I was noodling about with some Marx B&O diesels and postwar Lionel coaches, when it occurred to me that, if the CNJ's Blue Comet from New York to Atlantic City had made it to the postwar diesel era, it might well have looked something like this:
In case you were wondering, one of my blue coaches has a reversable truck with a knuckle coupler on one end and a tender coupler on the other so it can work with drawbar engines... 
Mitch
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Just a few shades lighter than the Comet.
@coach joe posted:Just a few shades lighter than the Comet.
True. I do have an MPC Blue Comet train; I'm mulling over possibly painting a couple of Alcos to match... 
Mitch
I've got some of the MPC and some Rail King Blue Comet cars. I bought the MPC to pull behind a Lionel TMCC Wabash Hudson, then decided the train needed to be longer, hence the RK cars. Not remotely prototypical but still blue.
I do have a pair of K-Line Wabash Alcos but the "Blue Bird" paint scheme is way too far off.
@coach joe posted:I've got some of the MPC and some Rail King Blue Comet cars. I bought the MPC to pull behind a Lionel TMCC Wabash Hudson, then decided the train needed to be longer, hence the RK cars. Not remotely prototypical but still blue.
You need a Wabash brakeman car to go with... ;-)
I've got one that works and one that was too far gone to repair so now its just a box car.
@coach joe posted:I've got one that works and one that was too far gone to repair so now its just a box car.
(nodnods) Gotcha. 
When you paint those Alcos remember, BC Blue, not RT Red!
@coach joe posted:When you paint those Alcos remember, BC Blue, not RT Red!
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