i have 5 MDC 50’s overland/pullman passenger coaches and a business car i want to make interiors for. can anyone tell me if there is any model railroad manufacturer out there that makes HO scale seat for old time passenger cars?
SInce no one else has jumped in here, I will:
I did a quick google search for " MDC overland model railroad interiors" and only really turned up another thread here on this forum about the different MDC passenger cars.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard mention of interiors for the older passenger cars, which is a shame.
You might have to adapt a more modern interior model…even on a seat-by-seat basis by trimming to fit. MAybe you will be lucky and not need to do to much trimming.
Try doing a more exhaustive google search and see if you come up with anything better. Try “overland passenger interiors” or Overland Railroad car interiors" or MDC Model rairoad passenger car interiors" or something like that. keep trying you may come up with something! {right now I’m to tired to thoroughly check for you}}
If you do, post it here as I am sure others would be interested as well. I have a few that might like interiors too.
I found seats at the Walther’s site. Old time seats.
Some assembly required. They have some decent detail as I have some of them.
Bitter Creek has cast metal HO scale seats but they are are cast in lead the last I knew. Kind of plain.
They have 1860 to 1910 HO scale stuff.
Rich
Grandt Line makes a classic 1880-1900 style coach seat in HO; you can find it in the Walthers online catalog searching for part number 300-5049. These look like the real old fashioned passenger car seaet (such as you can enjoy at the Midcontinent RR Museum in North Freedom WI), these are the iron frame plush seats where the conductor comes around at the end of the line and pushes the seat back to the other side so you are facing forward again.
Having said that, unless you plan on a removable roof, you see so little detail through the HO scale windows of a coach that even an approximation of a coach seat might be all that is needed. A small block of balsa with a cardstock backing for the seat back might give as much visual accuracy as the Grandt Line plastic castings which, sight unseen, are probably exquisite. If you include some figures you need even less detail on the seats since the head and shoulders are mostly what you see in the window.
Dave Nelson
Search for coach interiors or trolley interiors. Go to Google Books and search for “MCB Cyclopedia”. That has pictures of passenger car components from 1888. Look at the interios shots and seats to see what you want. Then search for passenger car and trolley car interiors or passenger car details. Don’t get too specific in your search.
You will be looking for bench seats with metal sides that sit on a pedastal. They will be "flop over"seats where the backs are hinged and can be moved to either side of the seat so they can face either end of the car. I know somebody makes them because they were common to almost all coaches and commuter cars and trollies up into the 1930’s.
I cut down and kitbashed IHC coach interiors for MDC Harriman coaches. They worked out OK. Now the problem is finding IHC interiors. [|(]