Originally Posted by Gary Graves:
No decals yet. It's still purple, for now.
Gilly
Larry, You looking for something like this car:
http://modeltrainhub.com/wp-co...oad-Post-vehicle.jpg
or this:
http://www.railroadcollectible...assC/ACL-RPO2541.jpg
this one's an O gauge (on 2-rail track, look at the coupler and wheels)
I've never tried making any ACL decals, but may give it a go just to see what comes out (if I can find the correct font).
I have used www.railfonts.com and an alps printer to make lettering for passenger cars. They have fonts that are very similar to those used by major railroads. Hope this will help.
Leon
Originally Posted by Bob Delbridge:
Larry, You looking for something like this car:
http://modeltrainhub.com/wp-co...oad-Post-vehicle.jpg
or this:
http://www.railroadcollectible...assC/ACL-RPO2541.jpg
this one's an O gauge (on 2-rail track, look at the coupler and wheels)
I've never tried making any ACL decals, but may give it a go just to see what comes out (if I can find the correct font).
After looking back through my books, the purple scheme would work best for my era modeled. The decals are Champ P-41, which I located 1 set. I can find plenty of Champ P-118, which has the yellow lettering from the late 50s - 60s. I hope I can find more P-41 sets in case something happens. If anyone has some, please let me know.
Joining in a bit late on this one but I have videos of both ACL E6 passenger consist and a more recent SCL Lime green E8 consist on my you tube page
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...ideos?view_as=public
Grew up in South Florida, and regularly saw all three railroads........ great stuff.
Mark
Originally Posted by hibar:
Originally Posted by Larry Neal:
Has anyone ordered this book from Morning Sun Books? I hope to get one by Christmas. There is also a companion book for the Seaboard Air Line.
Larry, I picked this book up at the Greenburgs show in Va. Beach last weekend.
Has some nice color photos inside, makes me want to get a GP7 oe F3A in ACL paint.
Not in the book, but I spotted a photo of an ACL 4-8-2 Mountain. I knew they had the R-1 4-8-4, but never paid attention to the Mountains.
All I recall from back in the 50s-60s were the black units. My parents house was within eyesight of the ACL swing bridge on the Western branch of the Elizabeth River.
Mark, nice ACL E6s 
You guys are gonna make me spend my $$$
Originally Posted by c.sam:
We found this pretty observation sitting all by itself (on the 'bay) and picked it up for the color. K-line 18".
From the looks of it, I think that observation is a repaint. I may be wrong, but I don't recall K-Line ever making any 18" ACL passenger cars.
Nice purple, the only K-Line 18 inch ACL were some Purple Madison heavyweights, sold as part of the scale 4-6-2 release.
Originally Posted by Bob Delbridge:
Originally Posted by hibar:
Originally Posted by Larry Neal:
Has anyone ordered this book from Morning Sun Books? I hope to get one by Christmas. There is also a companion book for the Seaboard Air Line.
Larry, I picked this book up at the Greenburgs show in Va. Beach last weekend.
Has some nice color photos inside, makes me want to get a GP7 oe F3A in ACL paint.
Not in the book, but I spotted a photo of an ACL 4-8-2 Mountain. I knew they had the R-1 4-8-4, but never paid attention to the Mountains.
All I recall from back in the 50s-60s were the black units. My parents house was within eyesight of the ACL swing bridge on the Western branch of the Elizabeth River.
Mark, nice ACL E6s You guys are gonna make me spend my $$$
I don't have that book, I have 4 other of ACL, may add that one........ let us know what you think.....
Mark,
I like the book, but then again ANY book on ACL or SAL is good for me.
There's more color photos of the black scheme than the purple, but there's some beautiful photos of purple engines that'll make you drool (and some of them faded that'll make you gag).
Engines (diesel and some steam) and passenger cars mainly, but there's a few caboose photos too including the M3/4 which I have been looking for.
I probably paid too much for it, but it was the only one I saw at the Greenburg show and one of the few books on ACL I don't have.
Thanks for the info Bob......... I will post a picture of the 4 books I have in a bit, just to compare.
Was checking out the Lionel 2015 catalog and LionChief+ has a Purple Color ACL F-3 coming out!!
For years I was looking for a reasonably priced ACL Purple F-3 but prices on e-bay always ran high. Well now best of both worlds as you get the Deep(Northwestern University) Purple color F-3 and as a LC+!!
I do have the WBB ACL F-7's with the faded purple which is nice too. I recently replaced the bulbs with LED's and it looks really cool!!
