GEC's Layout Progress

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A few more pictures of things I've been working on-

Amtrak 3400 series cafeteria lounge, "Le Pub" car: This one is a car I'm very excited about. These cars were all St. Louis Car Co US Army Ambulance cars. When the army retired the train, many of these cars ended up on Amtrak. Ten of them became these lounge cars. Reportedly, they were very popular with passengers. These cars were not previously available, and these car sides are custom.

I had to alter the sides a little, as one of the doorways was to wide. I've polished the plastic smooth, but the only way to know will be to paint it. I'm still looking for some of the vent details. The underbody might also be trouble, but i'll worry about that later.





I'm also trying to build a HEP car for my GG1s. GG1s and E60CPs were steam generator equipped, and needed HEP cars to power modern cars like Amfleets. The most common kind were made from ex Army Kitchen cars (from the same train as the ambulance train above), but kits of these cars are hard to find.

Brass Car Sides makes an "Overlay" compatible with Rivarossi cars. These car is an ex UP long distance coach, and it was converted to a HEP car sometime prior to Amtrak. Amtrak eventually had three of these ex-UP coaches in service as generator cars. The insides were gutted and replaced with a pair of diesel gen-sets.

The model requires a lot of work still, since I need to redo the car ends, and I need to figure out the roof details, and how to properly model the windows. Though these cars show up frequently in pictures, its hard to identify which car is which of the three. Furthermore, details seemed to change frequently on these cars.





Next are my NKP Car Co NJ DOT coaches. these are ex PRR coached, Exx 21 roomette sleepers. These models should be easier than this one was, but this was my first core kit. I have a second one of these cars, as well as a sleeper-lounge, using the metal sides offered by NKP Car Co.





Here are my two new GP40FH-2 shells. Not much more to say about these, other than they are an interesting shape!



lastly, a brief look at my SIRT car kit. I have all the windows and decals. Unfortunately, this model will need to be cleaned up quite a bit before it is ready.