I don't think you'll find a red P&LE caboose. Everything I've seen has the P&LE cabs being delivered in that dirty yellow color and then being repainted Century Green (jade green) in the pre-merger days. For what it's worth, the red AM chose is no where near accurate for any of the NYC cabs or subsidiary lines. It's a generic "caboose red" color. The P&LE managed to maintain some of its own identity under NYC ownership. The yellow cabs and the OD green geeps come to mind as iconic of the P&LE and what set them apart from the rest of the "system". I think AM probably made red cabooses up.
Chris Borgmeyer Re: Is there a prototype for the RED American Models P&LE cabo... Posted by: "empirebuilderjjhill" [email protected] empirebuilderjjhill Fri Jun 8, 2012 5:33 pm (PDT) Ogacker, Re; http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/message/87096 Thank you for telling me where the ACTUAL prototype for the American Models baywindow caboose sits. http://www.flickr.com/photos/20238451@N00/5604252797/ Like most model railroad companies, American Models produces their models in both the roadname of the actual prototype and also in the colors of other roads that used the same or significantly similar cars. WHAT I'M HOPING TO FIND, is a picture of this kind of car (a baywindow caboose), in the roadname of the model (P&LE), with a paint scheme that resembles the paint scheme of the model (red). I'm assuming that American Models based this model, a RED P&LE bay window caboose 511, on an actual prototype, and I'm hoping to find a picture of that prototype. If anyone could help me find such a picture, it would be great. Thus far, all the pictures of P&LE bay window cabooses I've found are either YELLOW, or PRR GREEN. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=PLE --- In [email protected], ogacker@... wrote: > > The American Models prototype caboose sits in Marion, Ohio. It's based on > an E-L caboose. > ogacker >
