I've come across these MP54 coaches available in HO scale through Con-Cor:
http://all-railroads.com/HOmP54.html
They aren't the A&A's Boonton coaches but they're very similar and they're certainly the closest thing I've seen available in HO (if you can judge by the photo of the prototype, at any rate.
I think for those A&A modellers out there (like myself) not content with the Victorian Era coaches and combines they've adopted (on account of their open vestibules) in lieu of Boontons, this Con-Cor series seems like a tempting upgrade. It wouldn't take much to modify the ends of the coaches to give them the Boonton look. A less fussy modeller might even be content to simply remove the vestibule doors.
Of course, at $60.00 each (and only sold in sets of two), they are a smidge pricey and it would be my luck that someone would offer Boontons the minute I finished collecting a set of MP54s. Nevertheless, they really are--in my opinion--satisfyingly close in appearance to the A&A's coaches.
I may have to go for it, but as I tend to see things not as they are but as I am, I mistrust my own judgment and I would first ask the opinions of my fellow Arcade & Attica enthusiasts, particularly those who model the A&A. For that reason, I would respectfully request that our erstwhile administrator kindly resist the urge to move this post into the 'Scale Model Railroading' forum. I seek the opinion of 'Arcade & Atticanites', not of model railroaders.
http://all-railroads.com/HOmP54.html
They aren't the A&A's Boonton coaches but they're very similar and they're certainly the closest thing I've seen available in HO (if you can judge by the photo of the prototype, at any rate.
I think for those A&A modellers out there (like myself) not content with the Victorian Era coaches and combines they've adopted (on account of their open vestibules) in lieu of Boontons, this Con-Cor series seems like a tempting upgrade. It wouldn't take much to modify the ends of the coaches to give them the Boonton look. A less fussy modeller might even be content to simply remove the vestibule doors.
Of course, at $60.00 each (and only sold in sets of two), they are a smidge pricey and it would be my luck that someone would offer Boontons the minute I finished collecting a set of MP54s. Nevertheless, they really are--in my opinion--satisfyingly close in appearance to the A&A's coaches.
I may have to go for it, but as I tend to see things not as they are but as I am, I mistrust my own judgment and I would first ask the opinions of my fellow Arcade & Attica enthusiasts, particularly those who model the A&A. For that reason, I would respectfully request that our erstwhile administrator kindly resist the urge to move this post into the 'Scale Model Railroading' forum. I seek the opinion of 'Arcade & Atticanites', not of model railroaders.