Posted By Cheapy 38-2 on 01/22/2008 8:26 PM
beautiful.. Yeah no snow in Ohio either? They should make plows for these. those front end steps are real delicate be careful. Im wondering about painting the handrails blue or black on mine. the white seems too bright...what do you think Rob? thanks for the pics
One easy thing about modeling Conrail..they didnt have much variation in paintscheme!

Yes, handrails should be blue with white "ends"...its possible there are zero exceptions to this.
or if there are exceptions, its maybe ONE engine..
the standard CR scheme always had blue handrails.
(USA trains is notorious for getting paintschemes wrong..no Conrail loco ever had all-white handrails like that..
I dont understand how they can get things like that wrong..all they have to do is look at a picture of ANY conrail loco and it will be obvious its wrong..
Early to mid Conrail had just the basic scheme, just the "can opener" logo, 1976 - 1980's..
later Conrail, 1990's mostly, had the "Conrail quality" Scheme.
CR 7993 was originally Penn Central 7993, built in 1972.
I dont have her listed as a survivor:
http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychaos/NewYorkCentral/index.htm
(although that doesnt mean she isnt out there somewhere!)
wait! I found 7993!
here she is!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=314538
PC 7993 to CR 7993 to EMDX 793 to UP 436 to LLPX 2318
Scot