I've been trying out some paint schemes.  None of these leave me completely happy with them, but I'd welcome any feedback.  I'd like to include a bit of red somehow, but it's looking a bit too bright with the dark green whenever I try it.

In the era I'm hoping to model, these coaches would be quite old and relegated to secondary duties on less glamorous routes, as streamlined carriages become the norm on the more prestigious trains.

Having moved house, I now find myself with no train layout.  In the apartment I'm renting, there's not a lot of room for a layout, plus I need to keep the place fairly tidy, so for now I'm in the process of working out the details of a new freelance layout I've created.  I'm calling it the Skagway, Juneau and Pacific, operating as a regional railroad in the Alaskan panhandle.  Here's the original mainline, circa 1900 (it was expanded rapidly beyond this in the 1st half of the 20th century):