Scott
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Post by Scott on Feb 14, 2024 15:30:05 GMT -5
I like the telescope metaphor. Let’s milk the metaphor. With the bay window and the wide vision, effectively, AZL has made two monocles for Norfolk and Western. With the next run of Alco RSs, Norfolk and Western Alco RSs would make for a telescope. Taking it to the next level (and I hate that modern day cliché), a Norfolk and Western Alco RS paired alongside a Western Maryland Alco RS with a Western Maryland caboose would be binoculars. (There were wide visions on the Western Maryland.)
To my knowledge, N&W Alco RSs and WM Alco RSs were both black. All that’s needed is a change in the lettering and lettering color. (Could go a step further, and feature the Western Maryland circus paint scheme which is, as you may know, reminiscent of the New Haven McGinnis paint scheme. I’ve seen fans at train show swaps reach for a Western Maryland circus locomotive thinking it’s a New Haven McGinnis locomotive and vice versa.)
Norfolk and Western Railroad had a line that crossed over the two-track Chicago line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia at Shenandoah Junction; hence the town name. That N&W line went straight up to Hagerstown which was the centralization of the Western Maryland Railroad as well as a hub for N&W. Seeing N&W Alco RSs and WM Alco RSs in the same yard there was common there, much like seeing tracks shared by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, and so forth.
Telescope versus binoculars.
Parallelisms.
If not, ... I’ll settle for a Pullman Green combine car.
Scott
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Scott
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Post by Scott on Mar 27, 2024 12:24:47 GMT -5
The next run of Bay Window Caboose will include the following railroads: ATSF, GN, Caltrain, E&L, Contrail, B&O (non-Chessie), D&H, SP, BN, UP, NYC, CSX, Frisco and C&NW First release planned March-April next year AZL B&O non-Chessie bay window cabooses—It is my hope that they will be offered in the yellow graphics on blue body paint scheme. (O please. O please. O please. Tell me tis so. Please.) Certainly, artwork releases provide confirmation. Perhaps a little birdie whisper could confirm prior to provided artwork. Mid-’60s blue body I assume is targeted for AZL B&O non-Chessie bay window cabooses. B&O blue body findings • white graphics, B&O lettering above bay window, yellow ends • white graphics, No B&O lettering above bay window, yellow ends • yellow graphics, enlarged simplified B&O herald, no yellow ends A little research showed per blue paint schemes there were three-runs in seven-years. The yellow graphics scheme came in 1970. See attached. Always there’s something to this model railroad proposition. Do tell—I Mean: Yours, Scott
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Post by sjl on Apr 8, 2024 9:22:36 GMT -5
Was there any art posted yet on the rerun of theses?
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Post by Commodore on Apr 8, 2024 13:40:49 GMT -5
I like the telescope metaphor. Let’s milk the metaphor. With the bay window and the wide vision, effectively, AZL has made two monocles for Norfolk and Western. With the next run of Alco RSs, Norfolk and Western Alco RSs would make for a telescope. Taking it to the next level (and I hate that modern day cliché), a Norfolk and Western Alco RS paired alongside a Western Maryland Alco RS with a Western Maryland caboose would be binoculars. (There were wide visions on the Western Maryland.) To my knowledge, N&W Alco RSs and WM Alco RSs were both black. All that’s needed is a change in the lettering and lettering color. (Could go a step further, and feature the Western Maryland circus paint scheme which is, as you may know, reminiscent of the New Haven McGinnis paint scheme. I’ve seen fans at train show swaps reach for a Western Maryland circus locomotive thinking it’s a New Haven McGinnis locomotive and vice versa.) Norfolk and Western Railroad had a line that crossed over the two-track Chicago line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia at Shenandoah Junction; hence the town name. That N&W line went straight up to Hagerstown which was the centralization of the Western Maryland Railroad as well as a hub for N&W. Seeing N&W Alco RSs and WM Alco RSs in the same yard there was common there, much like seeing tracks shared by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, and so forth. Telescope versus binoculars. Parallelisms. If not, ... I’ll settle for a Pullman Green combine car. Scott I'm still waiting on a N&W Alco RS-3
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Post by Commodore on Apr 8, 2024 14:30:16 GMT -5
I'll really love to have an N&W SD-45.
The NS SD-45 #1795 sold out because it is a N&W number. Easy repaint!
Anybody know of one for sale?
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Post by Kez on Apr 8, 2024 15:19:54 GMT -5
I have all three numbers of the NS SD45. What is #1795 worth to you?
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Post by bapakbob on Apr 8, 2024 16:12:00 GMT -5
new cabeese in the year 2024, what a concept! Virginia was the last state to take cabeese off the mainlines, in 1988: "A 1982 Presidential Emergency Board convened under the Railway Labor Act directed United States railroads to begin eliminating caboose cars where possible to do so. A legal exception was the state of Virginia, which had a 1911 law mandating cabooses on the ends of trains, until the law's final repeal in 1988" (Wiki) Especially since the SD70 and related brethren from other manufacturers didn't come into being until 1992. "The EMD SD70 Production commenced in late 1992" (Wiki) So if I ran mainline freight drags on my hobby layout with modern locomotives; I'd be running outlaw to hitch a crummy to the end. So what kind of outlaw caboose would I want? Don't want no identifying bold lettering of the Road Name; don't need the Railroad Prototyically-Correct Police after me. Stealth Black would be nice. Maybe a back porch so's I could rent it out to railroad hobbyists who would pay good money to ride along. And I would want it to conform to modern EOTD standards for safety's sake, so an EOTD on both ends. Snap-in interchangeable couplers: knuckle, fish hook and Rapido options would be nice. And how much would I want to pay for a crummy for my modrin railroad? Well, it would have to have directional-only lighted EOTD's front and rear with track-pickup of power. And I wouldn't want to pay more than $20 for some crummy. So maybe this one, for $18. Well, $17.97 from Tenshodo is what they were selling for on Ebay today. Somethin 'bout those red lights of the train disappearing into the evening dusk... Attachments:
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Post by Commodore on Apr 8, 2024 17:46:19 GMT -5
I have all three numbers of the NS SD45. What is #1795 worth to you? Donno, But you know that I like you, a lot! :0
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Post by Kez on Apr 8, 2024 19:05:00 GMT -5
I have all three numbers of the NS SD45. What is #1795 worth to you? Donno, But you know that I like you, a lot! :0 Flattery is not my preferred currency. Do you have any larger bills?
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Post by Commodore on Apr 8, 2024 20:21:57 GMT -5
Donno, But you know that I like you, a lot! :0 Flattery is not my preferred currency. Do you have any larger bills? Bribery comes next... But that waits to payday!
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Post by tjdreams on Apr 8, 2024 22:28:19 GMT -5
new cabeese in the year 2024, what a concept! So if I ran mainline freight drags on my hobby layout with modern locomotives; I'd be running outlaw to hitch a crummy to the end. So what kind of outlaw caboose would I want? You should buy more loco's and more Rolling stock from all era's so you can pull the correct cars behind the correct era loco's with out breaking the law.
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