Glenbrook Valley (Summit Pass set) Passenger Cars

[on30gn15]

Hey Y'all;

As there don't seem to be passenger cars factory painted for the Glenbrook Valley roadname from the Summit Pass freight set and I have this thing for passenger trains, there's a plan to "freelance" a few.

Here's the Summit Pass freight set


Hmmm . . . what color cars would look good with that loco's color scheme?
Let's do something other than Pullman Green, too common.

Yellow? Well, yellow reefer in set looks good with loco.
But, I've got the Virginia & Truckee set with yellow cars.

What else would be in the late 1870 to early 1880 style?

V&T had some light green cars, sort of a sage green. Maybe?

There's a PRR passenger set on hand and a maroon D&RG observation too.

GV loco has maroon running boards and tender top.

Let's see:
(changing loco from wood burner to coal burner, too)


That might fly.

What do y'all think?

[Loco Bill]

I would go with the orange color same as on the cab of the loco!  That would look sharp, with white lettering and a green letterboard, a hammered silver roof and a green belt stripe, all the green the same as the green on the tender!

Send pics when you are done!!

[on30gn15]

Send pics when you are done!!

Might be August.

My take on cab color is that it represents unpainted, varnished wood.
Come to think of it, have read that's how passenger cars got nickname "Varnish" as some earlier wooden cars were exactly that.

This comes in spray can http://www.testors.com/products/136060

Like the roof idea. that may well make a spiffy car.

How about this for lettering http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=90241&Category_Code=ALPHA&Product_Count=90

Description:
Ornate Railroad Alphabet and Numbers - White with Gold Shadow - Dimensions are: 1/4th, 3/32nd, 5/64th, 3/64th, 1/32nd lettering heights.

Have a combine kit and a spare caboose cupola with which intend to make one of those caboose-combine narrow gauge cars.
Okay, that may become GV's first passenger car.