NYC Caboose

[wm #734]

I didn't know that. I thought Lionel's ICG paint scheme was fictitious. I guess not.

[overall]

Illinois Central leased some of them for a while years ago. THey were painted in the orange and white paint scheme they had back in the sixties and seventies. Jim Boyd published a picture of one crossing an interlocking in one of his books, I beleive. Lionel MPC offered thier pothole caboose painted for IC colors in the early seventies.

George

[wm #734]

Yes, only the PRR, PC, and CR ever owned them. And that goes for the other caboose types too; the N6b, N8, etc.

[phillyreading]

wm #734

Only the PRR, followed by the Penn Central and then Conrail, ever had the N5C's. None of the Williams N5C's are prototypical, except of course the Pennsylvania one. They're still nice cabooses though.

So what you are saying is the Reading Lines caboose by Williams is not prototypical either in the N5C class?

Lee F.

[NYC Fan]

Ah yes Williams Electric Trains, where you can get a Pennsy Hudson to go with your NYC porthole caboose!  Not my thing, but what the heck 

[Bob Keller]

The N5C was a Pennsy design not used by the Central. The Central had a wide variety of cabooses in both standard cupola styles and bay-window styles.

On p 108 of the NYC Color Guide, Vol. 2, published by Morning Sun, it shows caboose 20112 in Pacemaker colors, and states five of this type were re-painted for Pacemaker Service. The car resembles the body style of an older wood-side caboose, but it has a very short cupola and the sides appear to be steel.

If the Central HAD owned them, I'd like to think the Central would have duded them up in Pacemaker colors due to their more aerodynamic form.

[wm #734]

Only the PRR, followed by the Penn Central and then Conrail, ever had the N5C's. None of the Williams N5C's are prototypical, except of course the Pennsylvania one. They're still nice cabooses though.

[PhrozenAce]

Morning Forum, Can someone tell me if the color scheme on the Williams New York Central N5C Porthole Caboose actually prototypical? The color scheme resembles the Pacemaker scheme. Did the NYC have the N5C Caboose in its fleet? I remember reading somewhere that the NYC favored the "bay window" type caboose, but I don't recall the article saying the "bay window" type was the only type of caboose in the NYC fleet. Thanks, Bernard