Does anyone have info (or know where to look) on color schemes for
an Atlantic Coast Line caboose to accompany my pair of GP-9's?
Or, better yet, maybe you've seen one already made . . . what
manufacturer, when, etc.
Does anyone have info (or know where to look) on color schemes for
an Atlantic Coast Line caboose to accompany my pair of GP-9's?
Or, better yet, maybe you've seen one already made . . . what
manufacturer, when, etc.
> Does anyone have info (or know where to look) on color schemes for
> an Atlantic Coast Line caboose to accompany my pair of GP-9's?
Unless an ACL caboose has been done in brass, you are unlikely to find
anything commercially available that comes very close to anything
pictured.
Cabooses are a big challenge in N. We could use a vendor making small
run kits, possibly mixing resin bodies (ala Fine N Scale) with etched
brass (ala Gold Medal Models) ends and cupolas.
But is there a big enough market? How many folks would spend $25-35 for
a moderately difficult kit of an ACL caboose? ACL enthusiasts would, and
a handful of others with eclectic tastes would, but I'm afraid too many
folks are only be interested in painted & lettered models.
Alan Winston
>> Does anyone have info (or know where to look) on color schemes for
>> an Atlantic Coast Line caboose to accompany my pair of GP-9's?
>_Cabins, Crummies, & Hacks_, Vol 2, "The South" (1991, H&M Productions),
>has color ACL caboose pictures beginning on page 61. Two schemes are
>pictured: one is (caboose?) red with white lettering, the other is
>orange with black lettering.
>Cabooses are a big challenge in N. We could use a vendor making small
>run kits, possibly mixing resin bodies (ala Fine N Scale) with etched
>brass (ala Gold Medal Models) ends and cupolas.
>But is there a big enough market? How many folks would spend $25-35 for
>a moderately difficult kit of an ACL caboose? ACL enthusiasts would, and
>a handful of others with eclectic tastes would, but I'm afraid too many
>folks are only be interested in painted & lettered models.
>Alan Winston
If you join the ACL/SAL historical society, you may contact someone who
has some nice photos and/or slides that will give you all the info you
need. I can also refer you to some earlier issues of "Diesel Era" in
which some of the Seaboard System's cabeese were pictured--might've been
RF&P, but one class of RF&P cabeese is nearly identical to ACL's.
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