maybe a waste of space but.......?? about Athearn SP caboose

[TomcatVF-211]

I just purchased an Athearn caboose lettered for the SP, the question is, did the SP ever paint a caboose (side number 1741) bright red with a white roof. I know that they had many different paint schemes for their caboose including the SPSF merger caboose and the Daylight caboose but I haven't been able to figure this one out, was there actually a caboose painted like this and where can I find a pic of it. by the way it is Athearn 74664if you haven't seen it yet. Any info you can give me would be appriciated.

Eric Strohmeyer

[ericsp]

Surprisingly, the paint scheme is accurate. Click here to read about it.

[TomcatVF-211]

Hey thanks, I have spent much time in Richard Percy's excellent website ever since I frst found it way back in the mid 90's and totally missed that, I guess I was too intent on finding a picture of it. I kind of figured that there must have been at least one painted like this as Athearn has made a lot of progress towards improving the realism of there paint schemes, but sometimes, like Ronald reagan once said "trust, but verify". Thanks again.