Who has figures (people) inside their passenger trains? I am going to start populating my passenger cars with some riders and I would love to see some examples. My Metrolink commuter trains are going to have very light ridership, while my steam excursion is going to be nearly sold out. Please show me some pictures of passengers. Also pictures of custom interiors would be cool. K thx [8D]
I buy my passengers off Bay by the hundred. I primarily use seated 1:100 passengers inside my passenger cars so that they fit the chairs and 1:87 for standing figures. Their detail is poor but inside it isn’t noticeable.
The car is a Bachmann Full Dome Kitbashed into an SP ¾ Dome Lounge car.
I run N-scale, that being said, my passenger cars are full of double amputees.
herrinchoker
Every passenger car that I have finished with an interior has passengers. The loss of IHC with their line of HW and LW interior kits has put a krimp in my plans for some cars. My goal are all passenger cars with lighted interiors and passengers.
An IHC interior in an Athearn HW car, still in progress
An IHC LW coach with interior kitbashed to match MEC prototype
Same car outside
MEC 244 LW Coach with Lighting and passengers (IHC)
BM 14 Section Sleeper (Walthers) and Pullman 12-1 Sleeper (Rivarossi) - the 12-1 does not have an interior yet
BM84 Diner Mountaineer (Rivarossi)
Not liking amputations, add me to the 1:100 Chinese imported people camp - although right now I am putting them in buses, as my tourist train (up next) is not ready yet.
Looks like I got the same set as Mel did (100pcs 1:100 HO TT Painted Model Train Passenger set), although that’s not too surprising as there’s only a few sets of Seated passengers offererd on Amazon as opposed to the standing passengers. Amusing thing is the seller, offering free shipping, originally quoted a date in mid July (OK by me, I’m in no rush for these) - I got the figures in late May.
No passengers in any of my passenger cars.
Why bother? For the most part, you cannot see passengers on the prototype anyway.
Rich
Business cars and my coaches only. Considering to do my diner and sleeper.
I have several passenger cars with people in them. For the most part they are Walther’s cars with interiors. However, the most recently populated cars are a pair of Athearn BB Santa Fe dome cars that I installed Palace Car Company upper level/dome kits in.
The interior installation.
How it looks from outside the car in close up. The windows were tinted as a part of the project.
The Palace Car Company has “universal” interior kits that can be adapted to most passenger cars as well as components like seats, stairways and dining room fittings. Worth a look if you are thinking about populating your passenger fleet.
I’ve added passengers and a crew to the Bee, my doodlebug, but still haven’t crewed all of my steam locomotives.
The figures were an unpainted garage sale find, and may be OO scale, as they don’t fit too well into the Pikestuff seats, but they look okay when the roof is in place:
The engineer/motorman is from the same set, while the brakeman is from a Bachmann steam loco. As you can see in the photo below, the Erie Northshore is a leader in employing the disabled:
None of the rest of my passenger equipment is populated, and it’s a task not high on the list of things to do.
I’m still working on the locomotive crews, though:
Vehicle drivers and passengers take a bit of a beating, too:
Wayne
Traveling in style…India.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
I always put passengers in my passenger cars, and crewmen in my engines and cabooses. I generally use Preiser unpainted figures and paint them myself, they’re great quality and it’s a lot cheaper to paint your own compared to using pre-decorated figures.
Actually, some of my boxcars that have sliding doors have a worker inside with some crates or barrels, so when the car is spotted at an industry it looks like the car is being unloaded (sorry if link doesn’t work):
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One problem that I think holds people back from adding figures is they grossly overestimate how many they need. Let’s take an HO 80-seat heavyweight coach. The seats are so close together you can only fit one person on each pair. Not every seat needs to be filled (unless you’re modelling a commuter train) - people get up and walk around, not all seats get sold. I find maybe 15-20 people or so, maybe 8-10 on each side, turns out to look good.
Real nice pictures and cars everyone. Keep them coming. I copied and pasted the boxcar link. Real cool. I have a FTRA hobo riding in one of my boxcars and several of my boxcars have loads inside.
My steam loco has two crews inside of it because they all worked on restoring it so they all want to ride up front. lol My other locos still need engineers and brakemen.
My automobiles and trucks all have drivers if they are on a street, not parked. Some cars also have passengers. There is also a school bus with a driver and a handful of children. Some passengers are amputees while others have had butt reductions. Most are unpainted seated figures from Preiser. I do like the look of some of the Walthers seated passengers so I’m going to get some of them. I might try the 1:100 figures also. If I don’t like what they are wearing I can repaint them.
[8D]Because it’s my hobby and that’s what I do. It’s the next level of detail. I’ve been at this since the 1970s. I probably have around a thousand people. They might be my favorite part of the hobby. I have people everywhere doing everything. I even have a woman sitting on the toilet in a restroom inside a restaurant that you can see if you look inside the window. Yes those are white panties by her knees. There
Here’s the thread from a couple years ago on my detailing of my Amtrak cars.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/216497.aspx
And here’s the video of the finished train. I also have two Spectrum F40PH’s and an Athearn “SDP40F”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6GoacG2GrE
Kevin
The only passenger equipment I have people in are those that are lighted. Unlit passenger cars I don’t bother with. The passenger equipment that I have that have people installed are mostly self propelled, including “The Comet” (a NH trainset), a NH Brill 250 Doodlebug, and another (but older) NH Brill Doodlebug. All these are brass, and for the Doodlebugs I had to add seats, too (but just Rix ones).
I don’t believe in using sub-scale figures. I will file, cut and re-glue every figure (if necessary) before I would ever consider using sub-scale figures.
The only problem with putting people in passenger cars is that they do look awfully silly in the coach yard. [:D]
Paul A. Cutler III
The only passengers I have in passenger cars are in the domes of dome cars.
But the rest of my passenger cars don’t even have interiors, let alone people.
As mentioned by Rich, 98% of the time you cannot see the passengers from the outside in real life.
Sheldon
Not a person in mine. Too many cars, too few people, and I prefer mine empty.
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To me, passengers in HO scale trains look toy-like, an appearance that I wish to avoid at all costs.
Rich