Re: PC: Re: Lightning stripes in the PC era? NOPE--nor for RS-11s

[S C Sillato <ssillato@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Jerry Jordak wrote:

> 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... 
> 

They are bogus in that they never ran on the NYC, BUT they were built and
painted so...you could model ALCo's Schnectady deliver yard and park a
couple there.<g>

BTW, bogus or not, they are selling well.  MB Klein sold out the entire
batch of theirs before anything else.

As far as the RS3's, I can't remember.  My fading memory tells me that
they were all cigar band by 1968.  I do remember the RS1's mentioned by
someone else.  Some made it to the PC in stripes, just don't remember
which ones.

BTW, MDC has done 2 numbers of RS3 in cigar band.... 

Steve Sillato
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.