SP Interior Passenger Car Colors

[Anonymous]

I am building a Branchline SP Pullman 8-1-2 Sleeper. Can anyone tell me what the color of the seats, walls, ceilings and floor would be, especially the seats.

[Anonymous]

I'd love to know too. I have a bunch of Rivarossi cars that will be getting interiors and passengers this spring.

-dave

[AntonioFP45]

Justair,

On the streamlined cars during the late 1960s, Southern Pacific used dark red seats (similar to "Caboose Red". The walls and ceilings were a cream / beige color.

Hope this can be of some help!

[gvdobler]

dpaton

I have twelve of the last run Rivarossi cars with the interiors and new trucks. I also have 4 of the earlier version with interiors, but not the updated trucks and they have truck mounted couplers.

Have you modified any to the body mounted trucks and R25 trucks?? And have you installed any of the light kits, do you like them if you have?

I am going to detail and populate mine as well. I think I will get the painted figures, as painting a few hundred sitting figures sounds like a chore.

Jon - Las Vegas

[Anonymous]

Jon-

All of mine sport Jay-Bee coupler pads and #5 or #8 couplers (depending on what was handy, they both work down to ~24"r). The wheelsets are all Proto 36" Rp25 flatbacks, and are rolling in the stock truck frames with the brakes either heated and bent, or just clipped, since they severely interfere with the larger wheels. None as yet have received lighting, and the only ones with interiors are from a B set (mid 90s vintage) I picked up on closeout last year. Those want the passengers and paint first.

The lighting kits I've seen around are all for the newer Walthers kits, and I'm skeptical about their ability to fit my 30+ year old cars. Most are still in the original AHM boxes, if that says anything. Have you fit any of the lighting boards yet? Do you know which ones fit?

Painted figures command a steep price at my LHS, so I may spend a saturday enlisting my mother and sister and father to help me paint some of the seated 100 packs, as I figure I'll need about 300 to fill the cars. A small dot of rubber cement on the end of a clipped toothpick aparently makes a wonderful armature for them. If I buy the pizza and find some comfortable chairs, I might just be able to sucker them into it [:D]

Now I need to figure out how to mask the windows off so when I paint the interiors I don't overspray the clear styrene. Hmm....

-dave