I'll take a couple of those SP cabooses above and bring on the Baldwins! With SP, you even get a choice of paint schemes...black widow, tiger stripes or pumpkin!
I would get all three SP 'flavors' you have shown!! SP and T&NO had 59 of them... Sent from my SM-J737T using Tapatalk
I remember there being an article in...was it the old Rail Classics Magazine...about the original NS. I think they were replaced by new GP38s?
Bloody nose never existed in my world so it doesn't count. It was just the primer coat waiting until they painted back widow or tiger stripes on them.
I think you are right on both counts John. BTW, Rail Classics was a great little magazine. Hate that it has been so long gone.
What's also cool is that NS 1616, their Baldwin AS-416 survives at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. It's inoperative, but I think that the prime mover, internals and traction motors are all intact. The AS-416 had A-1-A trucks, so as to tread lightly on light rail. A matching NS caboose can be seen behind.
I remember Rail Classics, printed on comic-book-grade pulp paper, right? I have a few issues somewhere and it was a good magazine. They covered things the larger fan magazines somehow missed.
In 'my' railroad fantasy world... Bloody nose didn't happen until the mid 1980's... which I don't actually model in SP. DRGW and Santa Fe, Utah Railway...those I recognize in rhe 1980's. Sent from my SM-J737T using Tapatalk
I would like to see Atlas make some more N scale black and yellow Frisco locomotives. So far they have only released four and Frisco had them in the hundreds. Joe
They also had Railroad Modeler, too. Same paper and everything. I think I might still have a few copies myself!
Other than the Article on The ORIGINAL NS - NORFOLK SOUTHERN in RAIL CLASSICS, what does this former publication have to do with this topic? Just curious. Tom
We're just reminiscing I suppose and after ten pages of "Dear Atlas" posts, a brief excursion will hopefully not result in too much topic damage.
Any of the 20th centruy limited Hudson's. Or maybe a C&O L1 streamlined Hudson. Or how about a 2-6-6-6 Allegheny? The Cincinattia from B&O. Another new old release (EG Mikado, Big Boy Etc.) is doing nothing for broadening what is available in Nscale.
Atlas locomotive specialty are hood diesels... so they should do the ALCo RSD15. Sent from my SM-J737T using Tapatalk
Here is my wish-list. Amtrak Acela trainset. (correct length please, no 4 car set with an extra cost add on)(or offer a full trainset and the smaller set with add-on together) Bombardier Bi-level coaches (Sounder, New Mexico Rail Runner, Via, Go, Cal-Trans etc) MP36DC's to pull the coaches in the matching scheme (Sounder and NMRR being my top choices)
