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Here are a few pictures of my new Lionel Heavyweight Pennsylvania Diner with the green windows removed and replaced with clear plastic.  The plastic came from a Walthers Clamshell box for Modular Building parts.  Any clear plastic will work.  Transparency sheets from Office Max would do.

The four 1/16" square LEDs were painted Testor's "International Orange", then I adjusted the brightness by removing some of the orange color by scraping some paint off the LED.  (Tamiya "Clear Orange" could also be used.  I used what I had.)  The car is now dimmer, yet not orange.  The green aquarium effect of the original car is gone.  I did leave the green window on the Kitchen section because there is no interior in the kitchen.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

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bob2 posted:

Are those new tooling cars?  They really look good in the photos above, unlike the cars of ten years ago that I just dumped for a hundred bucks each.  How long are they?

What cars are you referring to?  I have a set of Lionel Heavyweight cars from 2003 in Southern Crescent livery and the are stunning!

Don

John Rowlen posted:

Here are a few pictures of my new Lionel Heavyweight Pennsylvania Diner with the green windows removed and replaced with clear plastic.  The plastic came from a Walthers Clamshell box for Modular Building parts.  Any clear plastic will work.  Transparency sheets from Office Max would do.

The four 1/16" square LEDs were painted Testor's "International Orange", then I adjusted the brightness by removing some of the orange color by scraping some paint off the LED.  (Tamiya "Clear Orange" could also be used.  I used what I had.)  The car is now dimmer, yet not orange.  The green aquarium effect of the original car is gone.  I did leave the green window on the Kitchen section because there is no interior in the kitchen.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Whaddya mean no kitchen?  

Figures1

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Good topic. I have always wondered about the green tint, and haven’t been able to verify the accuracy. I am going to change out all my passenger cars windows. The original green reacted with glue and appears like a mold is growing on them. I’ve tried cleaning and nothing helps. Thanks for posting your pictures. The cars look great. 

C&Osteam posted:

Good topic. I have always wondered about the green tint, and haven’t been able to verify the accuracy. I am going to change out all my passenger cars windows. The original green reacted with glue and appears like a mold is growing on them. I’ve tried cleaning and nothing helps. Thanks for posting your pictures. The cars look great. 

Here is a previous thread related to this topic and showing a picture of the glue reaction.  It has some additional information related to this topic.

Passenger Tinted Windows Replacement

Volphin posted:
John Rowlen posted:

Here are a few pictures of my new Lionel Heavyweight Pennsylvania Diner with the green windows removed and replaced with clear plastic.  The plastic came from a Walthers Clamshell box for Modular Building parts.  Any clear plastic will work.  Transparency sheets from Office Max would do.

The four 1/16" square LEDs were painted Testor's "International Orange", then I adjusted the brightness by removing some of the orange color by scraping some paint off the LED.  (Tamiya "Clear Orange" could also be used.  I used what I had.)  The car is now dimmer, yet not orange.  The green aquarium effect of the original car is gone.  I did leave the green window on the Kitchen section because there is no interior in the kitchen.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Whaddya mean no kitchen?  

Figures1

Looks great! Who makes those chefs?

Nice work - and, to say the least, a lot of it.

A (slight) green tint was common in Lionel modern passenger cars of 10+ years ago, when they still used plastic strips (and sometimes glued them in with a solvent that corroded them). Never understood what they used the aquarium tint in later cars. Anyway, looks much better as modified by John Rowlen.

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