Just in time - as my new #12 Mikado rolled up today - I completed my coach #20, the EBT President’s Business Car. This was a very elaborate conversion of a standard board-and-batten coach, including fancy furnture, it’s own heating, and bevelled glass windows (!) Here’s the original, now often used as an end-of-train car as it has a brake valve for the conductor. (Oct 2009)
And here’s my #20.
The end railings were cut on a laser very neatly by Alan Friedland’s G.A.L. (www.thegalline.com) and I used them complete on my other business car, (the bright burgundy one from parts by G.A.L.) In this case I had made the frame from brass tube and strip, so I cut the styrene centers out and glued them in my frames.
The interior has a full complement of carpets and chairs, including a day bed/sofa plus two of Bruce’s swivel armchairs. #20 had wicker furniture in some photos, and I found a 1/24th set of large chairs, so I added 1/4" to the legs and added them at the conference end of the car.
And a final look at the observation end.
