If you want to see "Chinese Red" you can come to central IL and see it on the Bloomer Line, a small shortline made up of grain shippers. They office/work
out of Gibson City and most of their equipment is painted in the CB&Q like color.
Highliners went the route of the GSB SD40-2 in the early to mid eighties. I remember we in HO were all excited to have a SD40-2 and then it took them two or three years to be produced and the product itself was wanting in many areas.
Believe it or not, in HO, it was Lifelike who came out with Northeastern cabooses and a BL2 that was "superdetailed" from the factory and forced Atlas, et al, into the production of something beyond Athearn "blue box". And Atlas shook the HO world in '84 with the smooth running Atlas/Kato Rs-3, which would be a good runner today.
As to S, I remember holding a F something from SHS in St. Louis at the National Train Show in '01 and marveling over it...I knew I should have gone S right then and there.
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