There were actually three different series of passenger cars produced by Rivarossi for Atlas and they're all present and accounted for on this page. Unlike many of the other A1G series, these passenger car styles were still available well after the A1G period from the original molds, most recently under the Arnold imprint; and in fact the line has been expanded to include more types of passenger equipment, such as a full baggage car. The offering of roadnames has also been greatly expanded, although I don't think anyone will vouch for the prototypical correctness of these roadnames.

The three types of passenger cars marketed by Atlas were:

2600 - Heavyweight, with six wheel trucks
These were the first passenger cars marketed by Atlas

2630 - Streamlined, Smooth Side, with four wheel trucks
These were first seen as "coming soon" in an advertisement in the May 1968 issue of Model Railroader

2660 - Streamlined, Corrugated Side, with four wheel trucks

The prototypes for the Coach and Observation cars in the 2630 series cars were used in the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Broadway Limited" passenger train. I was able to back into this information via the reviews of their HO Scale counterparts in Model Railroader Magazine's February 1967 issues. The HO cars were imported into the United States by AHM but like the N Scale cars they were manufacturered by Rivarossi. They are different sized models of the same cars. Michael Bishop tells us that the Streamlined Baggage Car is based on a Monon Railroad conversion of a car originally built as a Hospital Car for the United States Army.

Key spotting features for these car are:
- Atlas stamped on the underside of the car near one of the trucks. It may also be stamped on the underside of the removable roof.
- Full interiors. All A1G cars had these, many reissues did not (although the current Arnold versions do, at least on the heavyweights).
- Passenger trucks, four wheel (streamlined) or six wheel (heavyweight) with the original Rapido type couplers mounted to the trucks via foldover metal strips. The six wheel trucks also have "Atlas" stamped on them near the coupler mounts.
- And lighted ("illuminated") versions...

In the case of the streamlined and corrugated cars, lighted cars were available in the USA. (Heavyweights were never lighted that I recall, but an Italian/English catalog shows a lighting kit for the cars including the heavyweights...!) These are immediately identifiable by the metal strips that touch each axle on the four wheel trucks and is mounted to the truck with the same screw that attaches the truck to the car. (See images within the PC Observation entry.) Each truck was connected to one rail and insulated from the other, if the wheels were in right, that is; and screws in from the top of the truck mount held a metal strip. A light bulb completed the circuit and was lit, if everything worked well, the track was clean, and the powerpack was set at a sufficiently high voltage to enable the bulbs to light... which often meant that either that the locomotive pulling the passenger train didn't have enough juice to pull or it was going at way over scale speed! Ah, those early days of N Scale!

There are no major or minor variations of these cars of which I am aware.

Note: The following information on conditions and "Approximate Value" prices are intended to be a guideline only and is presented with no warranties, express or implied. Caution: Definitions and prices can and do vary with collectors, buyers and sellers, and, of course, whether a person is buying or selling an item. That's the way a "free market" works...

A 2600 series car in "mint in box" or "MIB" condition has:
- body intact with no wear on the roof especially where it joins the body
- no weathering
- no abrasions, scratches or other damage to the paint
- the original passenger trucks with the original metal wheels which were fitted to the axles
- in the case of Illuminated cars, original wipers mounted to trucks and current carrying metal strips mounted inside the car, light bulb intact and operating
- "Rapido" type couplers, truck mounted (this is a case where changing to Micro-Trains® trucks and/or couplers is not a plus!).
Note that minor paint flaws on these cars were common and should not be considered especially "collectible"; in fact, I'd rather have a "perfect" paint job.
- no dust, dirt or wear on the car itself
- no wear on wheels (although discolored wheels are common)
- kept in the original Atlas box
- box itself is intact with no cracks, breakage or crazing, with original Atlas label (usually white with black printing), plastic liner (usually blue), and cover. Both inserts and labels vary as the A1G series was sold for years. Store price stickers may or may not detract depending on the placement, size and wear.

Approximate values are particularly problematic with these cars especially because they were available for many years after A1G. Because of this, I think it's necessary to view this group more from a "collector" perspective than with freight cars, and therefore I'm only calling out "New In Box" values. I do put a premium on lighted cars, assuming that they work as produced. That doesn't necessarily mean that the lights stay on all the time when the cars are being run, as A1G veterans will attest.

