Carletta Trains
New Jersey Transit Comet Passenger Cars
For this project I purchased Comet II passenger car shells from Island Model Works. My intention was to use these cars and paint them in a more updated livery which was on the Comet IIM cars. Below are a couple of shots of how the looked when they arrived. As you can see there's a lot of flash and left over molding that had to be cut out from the windows and along the bottom of the cars. It took a lot of patience, but it wasn't too hard to do.


The NJ Transit cars have inside bearing wheels which means the outside of the wheels aren't attached to anything. I purchased several sets of Kato wheels that are used on their Amfleet cars. These trucks have a coupler mounted on them which would hit the steps molded onto the Comet II chasis so I had to cut off the coupler. While I was at it I trimmed the electrical leads since I have no plans on lighting my cars and they would only present a challenge later

