One of the things I plan on doing in the future is to kitbash my own model of the Jamaican Railway Corporation (JRC) system that I rode on a few times as a teen in the late 70's/early 80's before it went belly up in 1992. I don't recall the year, but one time I got to ride the train by myself from Kingston out to the rural town of Mandeville to visit relatives. My parents and siblings drove by car and met me there. I felt so grown up. Different time then, can't do that now. Jamaica, being a British territory, had the vast majority of their railway equipment from the UK, although it did use a couple US and Canadian diesels. Currently, the rails are only used for bauxite ore mining & shipping purposes with modern US diesel equipment.
1-Purchase and repaint the London Midland & Scottish (LMS) Railway Stanier passenger coaches that Lionel uses for its Harry Potter set to the JRC two-tone colors of green on the lower half, grey (spelled the UK way LOL) on the upper half. The JRC used these "carriages" in the 1950s.
2-UK company Metro Cammell manufactured DMU’s that the JRC used in the 1960s for passenger traffic thru the end of the service. Can’t find any European O Gauge versions of those, so will have to use MTH Budd RDC’s and make do with those. Those had the same green and grey color scheme originally and then in the 1980’s it became blue and grey.
The above image is from the MTH website: https://mthtrains.com/sites/de...mages/30-20516-1.jpg
3-Can’t find the English Electric (E-E) diesel locomotives used in the 1970s that I want in O Gauge either so will be using the Lionel Alco RS-3, which is the closest that I could find.
So after everything is said and done, the only “actual” Euro model that I will be using will be the LMS Staniers.
I have a book on Jamaican railways (currently packed away somewhere) with color photos that I will be using to copy and make the decals from. Would love to scan photos of those images in the book and then post them here, but that's a no no.
Below are some images that are not my photos but are links and internet photos of some Metro Cammell DMU’s in JRC livery.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...6949@N06/39928125243
http://metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com/pics/jama211.jpg
http://metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com/pics/jam211.gif
