Lionel 607 painted

This weekend, I finished painting the Lionel 607 passenger car. I choose a middle red colour and not the more typical burgundy red colour. So, this passenger car will look more like the MTH remake than the original, but I just like this colour more. Last week, I already painted everything, but there was this one hair of half an inch that had landed on the wet black glossy paint of the roof.
Therefore, I had to redo the whole roof, but now I shines without this one curly hair.

I decided to assemble the window-pane in the car body and to put the roof on, just to see how the final result will look. There is still a couple of things to do. The axles still have some rust and need to be treated again. The wheels need to be polished better, to get rid off the last bits of black sooth.
Additionally, the lamp holder is severely rusted and it will be difficult to get it in a better state, because of all the grooves. Perhaps I will replace it with a new part. Well the couplers were also gone, so it will get some new shining couplers as well. The brass tank lids have some rust grooves and although it is polished and it shines, these grooves remain visible. A testomony of age, I would reacon.

Some blokes asked for it, so here is an additional picture of the All Nation Line C&LE box trailer kit in finished condition, well all but the couplers.

Lionel 607

It is more than two and a half years ago, since I choose to test my new sand blaster on a old rusty Lionel 607 passenger car, which was scooped up from Ebay some 3 years ago. Since then I derusted, sanded and disassembled the passenger car slowly, working occasionally on it. But now that I got my new work shed sorted, it was the first project to finish, from the long list of restorations that still wait for my attention.
After all the paint was removed from the body, it became apparent that this passenger car must have been composed from two non identical halves. One tin-plate side panel with rivets and one smooth. Also at the corners of the car, smoothened solder residues were visible. So, this is a car with some history that already received a major renovation in the past and is now up for its second rejuvenation. On the head ends of the car the guiding rails for the couplers were broken off. So, I fixed this with 1 mm brass wire and some very thin brass plate cuttings. I soldered the lot in position, sanded it and used some solder and plaster to smoothen the edges and sanded the lot again.
The roof had 3 dents, which were crudely filled with solder and then smoothened with filler, sanded, smoothened with filler and sanded again.
Today was a hot day and I could spray paint primer paint on it. And I must say that I am quiet happy with the result; a smooth roof and nice car body.
Working with this passenger car, you start to wonder what this car must have experienced since the twenties of the last century. Nevertheless, its future looks bright again; it will return in toy train service soon.