N&W N Scale Caboose Dilemma!

[NW Modeling List]

Bill:

Microscale 60-482 is N-Scale decals (white) for N&W cabooses!  In both 
Roman and Gothic lettering.

I have several sheets with unused Gothic (late) lettering, the Roman 
(early) lettering having been used up.  I'll gladly send them to you; 
you can write me via gib51 at frii.com.

I model N&W in N-Scale and know of just two commercially-produced, 
prototypically-correct  N&W cabooses (on the rails c.1950), both in 
unpainted brass, which appeared maybe a decade ago.  So you might find 
them on e-bay.

They were manufactured by Overland, items 2822 and 2823, the CG and C2, 
respectively.

With Bowser Pennsy N5 bodies and Kato end ironwork, roofs and cupolas I 
have cobbled several creditable CHs;  the windows are a little outsized, 
and one day I'll get around to customizing them.

My real pride and joy are classic woodside CFs converted from spare 
bodies and what-have-you.   With a bounty of patience they turned out 
protypically much to my satisfaction, and elicit from area rail 
enthusiasts, "CFs in N-Scale!!"  If you are interested, I'll send you my 
work plan.

Good luck with "precision transportation" cabs!

Frank Gibson


On 5/5/2011 7:37 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:

> The use of the "Hamburger herald"  would have begun 1964-65 timeframe.  The block NW was begun in 1971.  In 1959 cabooses were painted red with black/brown roof and Norfolk and Western in Roman lettering written on the sides with the number (also in Roman) centered below it. Grab irons and handrails were painted black.  I'm not a N-Scale modeler but I don't recall seeing any N&W pre-1964 merger prototype cab (caboose) models in N-Scale? (CF, CG, CH, C-1, C-30, C-3)  The N&W Caboose Book published by the Society and available through the Commissary has all you ever wanted to know about N&W cabs (cabooses) and more.

>

> Ed Painter - Narrows, Virginia living in Russellville, AR

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> I'd go with #2. The hamburger is later and the block NW is much later,

> after engines were repainted from blue to black.

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> Jeff Cornelius

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> Hello N&W modelers,I’m really going to need some help from you retired

> formeremployees, or students of N&W history. I want to model the year

> 1959. I have a pretty good handleon what emblems go on what locomotives

> for that era, thanks to you…forgiving me some answers and pointing me

> in the right direction. Now I hope you will do thesame concerning the

> cabooses.  From my findings of what is on the market for n

> scalecabooses, there are three basic heralds.   1. The white hamburger

> emblem below the cupola and Norfolk and Westernwritten in white block

> letters below, centered on the body. These appear to beon the C-17s,

> which places the cupola near the end of the car.The same configuration

> appears on the C9 (Atlas calls it aNE-6), placing the cupola in the

> center of the car.. This particular Atlasmodel has four numbers divided

> into two sets, 557728&  557733 and 557763&  557769. According to The N&W

> Historical Society site, the caboosenumber series of 557761-557784 were

> former NPR cabooses, in which one pair ofnumbers fit.  NPR was merged

> into theN&W in 1964, so I am in doubt that even though the emblem “may”

> fit into myera, the numbers don’t. I couldn’t find any information on

> the other twonumbers.

> 2. N&W in small white block letters (about the size ofthe hamburger

> emblem) placed directly under the cupola…period! No “Norfolk&Western”

> displayed anywhere. This configuration also appears on the C17 model.

> 3. N&W in large white blocked letters directly under thecupola….on the

> C9 model were the cupola is in the center of the car, and sameas above,

> no “Norfolkand Western” displayed anywhere.   I also searched for n

> scale decals (Microscale&  ShellScale) of the white hamburger emblem

> and couldn’t find any…just in case I hadto buy an unmarked caboose and

> dress it to fit my era. My reasoning is that thecaboose emblems would

> be very similar to the locomotive emblems…as they changed.I am pretty

> certain that the large white block letters would not fit…eventhough the

> caboose’s built date would fit in to the 1959 era. Besides, thewhite

> block letters for the locomotives came in the early 70s shortly after

> JohnFishwick became N&W’s CEO. That being said, I am not certain about

> thesmall white block emblems on the cabooses.  So…my question is…What

> N&W caboose emblems would fitinto the 1959 era?  Please correct me, if

> you find any of the information Istated above is incorrect.  Thanks in

> advance for your help. Bill Capranica 

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