USA Trains New Center Cupola Caboose

The New Haven version will DEFINITELY be going on my "MUST-BUY LIST" - should go perfect with the Aristo RS-3 (if they ever get around to producing the New Haven paint scheme they were talking about for this year!). Need a New Haven freight train to complement my PA-powered USA Trains "Merchant's Limited" streamliner! (For days when I wanted to play "mainline standard gauge" vs. (mostly Shay-powered) "narrow-gauge logging / mining railroad!). I was actually contemplating kitbashing / scratchbuilding a caboose along these lines, since nothing else on the market remotely resembles them.

Mark, the non-McGinnis paint scheme you suggested would be nice to see as well; I'd settle for either one (judging by the line drawing on the USA Trains site, though, looks like they're planning on doing the McGinnis scheme) . The modernistic block "NH" scheme was maybe the ONLY good thing that incompetent crook McGinnis did while he ran the rest of the New Haven into the ground.

Tom

" Tom,

Why wait for the green/orange RS-3? There are a lot of NH road units out there, inlcuding protoypical FA-FB, GP-9, 44 ton switcher, and U-25-B!!"

Mark, I was after the one of the RS-3's specifically because I remember watching them switch the former Bay Street yard (now long gone other than overgrown mainline track that used to run down to Newport RI) back when I was maybe 4 ~ 5 years old. I got lucky & picked one of the McGinnis - schemed ones off of eBay about a month or so ago. I'll still go for one of the Alpert-schemed ones if Aristo ever gets around to producing it. By the way - it makes for a NICE-looking New Haven commuter train at the head of a couple of USA streamlined coaches!


(I've got pictures, just haven't downloaded them from the camera yet).




Tom