Just arrived from Ro, the first SCL caboose in O by MTH.
I also did up an MTH boxcar using Microscale rare CHAMP SCL decals.
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Very nice work!
I ordered one of these cabooses from my local hobby shop but I haven't heard anything from him yet. It will look good behind my 2 MTH Seaboard Coast Line SD45s I preordered even though MTH has the road # and road name reversed.
This will look even better:
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Nice!
Hope the SD's have "Pulling for You" if not I have microscale decals available from my F3 project I don't need.
Waiting on KARTRAK ACI decals to add to that caboose. I ran out doing the SCL passenger cars last week.
Looks like Bill S. at MTH is overlooking adding the finer graphics lately....
The latest MTH SCL caboose is close, but no cigar.
MTH is doing cab #s 2000, 2004 and 2010. Those were early SD45s delivered in '66 so I don't think they had "Pulling For You" on the cabs. I think that slogan appeared a couple years later but it definitely adds to the look even if it is kind of corny.
I agree, some guy probably tying to justify his job came up with that later slogan, LOL!
Enjoy our new purchases.
Can you create a fading paint look on a factory painted caboose or box car?
Andrew
Yes, see the SCL box car above. It is a good example.
Darker reddish brown is the original color and lighter brown SCL faded color was painted on prior to adding the decals.
Cabooses were generally kept in good condition on the RR's.
Originally Posted by catnap:
MTH is doing cab #s 2000, 2004 and 2010. Those were early SD45s delivered in '66 so I don't think they had "Pulling For You" on the cabs. I think that slogan appeared a couple years later but it definitely adds to the look even if it is kind of corny.
No slogans on any of them and 2010 delivered as a SCL unit, never was an ACL SD45
SCL SD45 #2000 was built as ACL 1024 in Dec 1966
SCL SD45 #2004 was built as ACL 1028 in December 1966. It was later re# SBD #8904, then CSX 8904. Later, it went to VMV and was rebuilt as VMV SD40-2 #8904, then to KCS 621
SCL SD45 #2010 was built in September 1968. It was later re# SBD #8910, then CSX 8910, before leaving roster and becoming MRL 378, then IMRL 378
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SIRT as always your work is fantastic.
I got one of the cabooses, even though I don't have any SCL locos to pull it. I'm on the fence about the SD45, since I prefer 4-axle units, especially in O scale, because they tend to look better on the sharp curves. I'd like to see an SCL GP35, since that was the last prototype unit I remember seeing in SCL paint back in the late 1980's, sitting in the Miami yard. Still, there's something special about the "Black Cadillacs"...
Bill in FtL
These have been on the forum before...but, they remain some of my favorites...custom paint jobs by Jeff Sohn...way back when...
As simple and plain as it may be to some...Seaboard Coast Line remains a favorite line...since I grew up in ACL and, then, SCL territory in North Carolina.
These were numbered as per the engines in the photo in the William E. Griffin, Jr book on SCL...page 52...as seen on 25 May 1974.
Jeff also did a pair of SD35s that I have preserved in photographs...that I "toured" when they were in the deadline outside the yard in Hamlet, NC probably in 1977.
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Thanks for the other photos...let's hope MTH screws up and does, indeed, put "Pulling for You" on those SD45s...after all...they are 3-rail trains...I'll take a mistake for the sake of jazzing these models up.
I am considering ditching everything I have, here, in UP territory and just running anything ACL, SAL, and SCL that I may be able to find. The MTH ACL GP35s are pretty good in my book.
