Not this price or place, just what is depicted. I know that BLI is thinking about a much more costly caboose due out sometime in the next few months that they suggest is suitable, but…
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATL1149
I don’t see why not. They were produced from 1937 to 1949 and many stayed in service until the mid to late 80’s.
And we all know how fast BLI can mocve in getting things out, That looks fine. Even if it’s a fill-in, you can never have too many cabooses. And you could then shove this one up front for a long drag and put the BLi at the back if you want it.
Interesting that the Overview talks about the C&O and a few others but no mention of the N&W
Now it will just be a matter of which one is released first.
Did N&W have that emblem before the Y6b’s were retired?
The Caboose is correct, the logo is not.
That logo pretty much was used after NKP/Wabash merger in the sixties and seventies.
Thanks, all who have replied. Darn, dinwitty, I think they have at least one other logo, but I don’t recollect that the one you show is offered. In fact, now I have to go back and see about the BLI caboose…I don’t recollect the logo being on that one either. I’ll take a look around and see what I can find.
I gotta have a suitable N&W caboose! I goottt tuuuhh!
-Crandell
That particular number fits a caboose built for the VGN in 1947, “inherited” by the N&W in 1959.
The last Y6b was ‘retired’ a few months later.
So, yes, that caboose might have been found behind a Y6b (with a whole lot of hopper cars between,) but not with that herald and for a very narrow window of time.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Thanks, Chuck. So what do I want, a C-1, C-3, …this one is supposed to be a C&O safety style according to the write-ups.
Look at it this way - I least you’re not stuck with yet another Walthers release of a completely wrong International NKP bay window caboose again. [sigh]
I just Googled up some images, and it looks darn close to me, Crandell.
http://arrts-arrchives.com/photo.html
You sound like most kids in December. [(-D]
Nice find, Nelson! I guess I’m good to go. [:P]
Thanks.
-Crandell
Looks like I could just blow away the logo. But I found a bunch of decals on ebay, so I was planning on a repaint anyways. This is what holds me off buying the Atlas, cause I want teh udder logo!!!
Their Virginian one is spot on and I own it.
It depends on how fussy you are. As noted above, the logo is a type that would be most unlikely to have been found behind a steam engine. A simple “Norfolk and Western” and the caboose # would be more appropriate. More importantly, it’s the wrong body style. If you check page 179 of the 2007 Walthers catalog, they show a C&O wood sheathed cab. Compare w/ the N&W pix and you’ll see the C&O car is considerably shorter. Both N&W and C&O used basically the same desigh (length, window placement, etc) on their wood and steel cabs but they designs weren’t interchangeble between roads. In other words, a wood C&O cab would look pretty much like a steel C&O cab but not like N&W. Of course, if the C&O looks “close enough” (I’m a big fan of “close enough”), go for it!
Here is a link to the Va. Tech Image base on cabooses. It’s where I go for all thing N&W
http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/trans/nss/cars/cab
You can make up your own mind, most of their shots are from the N&W archives.
Bob
Thank-you, Jim and Bob. You guys are founts of information! Bob, that is a super image archive…I appreciate your pointing me to it. [8D] I can see that the BLI CF offering, if it comes to fruition, will be a good model to add to the collection. It’s just that I could buy five of the Atlas ones…wrong ones it turns out…for the same price. [sigh]
-Crandell
selector,
I know where you are coming from. I haven’t found any appropriate steam era cabbies in N Scale for my Y’s yet, so I’m running the wrong ones.
But I know what I’m looking for![swg]
Bob
Thank you Atlas! I’ve been searching for a red N&W northeastern looking caboose to go with my A class. Now I see one that fits the bill, affordably.
With a paint job and the right decals a MDC caboose can be a decent N&W stand in, AMB put out a craftsman model a few years ago, and the Atlas also works if you ‘erase’ the hamburger herald. Atlas also released a non-Trainman series with black roofs that is otherwise the same basic model.
I am a stickler for accuracy on steam engines, but not on much else. Don’t know why.
The best looking thing to put behind a Y6b is a Class A… and a LOT of loaded hoppers.