I recently completed aTest and Research car for the AP&W. The following are two 'under-construction' photos.
And here is what the completed car looks like.
I converted the car from a Bachmann Spectrum heavyweight combine, with windows cut out of an Eastern Car Works passenger car kit. I removed most of the underframe details and added Hi-Tech Details GE "EUC" boxes for equipment/battery boxes, along with a scratch built fuel tank (to feed the "onboard" generator) to which I added sight glasses made from modified Hi-Tech Details F-unit sight glasses and Details West GE fuel fillers. I also replaced the factory trucks with modified Walthers passenger car trucks, replaced the swinging coupler pockets with Sergent EN87's, and added work tables and computers from a Faller interior detail set. On the roof I added BLMA A/C units along with Details West antennas and GPS unit and a Utah Pacific smoke vent. Reversing the baggage doors provided the modenized look, the original end doors and diaphrams were replaced by Pikestuff doors, and a Details West cab-unit back-up light with a red MV lens helped fill out the detailing. A Rapido Easy-Peasy lighting kit provides interior lighting. Testors Deep Sea Blue is the AP&W's "Engineering" color, while Sewalls Point -the name of the car- was an important location on one of the AP&W's predecessor roads; it was the Eastern terminus -and deep sea port- of the Virginian Railroad. Today, Sewalls Point is Naval Station Norfolk; reportedly the Virginian's roundhouse location is now occupied by the Navy Exchange and it's parking lot!
And here is what the completed car looks like.
I converted the car from a Bachmann Spectrum heavyweight combine, with windows cut out of an Eastern Car Works passenger car kit. I removed most of the underframe details and added Hi-Tech Details GE "EUC" boxes for equipment/battery boxes, along with a scratch built fuel tank (to feed the "onboard" generator) to which I added sight glasses made from modified Hi-Tech Details F-unit sight glasses and Details West GE fuel fillers. I also replaced the factory trucks with modified Walthers passenger car trucks, replaced the swinging coupler pockets with Sergent EN87's, and added work tables and computers from a Faller interior detail set. On the roof I added BLMA A/C units along with Details West antennas and GPS unit and a Utah Pacific smoke vent. Reversing the baggage doors provided the modenized look, the original end doors and diaphrams were replaced by Pikestuff doors, and a Details West cab-unit back-up light with a red MV lens helped fill out the detailing. A Rapido Easy-Peasy lighting kit provides interior lighting. Testors Deep Sea Blue is the AP&W's "Engineering" color, while Sewalls Point -the name of the car- was an important location on one of the AP&W's predecessor roads; it was the Eastern terminus -and deep sea port- of the Virginian Railroad. Today, Sewalls Point is Naval Station Norfolk; reportedly the Virginian's roundhouse location is now occupied by the Navy Exchange and it's parking lot!
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