The N Scale layout I’m building is a line from Frankenmuth, Michigan to Holland, Michigan. The lines I’m running are CSX, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Amtrak and Norfolk Southern. I prefer to use Kato and Atlas stock but I have some Bachmann.
I have a hard time finding Norfolk Southern cabooses. I have one Con-Cor but it hasn’t worked right from day one. Does anyone have a line on NS cabooses?
fritzvb
Fritz,
You may have some trouble finding NS cabooses due to the fact that werernt too many in the real world too. Always consider making your own. Just find some NS decals from Micro Scale and put them on a caboose after giving it a once over with some paint. Black would look good, but red or yellow would be more of a realsti color. The liked them bright to help with visibility… Good luck.
The two I’ve seen here in SE Pa are actually conrail baywindow cabins that are weathered and have heavy graffitti.
NS is a post Staggers Act railroad.
Happy Railroading,
Mark
Why not do like the real NS and use cabooses letter NW? Or you can use the Atlas NW caboose paint over the NW and replace that with a simple NS logo.
http://home.frognet.net/~mcfadden/wd8rif/img/ns555057cab.jpg
Brakie
I’m still kinda green at all this. Are you saying Norfolk Southern ran Norfolk Western cabooses with theirl NS locos?
fritzvb
The present NS was a merger of the Southern Railway and the Norfolk & Western railroad. Later NS bought about 1/2 of Conrail and merged that into the present NS system. Since the use of cabooses was on the way out when NS was created, most cabooses were still lettered NW or SOU, and very few ever got repainted to a NS paint scheme. The caboose still used are for special operations that require a caboose or ‘pushing platform’.
Jim
I’m not really disagreeing, but I remember the first merger, and the caboose had already dissappeared from the N&W years before the merger to my recollection. So I checked and NS merged in December of 1990. The Staggers Act was passed in 1980. So I bet that’s a correct memory. Fred