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For what it's worth, maybe nothing, but here is an old photo of a CB&CNS (for want of a better word) Utility Crew car. The CB&CNS does not carry passengers but used the car for rail gang work (maybe) it's now part of a Railway hotel and restaurant. The car was built in 1928 and was used by CNR.
Anyway here is a link to where it is now http://www.trainstation.ca/
and a picture of it back in the late 80 or early 90's, hope it's some help to you
Wolf, "Tonight i have see some nice car at my local club"...Sounds like he was at the club to me but I could be wrong. Unless someone else has done an identical kitbash to the one in the link, he certainly has never seen a standard Rivarossi car like that. At this point, I'm pretty lost. Hopefully, Willis's links will help him.
That's from the 1920's heavyweight series of Rivarossi/AHM passenger cars. It's a combination car, with a baggage compartment at one end and a passenger compartment at the other end. They are no longer produced but you can find them as old stock at some hobby shops or at e-bay (http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=passenger+car+rivarossi&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_sop=12).
1. That would depend on the time period you are modeling. Based on the time period I think you are modeling, early 1900s, no. But if you're modeling past roughly 1950, it should have AC.
Is it actually the #5022? I don't see a #5032 on the Branchline site. If it's the 5022, it's not a Pullman but a coach owned by the CN. It was used for second class passengers and did not have air conditioning, just clerestory vents. It would have the exhaust pipes over the lavatories.
Probably older stock since Branchline tends to only make several hundred of any car number. It is exactly the same class of coach as the #5032 so the details should be the same. All of these coaches eventually had air conditioning added but many of them didn't get air conditioning until just before WWII.
The picture shown on the Brachline site is exactly right for that class of coach without air conditioning. The square boxes along the clerestory roof were fan driven ventilators. You shouldn't need to add any extra ducting to the roof unless you want to model a later version that had air conditioning added.
