So my project tonight when I got home from work was to take apart one of my Atlas O NJ Transit Coaches. This is somewhat similar to my other post about taking apart the MTH Bombardier Coaches. The point tonight was so that I could see the cabin interior and see first hand up close (can't really see through the narrow windows) what the floor and seat set-up is. I don't have a functioning layout at the moment - and the ceiling loop is on hold - so I will get my railroad fix at home by painting some cars and making a diorama for my 1/43 vehicles. The trains will still get to run, but only on the club layout. So my aim is to post in this thread once in a while with interior painting updates for both my NJ Transit and Tri-Rail coaches.
By opening up the interior I can have an idea of the process I'm going to do in the near future with painting the interior to get rid of the monochromatic tan* look and also to put some commuter passenger figures inside. *-After opening it up, I saw that the interior seats were orange and not tan. Here are some coach interior shots of the NJ Transit prototype on the internet.
I have never taken a car apart before, so no better time than the present. Can't find an exploded diagram anywhere and for the most part the Atlas O website is pretty much useless in providing technical information, so I took a multitude of photos of every step I made so that I would know what it looked like before and how and where to put every back together in reverse order.
It looked pretty straightforward until I got to a point where it looks like the coach floor is connected by to the rest of the wiring by a part that is soldered, so I called it quits for the night. That's enough today and I can go deeper into the disassembling another day. I don't have a soldering iron in my stable (yes, you read that right ), so I'll have to remedy that situation.
Here are some (not all) of the photos: