Decals on B&LE, NYC and AC&Y

NICE! Looks like I wasn't the only one with inaugural scheme fever on the Pacemaker cabs. Curious Malcolm, do you use the typical Microscale decal setting system with a final clear coat? Or do you use those special "reverse" decals like Golden Gate Depot where they are virtually pad printed once you lift the film off?

Malcolm,

Those cabooses are all beautiful and I like the air horn on the roof of the Bessemer cab., the "Buy War Bonds" on the sides of the A.C.&Y. cab. and those NYC Pacemaker cabs. make your room look like a NYC freight yard.

Plenty of custom building, etc., accomplished, of this group.

We know there's more. 

Be Well,

Ralph

Nick,

Is one of those Pacemaker beauties yours?

She's gon'na be and look beautiful complementing your Pacemaker fleet.

Enjoy and Good Luck,

Ralph

sweet!

Getting closer!

Dave

Yes indeed. Very much looking forward to its completion. Malcolm's work is so good I keep forgetting these are scratch-built, they really do look like a mass-produced exact scale product! 

You should consider posting this in the Hi-Rail forum as well Malcolm. It qualifies since my cab is being built as 3-Rail Hi-Rail. You'd get a lot more exposure, unfortunately it seems the 2-rail forum just doesn't get as many views.

Nick,

The actual/prototype Pacemaker caboose is about 41ft. long, as NYC's D.S.I. shops used old 36ft. box cars, to fashion these.

When, your's arrives, compare it to your other, regular sized, cabooses and you will see how the Pacemaker dwarfs the others.

ENJOY!!!!
Take care,

Ralph

Nick,

Your DVD of the Mohawk locomotive, hauling the block of Pacemaker freight cars and caboose, please, what is the title of it?

I would like to get a copy, if it's still available.

Thank you,

Ralph

The DVD with those scenes was called "Hudsons Along the Hudson" by Sunday River Productions. You can buy it directly from them on its own or in a bundle with two other great NYC DVD's. And if you belong to the NYCSHS you get an even better discount through their Collinwood Shop.

http://www.sundayriverproducti.../category.aspx?id=40

I haven't seen them since you painted them.  They are exceptionally impressive!  Thank you for sharing your progress!

Thank you Nick, I will buy it.

Ralph

I just discovered a caboose for Malcolm (who probably doesn't need any ideas) in an

unlikely source, it is O scale, and in a construction article in Model Railroader (can

you believe that..it isn't N gauge!).  It is a Copper Range caboose and appears to be

a plain jane center cupola caboose, except it has a side door.  The road and that

side door in a center cupola caboose makes it interesting to me. Also, the construction

techniques look similar to Malcolm's, styrene.  If the people on here who were offering

U.P. (Upper Peninsula Michigan) rolling stock offered THAT, I would jump on it.

colorado hirailer,

Your discovery sounds great, aside from a center cupola, Malcolm built a beautiful "Illinois Central" red caboose, with a side door in the center of the body and an off center cupola.

A color photo. of it is on Malcolm's 'Facebook' page.

Ralph

I am familiar with the IC caboose...brass HO models of it, like most of the stuff I lust

after, have been around for years.  The IC, the FEC/GW/assorted other roads as second owners, Colorado Midland, etc.cabooses, have all been long on my wish list.  While I have a fleet of kitbashed and scratchbuilt cabooses, constructing an accurate model of a specific prototype, outside the liberty of artistic license, is more daunting.

The Copper Range caboose is interesting to me because it would appear at a glance as just a Northeastern style center cupola caboose, except for the door, and it was another side door I was unaware of, leaving me wondering how many others are out

there in buried photos.  (many HAVE been offered in HO brass)

colorado hirailer,

Your caboose does sound interesting to me, as I enjoy special built cabooses, railcars and especially M.O.W. equipment.

Brother Love has beautiful cabooses and, though, I know he's working on a box car, he must have other railcars he has created.

Ralph