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From what I am seeing in pics, some
units may have been placed in deadlines to finish out their trust (especially
minority builders) or due to a "major malfunction" while still in lightening
stripes. Most of those were scrapped or traded in on NYC's late 50's/early 60's
fleet modernization efforts, at least as I understand it. Perhaps you could
create a deadline of ratty pre-PC NYC/PRR units...sounds cool to
me!
patrick
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 9:57
PM
Subject: Re: PC: Re: Lightning stripes in
the PC era? NOPE--nor for RS-11s
Patrick Harris wrote:
> In NYC Lightning Stripes,
Vol. 2, page 50, there is a photo of a covey of RS-11's in LS, BUT the
>
caption says: "Six RS-11's were assembled by ALCO in 1960 on the basis of a
verbal commitment from
> an NYC official, but they were never accepted
by the NYC and remained in storage at Selkirk
> roundhouse through 1960.
Eventually they were purchased by the D&H and repainted by ALCO in
their
> new gray and blue color scheme early in 1961. These RS-11's
(#8009-8014) were the ONLY ONES
> (added emphasis) delivered in
lightning stripes as the first group (#8000-8009) were painted
black......"
Interesting.... According to that, the Atlas RS-11 models
in lightning
stripes then are bogus, although the numbers are correct (8011
and
8014). Apparently whoever at Atlas decided on the paint scheme
either
looked at the wrong photos, or didn't read the entire caption...
Thanks for the info!
-JWJ
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