I've been thinking off-and-on about grabbing the MTH JC F3 like the one in your picture. I figured this thread would draw you in eventually. John!!! Good to see you!!! I appreciate the e-mails you've been sending me all these months. I think it involves just replacing the E-unit. I have two Proto 1 locos that will get this conversion. It's called an "Equalizer". They are out of them right now, but a newer, improved conversion should be out in about 2 weeks. Tangerine-blue FM and it's in the Premiere line. BTW.I know you aren't much interested in DCC and TMCC, but there is a company called Digital Dynamics that has a VERY simple kit that converts Proto 1 locos into TMCC operation. And even the innaccuracies are in the earlier Proto 1 era, not the more current Proto 2. Most of the Premiere stuff seems to be pretty accurate. It's been my experience so far that the fantasy schemes in MTH (other than the FM Trainmaster tangerine-blue) have been in their RailKing line. Is that McGinnis New Haven F3 black-white-orange color not protypicall? I am pretty sure the orange-white-silver one isn't. I'm not real crazy about the green-gold colors. I'll bet Lionel does good with the New Haven F3 reissues too.īrian: I had a sinking feeling that was the case. Yet, they keep doing it so obviously, despite the complaints, the stuff sells. And I guess those that were back then, switched over to HO.Įven today, one of the more persistant criticisms I read of MTH is their incorrect placement of paint schemes on wrong locos and rolling stock types. Of course, 3-rail buyers back then were not quite as demanding as today. they were realistically based paint schemes, placed on different loco types for marketing/sales merit and not prototypical merit. I'd be willing to guess that the adaptation of the tangerine/blue scheme on the Trainmaster went along the same thinking as the scheme on the 1958-9 Lionel New Haven F3. I have some of the CNJ color books and have only seen Trainmasters photographed in either the solid olive scheme or the deep green with the long yellow stripes scheme. In my research, I could only find 3 types of locos that were painted in the Tangerine/Blue scheme and those were the F3, and two types of Baldwin "babyface" DR-series. It's my interest in the CNJ that made me wonder some years ago about the same question. Dep, I too like the Jersey Central although I am more forgiving about the later "Coast Guard" scheme.
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