Dear Group, Our club, the Central Jersey S Scaler's, picked out the prototype for the AM bay window caboose as a club project. Ron Bashista had asked the club to help out with the first new plastic caboose in "S". With our profits from the 1988 NASG convention held in New Brunswick, NJ, we started a series of local railroad freight cars kits made for us by AM. My first choice to present to the club was the classic Reading caboose that over 50 railroads used (I think 5 or 6 in NJ alone). Of course I was ignoring the fact that this was the same caboose made by the tens of thousands by ACG. Good buddy Dick Karnes pointed out this flaw in my choice in a phone call the day before we were supposed to send in our final choice to Ron B. A lot of research was done rather quickly by myself and Don DeWitt, an Erie fan and and the person who did all of the artwork for the caboose and the freight car series. The club decided on a C301-C350 Erie Caboose. Of course later I found out that this caboose was the same as the Lionel choice 027.... Don
On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:31 AM, David Engle wrote: > > BTW, the A-M bay-window caboose is reportedly E-L prototype, FWIW. DJE > > >
