The Bring’n’Brag category for August was “Passenger Cars.” There were three entries submitted for voting.

1st Place went to Bill DeFoe, who entered a private car from his own railroad that he kitbashed. He described his efforts as follows: The car started as a simple heavyweight observation car; the unit has working marker lights made from the smallest LED lights he could find; the battery power is mounted inside the roof, and it uses a micro-switch mounted in the clerestory roof; Dennis Vaccaro provided a collection of caboose interior parts modified to fit; the interior carpeting is felt; and he finished the model with various acrylic paints.

2nd Place went to Patrick Altdorfer, who brought three Liliput models of German passenger cars in historical liveries - one sleeping car from “Mitropa” (the “Central European Sleeping and Dining Car Company” that operated passenger service in Europe for the German state railways from the 1920s through 1994), and a sleeping car and dining car of the “DSG” (the west German sister company of Mitropa) - pulled by DRG 03.1001, a 1930s era streamlined steam locomotive (Pacific type) from Fleischmann.

3rd Place went to Rick Montgomery, who brought an 85’ Hi-Level Budd passenger car from Walthers Proto, in which he installed a Walthers light kit, Preiser seated figures, and did some light weathering of the wheels and trucks.

This page is copied from the Keystone Flyer, Bring‘n’Brag article by Tracy Boyd/Richard Terek.