I was looking through my excess cars and came across two athearn b&o pullman passenger cars. Ones a coach and the other is a rpo. I like the look of them and really don’t want to paint them. The problem is that I model CSX in the early 90’s in northeast ohio and they would stick out like a sore thumbs if I ran them in a passenger consist.
I thought about making a excursion train but decided against that. I was wondering what would I have to do to make them into a MOW or a track geomontry car. What cars would I have to add to make them either.
Andy
Add HEP connections to them and make them Private cars on the end of an Amtrak Train. I have done that to a number of my cars.
James.
Indeed–it’s not too uncommon to see special excursion cars slapped onto the back of passenger consists.
To convert them to MoW cars, you could either paint them a common MoW color (that light MoW green, or orange, or Pullman green) or leave the old paintjob, weather the heck out of it, add a few dings, scuffs, rust spots and and crudely-attached metal patches, and just paint over the old markings and apply a quick MoW decal and number.
The RPO is probably fine as-is, but the coach might need a few windows to be covered over with plywood (some basswood scrap) or metal (styrene, or just paint the plastic window with aluminum paint and streak rust over it) to represent a tool/work car of some sort.
Thanks for the feedback. I’m going to start some of jetrock’s suggestions ovver the week end hopefully but I have another quick questsion. To make it a mow what other cars would I add to make it more prototypical?
Andy
An inexpensive track cleaning car to make your MOW truely functional.
Andy,
take a look at this topic and posts about MOW equipment:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12678
You can also take off the trucks and use them as storage buildings set in the yard, between tracks. There was a black and white picture of the Burlington doing this in an OLD MR. I think it was from the 1960’s.