Did NYC have brown painted heavyweights or just green and gray? Thanks sincerely Brian
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The NY Central heavyweight cars were painted Pullman green. The Pennsylvania Railroad painted most of theirs tuscan brown.
A few years ago MTH did some two tone brown cars lettered for NYC. Some were included in a set headed by a J1d Hudson. It was supposed to represent a train run on the Big Four CCC&St.L. J1d class Hudsons numbered 66xx did run on the Big Four but I haven't found anything which shows the colors of the cars they ran. Maybe someone more familiar with the Big Four can comment?
Pete
Check out the Canada Southern web site.
Scroll down to "Other paint schemes and notes".
*Pacemaker cars painted BROWN with yellow striping and red ovals above car numbers
* Motor Queen cars painted BROWN with FAWN window band.
The Motor Queen cars as produced by Rivarossi in HO.
Jim
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Yeah I noticed K line did some brown NYC Heavyweights and was wondering if fantasy or real.
The tuscan K-Line cars are fantasy. They did their own version of the Lionel 50th Anniversary set based on the 1950 773 set with the Madison cars. They couldn't give them the Lionel Lines name so they lettered them for NYC. The cars were released along with their scale Hudson
Pete
I wish K-Line would have lettered them for Luxury Lines rather than NYC.
I plan to run them behind a Canadian Pacific Hudson and a N&W "J".
They are locomotives that I have no train for and am thinking the Tuscan cars will look good behind them.
