Thanks to Hotwater for helping me locate the mth Illinois central city of Miami set. Does anyone build custom passenger cars? I'd like to have an accurate passenger set. Thank you.
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Just saw that set on the wall at Berwyn Toy Trains!! He has a couple of nice IC sets right now....
Yes he does. He had a panama limited set that just sold. I've been looking for that for a long time.
windycitysaint posted:Thanks to Hotwater for helping me locate the mth Illinois central city of Miami set. Does anyone build custom passenger cars? I'd like to have an accurate passenger set. Thank you.
If you have the funds, Dan Pantara is absolutely the best!!! He only makes full scale, 2-Rail equipment, but there are no finer passenger cars available.
I heard about him. Do you have his contact information.
windycitysaint posted:I heard about him. Do you have his contact information.
No. You might have to Google him, as he recently moved from Hinsdale, to a western suburb, in order to be closer to his kids & grandkids. Dan is expensive, and takes awhile, but there is nobody better!
I found his contact number. Which suburb? I'm located in Bartlett.
Hot Water posted:windycitysaint posted:I heard about him. Do you have his contact information.
No. You might have to Google him, as he recently moved from Hinsdale, to a western suburb, in order to be closer to his kids & grandkids. Dan is expensive, and takes awhile, but there is nobody better!
+1. Dan is a perfectionist and does excellent work. HW is correct this could take a couple of years. Not sure how he handles complete custom train builds, but I know when he does interiors for Wasatch and other brands of brass cars he does them assembly line style, where he does groups of the same type of car (chair, diner, sleeper, etc.) at the same time. Amazing sight to see a dozen Wasatch cars dismantled waiting for Dan to install the interiors.
BH
I also will vouch for Allan G. Not only does he do buildings but he does freight car's and very recently passenger cars too. If you have pics and specs, he can do your project.
You can figure that Dan Pantera, aka Calumet Car Works, charges about $650 per car. If you supply the car it would cost less. Because of the cost Dan usually does one or two cars of a train at a time rather than the entire train.
Nice photo John! In this case a picture is truly worth a thousand words. You just can't hardly describe what Dan does. It's amazing in my book.
Butch
there are others as well.
Bob
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Just how custom do these guys do? I'd love a scale model of my grandfather's passenger car.
sinclair posted:Just how custom do these guys do? I'd love a scale model of my grandfather's passenger car.
All it takes is:
1) drawings of the car.
2) Money!
Hot Water posted:sinclair posted:Just how custom do these guys do? I'd love a scale model of my grandfather's passenger car.
All it takes is:
1) drawings of the car.
2) Money!
I be leave the Eagle car built will set you back about 1800-2500. I is a one of a kind. But is not for sale.
It has everything full interior and lighting. I think also it is a recent 1 st place model contest winner at O scale West 2016.
One of Dan's UP 4800 dining cars is currently available for $450. John
@windycitysaint posted:Does anyone build custom passenger cars?
Look in the mirror; you can! 😊
Find some reasonably appropriate kits, gather up some parts and go for it...
I understand that one's time can be limited, but look at this way: back in the day (not so long ago) kit building was the norm; and now with the internet, finding and gathering what you need is much easier.
Just a thought...
Mark in Oregon
Have both of you two guys noticed that that this thread is almost 5 years old? I wonder if the original poster is even still interested.
Yes... but if you haven't seen it before, it's new.
I see a lot of older threads get resurrected (I do it all the time) because... you never know.
I don't think it's a big deal...at least I hope it isn't.
Mark in Oregon
I've built a number of my own passenger cars only because no one makes what I want. Building one is very time consuming and at times frustrating so I couldn't imagine building for anyone but myself.
I just finished this C&O Pullman Standard 5 bedroom/buffet/lounge/observation but it's taken about two years of on and off work.
It's an old American Lightweight Car Company kit with Union Station Products car sides and a lot of extra detail parts from Precision Scale, Scale City, Delta Models, and others. Rides on K-Line trucks.
Ken
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Beautiful.... that's what I'm talking about!!! 👍 🙂
Back when I first got into the hobby, that's just what we did... build things.
Mark in Oregon
I’m still here hot water. I started a thread on making a scale illinois central city of Miami set from Golden gate depot.
