I dont know about everyone else but i kind of like my IC ,CR,and jade green PC Con Cor PA1s they are by no means prototypical but they are kind of cool,oh and did forget to mention my AMTRAK J3A Hudson? LOL
I dont know about everyone else but i kind of like my IC ,CR,and jade green PC Con Cor PA1s they are by no means prototypical but they are kind of cool,oh and did forget to mention my AMTRAK J3A Hudson? LOL lest we forget these wer all in the catalog back in the dark days of N .
Athearn is great for painting stuff that no one actually ran. Latest on that list is the paint jobs on the F59PHI. I guess to promote their Bombardier cars they painted them in a whole bunch of railroads that actually owned MPX locomotives. Add to that a bunch of fantasy schemes like Pennsylvania and Santa Fe. Older ones are the Model Power F40 in Santa Fe Warbonnet. But it did match the ConCor Gallery Bi-Levels. At least the missile trailer was removable, leaving you a heavy duty lowboy.
My vote would be for the Mehano Technica FA thing that everybody and their brother seems to have imported over time.
Who, this guy? http://www.railpixs.com/conrail/Conrail4800_WilmingtonDel_Sept79.jpg The only GG-1 to get the can-opener scheme was 4800, Old Rivets. It was painted up as Conrail's bicentennial locomotive, and after the festivities were over, it got the Conrail Blue treatment. The model actually is inaccurate, but not because of the paint. Old Rivets had slightly different curves than the production GG-1's that followed (not to mention a riveted body). My vote for most inaccurate would be ConCor's current line of commuter coaches in PRR Fleet of Modernism. Only the premier cars of the Blue Ribbon Fleet wore FOM; it never got near a commuter car. It might hurt a little less if the coaches were even remotely accurate for the PRR, but alas...
I don't know about the most un-prototypical car, but this topic get my vote for oldest resurrected thread. 2001? :tb-confused:
We're putting a lot of locomotives into what's supposed to be a car thread. Paint alone can't win this. I like the searchlight car. For a recent nomination, the Micro-Trains giraffe gondola gets my vote!
I was just going to nominate this one. Every time I see that car, I think 'Lionel' of my youth. No this isn't the oldest re-born topic. We've had them from 2000, brought out and dusted off again. Which is just fine. Boxcab E50
Well ok the Tomix N scale version of Thomas can't change facial expressions, but their model of Percy can (comes with snap on 3 faces)
yeah I know it's an old post but Conrail really did repaint some GG1's in blue and white and even one in a gaudy bicentennial scheme. The blue and white can be seen here http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2242702 Most unprototypical car? Hmm, for me it is the ballast car in dark blue with a poorly printed McGinnis logo, metal pizza cutter wheels and rapido couplers B&M car. I think it is a Con-Cor.
Actually I thought this was a no brainer but no one has mentioned it yet. My vote for the all time least prototypical car goes to..........................(drum roll)..................................................... The Micro Trains giraffe gondola car. Photo taken from Brooklyn Locomotive Works website. Hopefully no legal infractions incurred in doing so.
Well, as for passenger cars, the old Arnold Rapido stream lined, light weight cars have no full scale prototype. They just down sized the old Blue Box HO Athern cars and compressed them even more. (The RPO did not get shortened.) Besides being too short they have a Budd style roof but the fluting above the window belt is nothing like Budd ever did. The Con Cor Budd RPO on the other hand was stretched way out of proportion.
For me there are a number of cars that I've used but aren't at all correct for Santa Fe. A sampling: Model Powers heavy weight shorties, passenger cars, now operate in my work trains as bunk, kitchen and supervisor's car. I have a number of Canadian Grain Cars that aren't authentic but look good plying my rails. Seems that with UP and SP nobody get's the light arrangements correct or the horn placement. AND, Bachmann's 4-8-0's are seldom correct and that includes the most recent run...still oversized and with the wrong tender. Does that help? If it ain't new in the box...oh...sorry...that's another thread...LOL Careful now I'm going to diss off an administrative type.rolleyes:
