Who has passengers in their passenger trains?

[De Luxe]

All my passenger trains are filled with passengers (1:100) because all my passenger trains are lighted and I really like seeing passengers inside my passenger cars. Especially nice to see in diners, domes and open observation ends. It´s the passengers and lighting (and in some cases the interiors) that make a passenger train a really expensive project sometimes. Hate the total price but the result is nice!

[chutton01]

De Luxe

All my passenger trains are filled with passengers (1:100) because all my passenger trains are lighted and I really like seeing passengers inside my passenger cars.

I was thinking about this thread last night as, coming home from a dinner with friends, I was stopped at a LIRR grade crossing about 4 auto-lengths back, and as the train passed by (yes, the interior was lit), I could clearly see the passengers in the train, maybe not the icons on their smartphone or the style of rings they wore, but hair/faces/skin color/clothing - they weren't shillouttes, and don't give me this "stay 3 feet back, covering your eyes and looking at the floor and you can't tell the difference" nonsense - you can see interior passengers even at reasonable modeling distances.
BTW poster 'LensCapOn', this was indeed in June 2015 unless I fell into a time warp again (I hate when that happens).

Hate the total price but the result is nice!

You must mean the cost of the interiors, because on Amazon you can get 100 seated 1:100 figures (painted, but they do need touch up and dullcoating) for $8.00; two packs ($16.00) of overseas specials judiciously placed could readily imply a crowded 4-car commuter train. You probably could do even better with prices if you hunt around.  Heck, if you are not going to light up the interior, in the areas where the view is somewhat obstructed you can go all "John Allen" with painted blobs of shaped putty on sprues.

Cheap packs of 100 1:100  seated figures? "No excuses anymore" - Alice In Chains
(There's also 1:200 figures for true N-Scale, but not sure if seated figures are available)

 

[sebamat]

I take care to match the colors of the clothing to the time modelled: the bright colors of the seventies look strange in 2000 or even more in 1920.

That is a problem with the chinese figures... no one ever clothed in those colors!

 

sebamat

[hobo9941]

All my passenger cars have people in them. I even have a white coated waiter in the dining cars. I thought I had some pics, but can't find them right now.

[chutton01]

Apropos of nothing, the July 2015 Walthers flyer arrived in the mail today. In the pages for the current Walthers Name train, the 1960s version of the Pennsylvania Broadway Limited, the 'Deluxe Edition' set includes "90+ Preiser passengers and crew figures installed throughout the train", so clearly Walthers thinks model passenger figures are a selling point.

Speaking of figures, Walthers really has to dial back the spotty black wash weathering of their figures - the family figures in front of the Dairy Queen on the flyer cover look like they just came from filming an action sequence in a muddy swamp...

[LensCapOn]

richhotrain

 

 

LensCapOn

Dude!   It's 2015!     Who's running passenger trains?*

 

 

 

Now, here is a man who fails to understand the concept of model railroading.  

 

Rich

 

Oh I understand the concept all right. :-) Just offering a different view.

 

A standing joke is I'm going to mount "YOU ARE NOW LEAVING REALITY" in the train room. (mostly for rivet-counters)  Mine is contemporary, with 'bends", yours can be 1942 (with passenger trains).

 

Hey I even like passenger trains, and am not beyond having a steam engine or two. (need to blank out the Norfolk And Western)