New York Central boxcar Questions

As a NYC fan, I wish that I could give you more definite info, but one thing that I can

say for certain is that the "script herald" was indeed real, and I believe that it was

a short-lived version of the herald that fell somewhere between the older, Roman-

style logo and the cigar-band logo. I believe that the blue boxcars with the script

did exist (hope so; I have the model). I think that it was used in the same time frame

as the so-called "Century" diesel freight scheme that had the black body and the set

of small stripes on the nose of some NYC FT's and F2's.

  Good question Scott

 I've got one of these cars made by K-line and would like to know more about it.

A great article on NYC colors is on the New York Central Historical Society website at http://nycshs.blogspot.com/p/nyc-colors.html and a list of NYC car photos with some data at http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=NYC&cid=2 . Check them out and the fun part is it tells you how to go to Lowes or Sherwin Williams and match colors to NYCRR.

As i was told there were 3 cars painted in the blue scheme which toured the system but they went with the jade green instead....i have one in half o...conrail john