Modifyiing K-Line Passenger Cars

K-Line and MTH have made 15" cars with interiors and figures. You could modify the ones you linked to but it would be either expensive or very time consuming to do it depending on if you bought interiors and figures or fabricated your own interiors. I would suggest being patient and checking all the auction sites or post in the Wanted to Buy forum what you are looking for.

Pete

K-line, 15" Pennsy Era of Modernism cars with detailed interiors may not be readily available through many dealers but they are frequently available on eBay in 4, 6 and 8 car sets. I have the 8 car set myself.

Mike

I purchased K-line HW interior kits from Brasseur.  You could check with them to see if they have any for streamlined passenger cars.

O scale passenger car conversions are potentially a very time consuming as well as expensive project; I speak from experience sourcing the parts and assembling them.

One problem is that the interiors of K-Line, Lionel and MTH cars are not true O scale but more like S scale. That means that even if you can source basic interior parts like seats and passengers they need to be sub-O scale. 

But if you want to investigate for yourself a couple of pointers. Keil Line (now Scale City Designs) made lots of heavyweight car detailing parts, including interior seating and other fittings. They are made of cast metal and Scale City carry most of them. There are quite a few more S scale suppliers of passenger car interiors so look around online to see what's available and at what cost.

Frankly, unless you really want a long project I'd sit tight for a while and see if any MTH cars come up.

MTH ribbed cars on the Bay now. HERE

Norton & EZMIKE,

Yep, that would be a strategy.

Thanks.

coach joe posted:

I purchased K-line HW interior kits from Brasseur.  You could check with them to see if they have any for streamlined passenger cars.

Will do.  Thanks.

I second the recommendation for the MTH RailKing cars, you can get a very nice set with full interiors for less than the $175 for that new set you posted without interiors.  Adding interiors is a lot of work, been there, done that, don't care to do it again.