MTH BAR F3As - Gauging Interest

@Side Track Hobbies posted:

Many of you have seen MTH's latest announcement on their new run of F3s....

We have always liked the Bangor & Aroostook F3s...both the early-50's silver/blue and the mid-60s dark blue/silver trucks.

If we were to do a special run, which version would you prefer?

We would run F3As with two road numbers.

Thanks,

Al

These requests would be better with an image or a link to an image of the actual paint scheme being described.

Updated w/ links to pictures of each potential version.

Thanks

Good Morning Mr. Rudman.

\When I click on the link to your second picture, I get a page that says bad title. Have a great day and stay safe.

Jim Sutter

Only if you made cabeese to go with them

Good Morning Mr. Rudman,

Your link to your second picture is now working. Thank you. Both are very nice. If I was you, I would do both.

@Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

Only if you made cabeese to go with them

If MTH were to run some woodsided cabooses, we would think about doing a run that would try to approximate a BAR caboose.

Thanks

I might be interested in the blue/gray scheme. The blue/yellow scheme seems like something I could paint myself if I wanted one. It would really depend on cost, but I am looking to add some BAR engines to my collection for a future layout project.

Al,

Thanks for considering this project.  I would be interested in the 60’s dark blue and yellow.

Chris

Thanks Al, have wanted some of these for a long time and would hope that the prototype color is very similar to these HO models I posted some years ago. It almost looks like Cadillac's "White Diamond" with a bright luster. Definitely not a plain Silver or a light shade of Gray!

IMO the Silver & Blue is beautiful, preferable to the solid blue. I'm actually building my passenger consists in the slightly later black, red and gray.

A thought regarding a BAR caboose. BAR had a unique profile for a caboose, probably converted boxcars, with a central side door. I've never seen it produced in O Scale or three rail. With the exception of potato reefers, we don't see many BAR products. Third Rail recently offered GP7/9s in two different BAR liveries; I bought both...  there is a market!

Atlas has the tooling for the converted WW2 troop sleeper cars.  BAR bought some of them surplus and converted them to cabooses.  They were red with yellow ends.  The BAR extended vision caboose that MTH did a while back looks nice, but had no prototype that I am aware of.

And yes, I would be interested in the grey and blue BAR F3s.  A very sharp livery IMO.

Are these happening? I haven't seen a MTH Announcement email about them yet.

I like the looks of that unit; I think I may buy one.

I’d be in for a set, it’s a beautiful paint scheme. Did the BAR have B units in this scheme?

Put me in for a the blue version ( would send a down-payment if that would help) -would you do a B unit in that color ? -certainly would look great but I am not sure whether they actually existed-any BAR experts know ?  turtle7

So I poked around a bit-in Jerry  Angier's "Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in full color" book on pg.52, he pictures a B&A F3 AB pair -in the two tone gray color with yellow stripes scheme from 1948-and says "While the B&A originally had 4 B units on its roster, it quickly became apparent that they were not suited for northern Maine and were sold to the PRR ". Some B&A diesel rosters don't even list such B units-others do.  I also found a picture of a B&A ABA set waiting at the LaGrange IL site in the same color scheme. So I have to presume that none of the B units were kept around long enough to be repainted in any subsequent B&A paint scheme. So again, sign me up for a dark blue A unit!!  Thoughts from more knowledgeable B&A fans, please.   

If I can only pick one, I would choose this one.

I like 'em all, I'm in for all the road numbers, 1 of each, any way you make them.