Back in 2019 I featured in a post a coach from the Green Bay & Northern, the freelanced road of an unknown OOldtimer. Since then two more passenger cars from this road caught my eye and have been added to the collection.

J-C Models combine

At the head of our little train is this combine. The J-C Models combine is not rare, but this one has an interior and also lights!

When it came to me the car was missing the steps and also had broken, unpainted S-C trucks. I’m not a fan of the look of unpainted trucks, and puzzled what to do.

Nason PRR coach

At the end of the train is seen this Nason PRR coach. I’ve always liked the look of this model which is somewhat rare I would say. It was nicely built up and also had lights (but no interior). When it came to me there was nothing at all on the underside, everything was missing as if stripped off to restore another model. I had reproduction Nason castings on hand and got things back up to spec.

The roof color is a darker brown than the combine, and it had no trucks. Digging around in my truck supply I found one single sideframe in a dark brown, and that gave me an idea, the combination looked very nice, so I made brown trucks for both cars.

The Scale-Craft coach

This car is the one described in the 2019 article, with a photo of it to be found there. Looking at the other cars I decided to make some changes — the roof was black and the trucks were black, recently painted, not really matching the model (I thought). I then found the brown S-C roof seen in the photo which matches visually the Nason coach roof, making a nice train, and worked up brown trucks.

So it all was good until I actually looked up the 2019 article! For I think it is clear that the S-C coach when it came to me had the black roof and trucks, I only repainted them. I should probably put those back on to keep the vision of the builder — but I’m really liking the new look, I’ll have to puzzle on it for a while.

The interior is very simple, but a nice touch.

In the photo you get a bit of a view of the stock pens too, which I recently expanded! Also, that stock car is one I built from scratch in high school, more on that here.

The set of 3 cars look very nice together on the layout, operate well, and I appreciate the very realistic sounding road name.