I'm guessing the NYC guru you seek is Dick Karnes, but I will offer a POV on the 19000 series and NYC Bay Window cabooses. I have about a half dozen of the brass 19000 series G&W Models. I used Scalecoat Freight Car Brown on all of them and live with the variations. If you can find a color photo of a caboose track, they are all different with weathering and age anyway - perfection is in the eye of the beholder!
In the "Kindraka" file is a photo of the NYC Bay Window caboose painted with one part Caboose Red and one part Boxcar Red, Floquil. I think it looks good. (I attached a link, hopefully it works.) The caboose is a modified brass model, changed to NYC Lot 778. NYC had only 3 or 4 of these, they were the first of the Bay WindoW style and had an extra window over the conductor's desk. That was eliminated in all subsequent bay window cabooses. Whoever commented on the roof's not being painted black was spot on. BTW, the caboose was painted by Jerry Poniatowski in Michigan. He used to lurk here. Later when the NYC painted the cabooses Jade Green, some had the area over the bay window painted white. This, I believe, indicted a caboose assigned to pool service. Jim Kindraka http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1226119013/pic/252842323/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc --- In [email protected], "Luther" <lcs...@...> wrote: > > Thanks Chris for the insight. I have done some research and noticed the body > color on the roof. I have some drawings from the MR article that also showed > 2 different configurations for the roof walks. I was hoping the resident NYC > guru would chime in too. <skip> > > Luther > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