Table of Releases: Where available, click on "Image" to popup an image of the actual car.
Approximate Values Updated July, 2024.
Heavyweight Passenger Cars

Catalog #	Popup Image	Roadname and Number*	Body Style	Description	AV MIB	AV MIB Lighted
2601	Image	ATSF (none)	Heavyweight Pullman	Pullman Green, Black Roof/Yellow, Yellow Stripes "Pullman" / "St Croix"	12-15	N/A
			Underside Image
2602	Image	ATSF 2602+	Heavyweight Combine	Pullman Green, Black Roof/Yellow	12-15	N/A
2603	Image	ATSF 1418#	Heavyweight Diner	Pullman Green, Black Roof/Yellow	12-15	N/A
2604	Image	ATSF 35	Heavyweight Observation	Pullman Green, Black Roof/Yellow "Cafe Observation"	12-15	N/A
2611	Image	B&O 3612	Heavyweight Pullman	Blue,Gray, Gray Roof/Yellow	12-15	N/A
2612	Image	B&O 2003	Heavyweight Combine	Blue,Gray, Gray Roof/Yellow	12-15	N/A
2613	Image	B&O 1064	Heavyweight Diner	Blue,Gray, Gray Roof/Yellow "Margaret Corbin"	12-15	N/A
2614	Image	B&O 5014	Heavyweight Observation	Blue,Gray, Gray Roof/Yellow	12-15	N/A
2621	Image	PRR (none)	Heavyweight Pullman	Tuscan Red (Brown)/Yellow "James Logan"	12-15	N/A
2622	Image	PRR 342	Heavyweight Combine	Tuscan Red (Brown)/Yellow "The Pennsylvania Limited - New York Chicago"	12-15	N/A
2623	Image	PRR 1184	Heavyweight Diner	Tuscan Red (Brown)/Yellow	12-15	N/A
2624	Image	PRR 4496	Heavyweight Observation	Tuscan Red (Brown)/Yellow "Pullman"	12-15	N/A

+ Road Number is the same as the catalog number, this isn't a typo.
# May look like "1410" but reasonably sure it's 1418, confirmed by several other A1G followers.


Smoothside Streamlined Passenger Cars

Catalog #	Popup Image	Roadname and Number*	Body Style	Description	AV MIB	AV MIB Lighted
2631	Image	UP 4056	Smoothside Coach "Roomette"	Yellow,Gray,Gray Roof/Red	12-15	15-20
2632	Image	UP 5907	Smoothside Combine "Baggage"	Yellow,Gray,Gray Roof/Red	12-15	15-20
2634	Image	UP 9052	Smoothside Observation "Tail Car"	Yellow,Gray,Gray Roof/Red	12-15	15-20
2641	Image	C&NW (none)	Smoothside Roomette	Yellow,Green,Black Roof/Yellow,Black, Black Stripe, "Roomette"	12-15	15-20
2642	Image	C&NW 322	Smoothside Combine "Baggage"	Yellow,Green,Black Roof/Yellow,Black, Black Stripe	12-15	15-20
2644	Image	C&NW 930	Smoothside Observation "Tail Car"	Yellow,Green,Black Roof/Yellow,Black, Black Stripe	12-15	15-20
2651	Image	PRR (none)	Smoothside Coach "Roomette"	Tuscan Red (Brown),Black Roof/Yellow, Yellow Stripe Pullman/"Huron Rapids"	12-15	15-20
2652	Image	PRR 6535	Smoothside Combine "Baggage"	Tuscan Red (Brown),Black Roof/Yellow, Yellow Stripe	12-15	15-20
2654	Image	PRR (none)	Smoothside Observation "Tail Car"	Tuscan Red (Brown),Black Roof/Yellow, Yellow Stripe Pullman/"Mountain View"	12-15	15-20

Corrugated Streamlined Passenger Cars

Catalog #	Popup Image	Roadname and Number*	Body Style	Description	AV MIB	AV MIB Lighted
2661	Image	ATSF 1464	Corrugated Coach	Silver/Black	12-15	15-20
2662	Image	ATSF (none)	Corrguated RPO/Combine "Baggage"	Silver/Black	12-15	15-20
2664	Image	ATSF 644	Corrugated Observation	Silver/Black	12-15	15-20
2666	Image	PC 1008	Corrugated Coach	Silver/Black	12-15	15-20
2667	Image	PC 8970	Corrguated RPO/Combine "Baggage"	Silver/Black	12-15	15-20
2669	Image	PC (none)	Corrugated Observation	Silver/Black "Genesee River"	12-15	15-20
			Underside Image	Interior Image
2671	Image	SP (none)	Corrugated Coach	Orange, Black, Red/White "Daylight" Colors	12-15	15-20
2672	Image	SP (none)	Corrguated RPO/Combine "Baggage"	Orange, Black, Red/White "Daylight" Colors	12-15	15-20
2674	Image	SP (none)	Corrugated Observation	Orange, Black, Red/White "Daylight" Colors	12-15	15-20

*Some A1G passenger cars did not have roadnumbers. (Some prototype passenger cars didn't either.)
AV = Approximate Value (US$ range)
AM = As Manufactured, MIB = Mint In Box.
Abbreviations: Hld=Herald, R/N=Roadname, L/R=Left/Right Side of Car