Restoring/ repainting passenger cars

[cnrglen]

Quite a bit of progress over the past couple days.
First I started to fit the windows/roofs back into the two lightweights. But then I realized the previous owner had sprayed all the glass in these two with testors dulcote to fog them over.

I tried a few methods to remove the fogging, isopropyl alcohol, easy-off oven cleaner didn't work so I tried wet sanding with fine sanding film. It seemed to work at first but I couldn't get the fine scratches out, even with plastic polish and my dremel tool's buffing wheel. So I decided just to cut the windows off the roof and install clear styrene windows , just as I had done with my doodlebug project.


After that I started in on the Kadee couple conversion kits. It took and evening to convert 4 pairs of trucks. Three lightweights and a heavyweight. I like how Kadee engineered an adjustment in to them for coupler length.

I didn't have any of the Rivarossi truck pins for two of the lightweights so I had to convert them to truck screws. I closed up the bolster openings with so styrene tubing.

and made some 'collars' for the truck screws

once the glue to dry I'll install them

On the other hand I did finish the heavyweight dining car. I managed to find both an interior and new trucks for it.


It's ready to run the rails now.
Last week I got 90 HO seated figures from China in the mail. In time I'll be painting them and adding them to the interiors.