Bob.......... here are the books I have, any other ACL beside our discussion book you just got?
Originally Posted by Bob Delbridge:
Here's a photo of a Mullet River Southern Rwy caboose kit:
Update!!!
I emailed Mullet River Model Works to see if they would be interested in making an ACL caboose and Glenn Guerra the owner(?) said he could do it if he can get 10 confirmed reservations and some additional data on the caboose itself. I also emailed the ACL/SAL Historical Society board members, letting them know Glenn is interested but needs additional data.
So anyone with an interest in getting one of these ACL cabs, please email Glenn:
glenn@mulletrivermodelworks.com
I'm in for at least 1 so only 9 more to go 
The caboose I emailed Glenn about was the ACL M3 woodside cab, not the plywood side cab:
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Warren Calloway has provided me with all the blueprints he could find in the ACL/SAL Historical Society's archives, plus several photos of this caboose, I have forwarded them on to Mullet River.
Here's an email I just got from Glen Guerra:
Bob
I got all the drawings and info. I will start on some drawings and keep you posted. It will be a while but I will work on it. The kit will be $120 like my other kits less trucks, couplers, and brake details. I sell the brake details separate so the modeler has the choice between the K and AB type brakes. You can announce that I am working on the model but don’t make any promises on delivery. I have a few other projects I need to finish.
Let him know you're interested!
Well, as we all know Mullet River Model Works closed a couple months ago.
I did manage to get one of their Southern cabooses to attempt a rebuild into an ACL M3 caboose. I think I got close, at least on the outside. I replaced the steps that came in the kit with some from PSC and had to make the shades/awnings over the windows. I still need to replace the roller-bearing trucks with friction-bearing.
Anyway, here's a couple of photos:
(need to fix that crooked handrail 
)
These kits were/are not for the novice, I had a bear of a time soldering the brass underframe together.
Anyway, it's about as close to an ACL M-3 cab as I'll probably ever get.
Here's a photo of the real one:
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Oh, the windows actually slide up and down!!!
Originally Posted by Bob Delbridge:
Well, as we all know Mullet River Model Works closed a couple months ago.
I did manage to get one of their Southern cabooses to attempt a rebuild into an ACL M3 caboose. I think I got close, at least on the outside. I replaced the steps that came in the kit with some from PSC and had to make the shades/awnings over the windows. I still need to replace the roller-bearing trucks with friction-bearing.
Anyway, here's a couple of photos:
(need to fix that crooked handrail )
These kits were/are not for the novice, I had a bear of a time soldering the brass underframe together.
Anyway, it's about as close to an ACL M-3 cab as I'll probably ever get.
Here's a photo of the real one:
Bob it looks good.
Love that ACL. They had some cool cabooses. So some on desplay when I was down in Southern Florida
Looks great Bob. Well done! Did any originals have yellow handrails?
Gary, really not sure about the handrail colors. Looking at all the photos I have, it's hard to tell when they were taken.
I'm expecting one of the Atlas ACL Covered Hoppers (pre-ordered back in March 2015) early next week from PDT. Has anyone got one yet and if so, what do you think about it? I know Mr. Muffin has had them in for about a month.
I think that's going to be close to my last pre-order, 9 months waiting for a common hopper to see the light of day is just unreasonable.
I'm on tap to get the SAL Silver Meteor IF GGD gets enough pre-orders, and I'm willing to wait for that, but for a common piece of rolling stock at such a high $$$...I can do without.
Nativefl posted:Bob.......... here are the books I have, any other ACL beside our discussion book you just got?
Here is another pair to add to your collection. Although one is a little late to the party.
I didn't know about the Goolsby book although I do have the SAL passenger train book by the man with the oh, so familiar name...
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Got the Atlas 70-ton Covered Hopper today.
Nicely built model, very heavy. The model is gray, I thought these cars were black but looking at the photos in Paul Faulk's book I do believe the gray is correct (or it's a very faded black).
I got the 3-rail model, but removed the claw couplers and add Kadees, had to drill new holes in the mounting pads and cut off the claw coupler mount so it would swivel without hitting the Kadee coupler box, took about 10 minutes.
The only "issue" I can find with it is the hatches are turned 90 degrees out from where ACL had there's. It may not be a problem though, they look like they can be turned, the housing the hatch is on appears to be a separate casting, will find out later and attempt to turn them. they do open so that's a good thing.
Anyway, here's some photos:
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Well...the hatches do come out, that's the good news.
