I spent the weekend preparing two AM plug door boxcars for their CGW lettering.
Having never seen one of the prototype cars either in person or in a color
photo, you could say I'm skirting the edge of a pit blindfolded.
Originally, the "word on the street" was that these cars were a chocolate brown
in color, so I had two carbodies painted that way. The further I researched
them (sometimes I think I have TOO much information), the more the consensus
was that they were maroon in color.
O-o-o-k-a-a-y! Well, I've got two things going for me, 1) there's going to be
nothing to compare them to on SHABBONA RR, and, 2) they're so new (c. 1960) on
c. 1957 SHABBONA that they haven't even been built yet.
The decals are on the way, via LBRenterprises, but I still can't get a mental
handle on what they're going to actually look like. Not to worry, though, I'm
sure that when I post a photo here and on the CGW Yahoo group, the experts will
come out of the woodwork. I hope something shakes 'em up, over there especially
- compared to this group, I think the proverbial cat got their tongue.
CGW intrigues me, because, even though I had an interest in railroads, I was
unaware of its existence until it didn't exist any more. I the '90's, driving
back from Council Bluffs, IA, I saw an abandoned CGW trestle in a field. Since
I had just left I-80, I couldn't help but wonder how much safer people were
crossing that trestle on passenger trains before it was abandoned in comparison
to the new and improved bridges of I-80 that replaced it?
A-a-a-h, Progress!
Bob Nicholson ____________________________________________
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