If there is anybody out there modeling SCL in HO scale, where do you go to get locos? I assume, even if SCL was only '67 to 72, that there was still locos out there up to the 90’s, so that should relegate me to only a 5 yr period to model, right? Also, would it be correct to have SCL, L&N, Chessie, and CSX all on the same layout? Was there a point in time that that happened? Thanks again for all your help in getting me thru this research phase. My wife said tonight, “why don’t you just go out in the garage and start building the d@#n thing and quit spending so much time on the computer”…I’m beginning to agree with her!! Skip
I model the L&N but I am somewhat familar with SCL . Athearn and Atlas bot have SCL locos , and I believe Proto does as well . Even after 1972 you would have the Family lines with locos lettered for the SCL . Running L&N or Clinchfield locos or even A&WP locos would be ok . The L& N was owned by The SCL .Hope this helps .
Skip,
I am modeling the SCL/SBD in the Wilmington, NC area during the mid 80’s. covering the Chessie merger forming CSX. I have ACL, SCL, SBD painted units, and the early CSX paint scheme.
Check out a book, Locomotives of the Seaboard system, Railroad of the south. by Paul Carleton.
It covers the some of the steam engines of the ACL and SAL. Also covers some of the disels from the ACL, SAL, the clinchfeild railroad, the West Point Georgia railroad (which was owned by the ACL) and the L&N (which was owned by the ACL also.) In the back of the book there is a roster of loco’s from Jan. 1983 and from 1986. Depending on the years you are wanting to model, you could have SCL locos painted in the black with yellow strips on into the mid 80’s. SCL and ACL where big into GE U-boats, and early EMD units covering from GP-7/9’s, GP-30’s, 35’s, 40’s, SD35’s, 45’s and SD-40-2’s. I also found that the Durham and Southern was accuried by the SCL in the mid 70’s.
Most of the units lasting into the 90’s would have been painted in the seaboard system colors.
Hope this helps. John [:)]
It DOES help, John. Thanks for the reference book. I’ll order it this weekend. My layout (since it’s my first) will be freelance, with the emphasis on free! It’ll be a RR that never existed, so I have all kinds of artistic license, but I wanted to at least keep the era correct.[
Skip,
As I was looking through some other info there is another book that is probley more reasonable priced, it is called Seaboard Coast Line and Family, by William E. Griffin, Jr. I have seen this book sell for around $35.00 vers the other book by Paul Carleton that I have seen on ebay and at shows for $90.00. I lucked into to mine at a train show in New Bern, NC a couple of years ago. The site where I found the book by Griffin is: addall.com There are a few sellers on this site that have the book listed for sale.
Not sure how far you are from Wilmington, NC but there is a train show here next weekend. The other large show in New Bern(about 3 hrs north of wilmington) in the 1st weekend in March.
Again hope this helps. [:)]
John
They have a historical society in conjunction with the ACL http://www.aclsal.org/
They put out an ezine http://s-clmodeler.aclsal.org/index.htm I met it’s editor John Golden and saw some of his models at Cocoa Beach and attended a clinic he gave on boxcars. See his photo report on the meet at: http://www.pbase.com/golden1014/cocoa_beach_2009
Cal
Seaboard Coast Line did not cease to exist in 1972. SCL RR was owned by a parent corporation named Seaboard Coast Line Industries. Over time the parent corporation acquired the SCL, the L&N, Georgia, Clinchfield, Atlanta& West Point and Western of Alabama. These roads, under the ownership of he one parent, were known as The Family Lines System. The railroads all had the same parent, but they retained their own identities. SOME SCL locos were repainted into the Family Lines scheme but most were still in the SCL paint when they went to CSX.
At the same time Family Lines was being formed, the B&O, C&O, and Western Maryland came under the control of a single parent. When the two parents merged, they formed CSX Corporation, which merged all the independant railroads into two sytems…Chessie System and Seaboard System. Finally the 2 sytems were merged into CSX Transportation. CSX went to great lengths to repaint locos but nobody else did.
Were I modeling Seaboard Coast Line railroad–and I’m not, mind you–I would go to Athearn, Atlas, or the ilk for locomotives, to Floquil, Scalecoat, or the ilk for paints, Microscale for decals, and Badger, Paasche, or the ilk for a good airbrush. With a locomotive, paints, decals, and an airbrush you can model any railroad you want.