Custom Golden Gate Depot Amtrak Pacific Parlour car

So here’s some pics of the process, starting with cutting & painting styrene strips, then gluing them to the car sides. & cutting a rectangular piece for that pacific parlour logo, then I repainted the trucks to match Amtrak. This was done by adding some grey to metallic silver paint.

walls were painted brown, then stained with an acrylic wood stain & interior repainted to better match the prototype.

I then used styrene to build the wine & cheese bar, added figures, and rebuilt the LED lights recycling the capacitor & bridge rectifier from the original  GGD board.

then I reassembled!

For those of you with Golden Gate Depot superliner reservations….. Any interest in seeing if Scott will make these cars? I emailed him.

Really Great Work !!!!!

@TrainBub posted:

Really Great Work !!!!!

Thank you!

@Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:

For those of you with Golden Gate Depot superliner reservations….. Any interest in seeing if Scott will make these cars? I emailed him.

Only if I can buy individual coach and sleeper cars. The GGD Amtrak El Cap are rare with less than 25 sets combined in both runs. And it was like "pulling teeth" for Scott M to do the Amtrak sets. More wanted the traditional SFEl Capitan sets.

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Only if I can buy individual coach and sleeper cars. The GGD Amtrak El Cap are rare with less than 25 sets combined in both runs. And it was like "pulling teeth" for Scott M to do the Amtrak sets. More wanted the traditional SFEl Capitan sets.

That’s Amtrak heritage. The car I made matches a modern Amtrak consist & would compliment the Amtrak superliners up for reservation on the GGD websight now. The pacific parlour cars were painted in phase III, IV, V, & VI and would not match the Amtrak El Capitan set from a few years ago.

This is very impressive work! Your client showed this off on FB (Amtrak Modelers) and we all loved it! I want to begin a project on a CB&Q diner soon, but where on earth can I find current O-scale Amtrak stripes? Or did you make/paint them yourself?

I have one of these cars standing by for painting into phase 3 to mix with the upcoming GGD Superliners.  Microscale used to offer O scale decals for these but not currently available.  Seeking a painter to stripe these in the future.

This looks outstanding! Really great modeling DJ!

@CharmCityAirLine posted:

This is very impressive work! Your client showed this off on FB (Amtrak Modelers) and we all loved it! I want to begin a project on a CB&Q diner soon, but where on earth can I find current O-scale Amtrak stripes? Or did you make/paint them yourself?

A buddy of mine made the decals & mailed them to me. I don’t know if any correctly sized Amtrak parlour car decals available.

@VistaDomeScott posted:

I have one of these cars standing by for painting into phase 3 to mix with the upcoming GGD Superliners.  Microscale used to offer O scale decals for these but not currently available.  Seeking a painter to stripe these in the future.

Phase III will be really nice. The stripe kinda does this dip down under the windows if I remember correctly.

@Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:

Phase III will be really nice. The stripe kinda does this dip down under the windows if I remember correctly.

Thats the one I want to have done, with the drop down area under the windows.   Painting that over the ribbing will not be easy.

Wonderful ❤️

Nice!