At our annual meeting, seven members decided to go ahead with club cars. There are currently ~ 25 club members. We had explored having custom cars from major OEMs. The cost, lead time, minimum quantity, and lack of consensus of "what car" rendered that option impractical. Thanks to this forum, I was introduced to Christine Braden. The VO1000 was painted by Christine in 2019.
In the midst of the pandemic, Christine has been hard at work for our club. Using undecorated cars from Beth Marshall (with the exception of the green car), Christine has painted and lettered the cars. Today, all of these cars made an appearance on my layout. This will likely be the only time that all of these cars will ever be together at the same place at the same time.
Three cars had previously been done by RC3R member Walt. These cars are club property and have been quite popular at our local displays. These are the darker MTH Premier PS-1s interspersed within the consist.
To facilitate this ferry move, RC3R contracted Chesapeake Western. The Atlas Magor caboose is also fresh out of the paint shop as well. I could not bring myself to use one of my brass N&W cabooses for a repaint.
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Peter
Chris
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Tom
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Jerry
Dexter
Rick
Wally
IF you have a painting project in mind with custom decaling, I would encourage you to consider contacting Christine. She does excellent work. My email address is in my profile if you would like further information.