Here’s the interior of one of the cars I bought. I painted the seats, added passengers and a conductor, and am finishing up.

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I finished adding the rest of the dining car interior, including table cloths, food, a waiter and cook. Also a lot of other little stuff–glasses and bottles, boxes on the kitchen shelves, etc.

This is the waiter with the cheese plate
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Here are a couple more shots. I’m especially fond of the waiter with the cheese tray.

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Here are the passenger cars (along with the LGB baggage car and kit-bashed dining car) passing along the mainline.

Newqida coaches with new paint and interiors, including passengers. A lot of work went into these…

Here’s an overview of the completed restaurant car interior. Next up, weather the roof, add lights, and other electronics.

I’ve started work on bashing one of the Newqida passenger cars I bought into a dining/restaurant car. Here’s a look in the window at some of the diners. More later

Although I have some nice Piko and LGB stuff, my budget just can’t handle new (or even relatively lightly used) LGB rolling stock. However, I really wanted a set of passenger Cars to pull behind my LGB 2085D Mallet. A bit of searching showed me that the Newqida coaches, although not of LGB quality, could be painted and otherwise modified to give a good representation of Harz coaches appropriate to pull with my 0-6-6-0. Continue reading Bought a rake of coaches →

Here are some cars that I gave the girls to paint. These are Hartland Locomotive Works gondolas from their “make and take” min collection. The caboose belongs to the boy–who I didn’t trust with paint.