Re: PC: interesting errata

["Chris Osterhus" <su_carbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Chris Osterhus wrote:
>
> > Along with the RF16, I managed to score an old Tyco Alco 4-motor. I'd 
>like
> > to paint it in PC colors as well. Trouble is, I can't figure out if it's 
>a
> > C430, or 425 because my photos are somewhat grainy. Did these units have 
>any
> > odd details?
>
>It's a C430...notice the box behind the cab. The big problem with that
>model (besides the fact that it's a Tyco!) is the trucks....the NYC/PC
>C430's had the hi-adhesion trucks, not to pseudo-AAR Type B trucks that
>the Tyco model has (which are too wide if I remember right). The only
>two C430's built with the AAR Type B trucks were the Reading's pair.

I'll have to replace those :(

>I actually have one of those Tyco C430's packed in a box somewhere.
>Mine was the "Silver Streak"....I ran it on my passenger train with
>my Life-Like Amtrak cars....when I was 10.... :-)

Mine was actually "Silver Streak," but the chrome was very, very flat, so I 
stripped it.

>Don't know of any MGA decals offhand. Maybe if Jim Kosty gets
>ambitious one day...

If there aren't any decals, are there any NYC-style alphabet decals floating 
around?

>That does give me a great idea though....how I can justify a Shark on
>my PC-era layout! Wonder if the MGA Sharks might have ever gotten
>lost and wandered around north of Pittsburgh on the PC...? >-)

Suppose one got mixed in with the Detroit Edison coal trains... :)
Seriously, I know that the MGA used their Baldwins for quite awhile, but I 
can't remember ever seeing them in service! I was very young at the time!

--Chris
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