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Late date stripe jobs I have found in
NYCLS;
NYC F7's #1653 and what appears to be
1670 (hard to tell) in 1965
NYC F7b #1606(?) in
1964
NYC H16-44 #7004 in
1964
NYC C-Liner #5016 in
1962
NYC GP7 #5686 in
1962
NYC GP9 #6072 in
1962
NYC CPA-24-5 #4503 in 1963 in deadline
with many minority builder cab units also in LS
NYC CFA-20-4 #5015 in
1961
NYC GP7 #5699 in
1964
NYC/P&E #5624 in 1965 (also P&E
logo on cab)
NYC E-7 #4002 in
1962
NYC E-8 #4095 in
1962
That's all post-1960 I found in NYCLS
Vol. #2. I hope that helps!
patrick
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 9:03
PM
Subject: PC: Lightning stripes in the PC
era?
Hi everyone,
In HO scale, Atlas has recently released
their RS3 and RS11 models in
New York Central, but only in "lightning
stripe" paint. While I wish
that they would also release a "cigar band"
version that would be
appropriate to use on an early Penn Central-era
layout, I got to
wondering: were there any NYC locomotives still sporting
their
"lightning stripes" in 1968 or 1969? Anyone ever recall seeing a
photo
of or in person any such engines? I'm trying to determine if I
could
get away with, prototypically, buying and running a "lightning
stripe"
Alco on my future 1969-era layout. Obviously, I wouldn't be able
to
assemble a fleet of striped power, nor would they be in pristine
paint
(I'd probably weather it up pretty good first).
I saw one
photo on George Elwood's NYC locomotive page
(http://www.dnaco.net/~gelwood/other/nyc-loco.html)
of a pair of F7s
in 1969 still wearing stripes, so it appears there were
two that made
the merger. I'm just trying to get a feel how many more there
were
out there, so I can justify either buying or not buying that
striped
RS11 that keeps calling my name at the hobby shop each month...
:-)
Thanks,
-Jer
--
Jerry W.
Jordak
It's not the trains that amaze me--
mailto:jer@smellycat.com
it's the fish heads.
http://prozac.cwru.edu/jer/
-- Mark Bailey
Acts 16:31
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