More MOD than MOC: 7938.5 plus club car and freight wagon

[Snapshot]

I finally finished my 7938.5 hybrid and, as threatened, made a club car for it. No interior detail in the club car yet and it's as ugly as I expected so I may not keep it. Suggestions on improving it welcome.

I was going to build a second one but decided on a new version of an old favourite and made a freight wagon instead which I think works quite well. Note that the large and small windows are the opposite way round compared with the club car as I couldn't decide which I preferred. Again, opinions welcome.

The train shown runs well on my test track which is a tight figure-of-eight with a deliberately nasty wiggle over the crossing.

Jonathan

I didn't see why the loco should have a passenger-access door so changed it to engineering access instead.

[cimddwc]

The freight wagon looks great – this two-level-baseplate combination works fine with this train design. The club car, though, yeah, looks a bit odd. Maybe, hmm, don't use the big roof parts and build some lower roof, and add windows to the front and back of the raised part? Remove that dark gray line, and use the same trans-black panels instead of the train windows in the bottom part? Just some ideas...

As for the small windows: I'd use a 2-wide trans-black panel there, thus basically widening the regular windows to 6 studs.

[pinioncorp]

The club car looks bad for one reason and one reason only: the roofline is inconsistent. The Metroliner Club Car works well because the roof doesn't change in height (except for one plate - but even then the slope on the side is the same height) - maybe try using these as a way to open the top up as space for minifigs, while using smaller windows along the bottom.

The other thing I don't like is that you've separated the loco from the carriages, instead of using the shared bogies that looked so good before. Realistically the train would never be separated from its consist, so leaving them all connected makes sense. Great work on the rest though, you've got turned something that was so plain into something visually appealing.