Make what will sell is how you have to go, but finding high hood locos for the FEC in O and HO is a challenge. I know MTH marketed a GP40 in FEC blue, but it was low hood and apparently unobtanium now. I painted and decaled my own in HO years ago, but hoping there might be someone with a lead or two on the blue units, any hood type. It seems I left FLA before they color scheme changed to red and yellow as I only remember blue engines, even though they had BL2's in red/yellow back in the '40's, and I also don't remember any low hood engines on the line. The Southern RR used to run it's engines, low or high hood, with the long end forward many times, just as visually restrictive as a high hood cab forward. Just looking for an FEC blue for nostalgic reasons to work into the rest of my Southeastern railroad world. Have to add in that, while many folks like the big name flagship passenger trains like ATSF, NYC, PRR, etc., the ACL seems to be one line that you can stick a lot of passenger cars in the consist from various roads and be fairly accurate. RF&P, NYC, PRR, FEC, ACL, IC, N&W could all be found in ACL passenger trains on a regular basis, with various engines in the consist too.
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