Hancock52 posted:That's fine work. The historical research on these cars is always rewarding. Lining the seating up to match the car windows is always a complicated job. More than once I have had to start over again.
I've posted elsewhere a photo essay on my latest dome project (in the Lionel 21" Excursion dome observation car) but I went a little overboard on the partying passengers. However like you in the dome I reconfigured the seating to match photos of the prototype (still in service in the UP Heritage Fleet) although I decided it would be far too complicated to try and match the upholstery:
(P.S. for some reason this first photo does not insert correctly in the post but it is attached below.)
BTW, I've figured out that the Swiss cheese effect is because K-Line used a limited number of passenger car floors and they came pre-drilled to accommodate just about any passenger car interior seating/detail configuration. Of course in those days the details were hand-applied.
Those photos look great Hancock52! Where did you find the plates and coffee pots? The full size overhead dome windows on your Lionel 21" 9000 series passenger car are exactly correct per the UP builders spec. In your cars these large windows allow a much nicer for your viewers to see all the fine details you added.
On K-Line cars they have a bar that crosses the window and blocks the view into the dome. This bar across the window was used on other railroads dome cars but never on the Union Pacific's 7000, 8000 or 9000 series dome cars built in the 1950's.
Also, now that I see how nice LED lighting looks in the dome area, I want to try that next. How did you get the table cloth effect?