The bad news is that these "square" hatches aren't. They measure 21/32" long and 19/32" wide, a 1/16" difference. In order to turn them 90 degrees I'd have to cut the openings in the roof 1/16" bigger going from end-to-end and add 1/16" spacers going from side-to-side so the hatches won't fall thru the holes.
It's something that can be done, but I'm not going to mess with it now, make it a later project, although every time I run it those hatches will be staring up at me 
Wow, been almost 2 years since the last post.
Has anything new come out in the past 2 years for ACL??? I'm STILL looking for some ACL full length passenger cars, heavyweight and streamlined. I need to check Union Station, OK Engines, and Delta Models for stuff I can use to make a train if nothing is available RTR.
Purple Train...Purple Train
Bob Delbridge posted:Wow, been almost 2 years since the last post.
Has anything new come out in the past 2 years for ACL??? I'm STILL looking for some ACL full length passenger cars, heavyweight and streamlined. I need to check Union Station, OK Engines, and Delta Models for stuff I can use to make a train if nothing is available RTR.
Bob,
The new Lionel catalog has 21 inch ACL streamlined passenger cars with purple letterboards. Full set plus add-on cars, including railsounds diner. Also has ACL purple E units to go with the cars.
Thanks Larry, will take a peek!!!
I hope to get a set of the Lionel ACL E6s and a set of the purple MTH heavyweight cars. I know it's probably not prototypical to run those together but I don't care,I think they will look awesome together.
I don't really per se, but I thought my Williams ACL E-7's would look good pulling my Weaver Royal American Circus 20" passenger cars on the club layout.
Someone asked why they don't have an Amtrak Chicago-Florida train anymore. They used to. It ran behind my home and the tracks from Logansport-Bringhurst are all that remain. When I visited my grandparents (where we now live), I loved to see those purple ACL engines pulling the SouthWind now and then. And, if you want to be more authentic, get the Lionel 1501 Northern rather than the Berk and put a charcoal-black tender behind it. I have one of the locos and the only thing I haven't figured out is how to change the "5" into an "8." as their Northerns were numbered in an 1800 series. I painted one tender in that scheme but now I have one that has the electronics still in it with matching plugs to the engine so I'm getting out the masking tape and ordering another set of decals. (I know, the electronics may or may not work, but the engine runs OK on my carpet layout.) I still have to put the decals that surround the steam chests on the loco, too. I'd like to find something close to the drum shaped covers that sit on the platform above the cowcatcher and then it'd be "pretty close." (I just picked up a cheap ball point and two tops should do it.) Also, the tender pictured is the one from my Lionel ACL Hudson.
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I grew up in Seaboard territory, the ACL ran to the east of where I grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. Not even much of the local modelers ran ACL/SAL or SCL or later road names. I never knew why but I always suspected those lines didn't run through the most scenic places to model on a layout for scenery. Beats me how you'd model a long leaf pine forest with palmettos.
Thought I'd dredge this up again.
Anyone got the Lionel 21" ACL passenger cars? How are they? Are they still available?
has anyone contacted GGD about making an ACL set? Better yet, has GGD made any similar cars that ACL owned/used?
I wish some O manufacturer would step up and offer a scale ACL #1504 USRA Pacific
Photos taken by me....
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Growing up in monroe n.c. I got to see seaboard gp9 and gp7.I recall seeing the local train that would come and pick up.The seaboard ballest cars that were picked up from a rock quarry.That is still behind my old school.I have a few ACL boxcars by weaver,lionel,mth and kline.I wish I could have got my hands on pulpwood cars.Cause my god I saw a whole lot of those cars.Every long freight train have some mixed in.Another thig in the monroe train station.There is a pianting of the ORANGE BLASSOME SPECIAL being pulled by a M2 mountain.Its an oil painting the train looks like its doing 75 to 90 mph.
Great link - https://www.flickr.com/photos/palmateer/5647377490/
Nice thread. The Pacific could easily be any model of the USRA. All Nation made one that is close - the sand dome needs an addition.
I have a photo of a bronze GP7 in ACL purple. I will ask for an ok to post it.
I have 2 ACL Pacifics and 2 F3s and a handful of rolling stock:
Ever since I got the GGD SAL Silver Meteor I hardly run any of my other passenger cars. I have 3-4 MTH cars in SAL livery nd have been contemplating changing them over to ACL. They're not correct for either RR so it would make no difference to me, except they're lightweights and I would rather have a set of heavyweights to pull behind Pacific #1549.
I do like that purple though.
