good. No ATSF Budd
diner had doors on the aisle side. The Kitchen side is somewhat like Awatobi,
1486 & 1487, but the aisle side is very different.
The
only plastic ATSF diner is the Concor model which does not have the quality of
the Walthers Car.
The attached photos
are of the car straight out of the box. The metal grabs have not yet been added.




Click any of the above for enlargements.
For further information, see the Common
Traits page.
A modified Amtrak version can be
seen here.
Also
see the prototype in The Passenger Car Library, Volume 5, Santa Fe / Southern
Pacific, by W. David Randall, RPC Publications, 2002.