Passenger Car Interiors

Looks very nice.

wow those look fantastic!

Very nice! I've been thinking about doing that to a few of my cars and your pictures have sealed the deal.  

very nice!

Very, very nicely executed in every respect.

A couple of questions:  How did you do the UP script and board above the windows, and the car name below the windows?

And who was the vendor of the drumhead?

Again, very well done, and thanks for sharing.

You did a great job on those.

Art

Very nice work. I especially like the drumhead and the idea of having passengers on the rear platform. The contrasting edge on some of the tables is also a nice touch. Is the dark  colored table actually wood-grained? I can't tell for sure, but it kind of looks like it. 

Here's a K-Line business car interior I did a while back. Just a paint job, but what a difference!

Before

After 

Hi Carl

The decals are Microscale and are getting hard to find and the drumhead kits come from Tomar Industries,very njce people deal with,good service.

Mikey

Hi Southwest,

The table is part of the Kline plastic white interior,you can also carpet the floor with adhesive back felt sold at stores like Michaels.

Mikey,

Your changes look great.  I just got my first set of passenger cars and was thinking about updating the interiors, so thanks for the pictures and ideas.

What size people figures did you use?  I took one of my cars apart (Lionel NYC Baby Madison, 6-81754) and the seats look more suited for HO size figures.

Very nice improvement to this car.

you can also carpet the floor with adhesive back felt sold at stores like Michaels.

Great idea! 

Very nice job.

i plan on doing this to my ESE cars. anyone know of any good COLOR photos of the empire state's interior circa 1941???? i want to try to match colors as close as possible. carpet, upholstery, etc.

That is great!  There's a lot of detail work in those, what a fantastic look it gives.

I've found that S-scale figures fit better in most MTH or Lionel passenger cars.  The true 1:48 or 1:50 figures are too big as a rule.  I have a bunch of 1:75 figures I found on eBay some time back, I've used those in a number of cars.

Steve,

I would go with HO people in the baby madisons,I have to cut the legs off of the Golden Gate Depot people for the 18 inch Lionel,MTH and K Line Cars.

Mikey

Awesome, remember seeing it on the O Gauge Union Pacific Thread

Enjoy your projects.  The Kadee coupled Lionel cars looked much better than stock.  Almost got me convienced to do mine that way.

Thank you everyone for the ideas.  I have MTH Madison cars, and while I have not taken the roofs off, they look like they have nice interiors with everything the same color of course.  I want to add passengers, because they way they are, it looks like my railroad is operating its passenger service at a total loss.