Model Railroading > Summer Project: SF Overland

If you follow my posts, you might remember I live an amphibious live style.  Since retiring 10yrs ago (oh crap! 10yrs?!!) I now live on The Hill (Dutch Flat) Winter/Spring and 6mo on the water (Santa Barbara) Summer/Fall.
For the aquatic portion of this I pick a few projects to bring along- mostly things that don't require an active layout, like car building.  This Summer's major project  aboard The Good Boat Marika Paige will be finishing this train...

This is the pre-war San Francisco Overland.  At the time the Overland was the SP's premier train East-West over Donner.  It was an all-Pullman service except briefly, during the depression years, when a chair car was added.
I've been collecting older brass cars that are proper for this train.  This video is a test run, to confirm an Athearn SP Mt-4 could handle the brass cars on the grades of the club layout in Crockett, CA.  It did (I might even get away with one more car), so: onward!
This Summer I will finish out the cars with glazing, interiors, diaphrams, and maybe some additional underbody detail.  I'm not planning to add lighting other than a drumhead and markers on the observation car. 
BTW:  The rear car of the Overland in these years were those of the Pullman Co's Crystal series.  I've lettered mine Crystal Peak- the car that went on to be today's Virginia City.
SR

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First rate models. Thanks for posting your video. 

Put some passengers in the seats before you install the window glass. Give the Lounge Attenadant and the Porters something to do!

I dunno- after 32yrs of “something to do”, empty seats represent something of a breather…
SR

Very nice. I look forward to seeing the train when you get the diaphrams installed, though it looks great already.

Victor Baird