nachoman 2021 do something challenge

[nachoman]

I've had very little time for model railroading since the kids were born 4 years ago.  And to top it off my eyes started going bad a couple of years ago, and I don't have quite the eye for detail I once had.  So I thought I would pick something not too complicated that I can finish up just to say that I started and finished something.

Years ago I bought a Model Die Casting Harriman Observation car kit in HO scale, probably at a train show.  My thought was that my fictional railroad bought it as car for railroad dignitaries and other wealthy folks to go at the end of a train of mostly older open platform wooden coaches.  It has never looked right as the only closed vestibule steel car on the train.  So, I dug out an old round-roof Athearn coach from my youth that will mate well with the Harriman observation car.  I am fixing that one up right now.  I figure the coach will be for the common folk.  To round out my short train, I figure I need some kind of baggage or RPO.  

So, I won an unstarted MDC baggage car of ebay for a reasonable price.  My challenge will be to build the kit mostly as-is without fussing to much over added details.  I will try to utilize the parts of the kit rather than try to fix the various errors and lack of details because I know once I jump down that hole it will join the heap of other projects that are 90% complete but lack this or that.  I just want to get something done and feel good about that.