Lighted Baggage Car with interior project. Baggage car is an add on to the LionChief Santa Fe SuperChief set. It is unlit. But the trucks are the same as the lit coaches but without the pickups.
The pickup roller was available from Lionel, but the outer wheel pickup strip was not (except for the mounting screw). Made my own from .003 phosphor bronze sheet (.005 would be better but couldn't find any). Did both trucks.
Floor insert was made from 1/16" polystyrene sheet with a wooden scale floor pattern printed on card stock and glued to the styrene with 3M Super77 Spray adhesive.
Made the light strip from same styrene sheet with holes that lined up with the LED mounting posts on the roof that get attached with black #2-28 self tapping screws for plastic. Cut two 3 LED sections from a roll and stuck them on opposite ends of the strip. A ZH-2P connector is the interface.
Bought two sets of "O Scale Luggage Cart Suitcase set Platform Accessories Multicolor" from an Ebay vendor. 24 pieces of luggage altogether. They already had a base color so I used various permanent marker colors to shade the textured part of the luggage then used the markers for the hinges, handles, etc.
Some wire routing under the floor.
I used one of the Greg M's PCB's that I had Osh Park make for me two years ago, soldered the components on it, tested it, mounted it in the center out of sight and it looks like this:
Completed baggage car on the track.
John