NH 5229
 
Heavyweight diner, New Haven (NH 5229).  This is a standard Rivarossi diner with slight modifications.  I started with a Pullman green unlettered model and removed the horizontal beams from the dining room windows to more closely approximate the prototype.  New brass stirrups from Gold Metal were added in various places and painted to match the body.  Gold Metal Venetian blinds were cut to various lengths, painted white and added to the dining room windows.  I shaved the simulated end diaphragms and added American Limited heavyweight diaphragms.  I attached a strip of Rosco light frost diffusion film to the inside of the kitchen windows to obscure the view.