Hi Just wanted to say thank you for sending me a birthday wish on the 3rd and more importantly for reminding me that I was a (very) dormant member! I am an Englishman and I have been interested in US railroads and model railroads for over 50 years, especially the passenger trains of the 1950s/60s and particularly the Southwestern RRs, and I have a large collection of N scale models. Since your welcome reminder of my membership I have been excited to read - on your forum - of the forthcoming HO ATSF Athearn GP7 in Zebra colours. Not Frisco, but something to go with my brass Key Imports Santa Fe coach-combine-caboose I was given by my late sister as a momento of a train trip accross the USA. What I really need are some Frisco or Katy passenger cars for my N scale Frisco racehorse e8s! ;O)) Thanks again for your wake up call. Gerry
Gerry, we welcome you as you awake from your dormancy! While there may be a good amount of sentimental value in the combine that your sister gave you, it could always be modified into either a plausible Frisco prototype or "imagineered" into one. Do you have photos of it? Some of the N-Scale Fellows here (Paul Bender and Charlie Dix are two names that immediately come to mind) might be good resources for your N-scale passenger consist quest. Years ago I recall Dr. Wallace McMillan doing a lot of research on N-Scale passenger cars; anyone know where Wallace is nowadays? Best Regards,
Gerry--Don't know if you were able to see this when it was posted the other day: Wheels Of Time now has (Very close to) prototype 70' Frisco baggage cars. They're arch roof cars with Frisco lettering and four different road numbers. They also have some monitor roof baggage cars that could be easily decaled for the Frisco. Both the arch roof and monitor roof baggage cars can be re-detailed and "Frisco-ized" for even more variations (Swapping doors, variations in roof colors etc.). Hell Gate Models has a PRR 70' RPO-baggage (BM-70) that could be re-detailed to look like monitor roof Frisco RPO's (#101, 106, 134, 135). The Rivarossi-Atlas-Con-Cor paired window coach fairly represents the 1923 AC&F Frisco 770-775 series cars (The roof of 770 and 771 were slightly different however). If you could fabricate some arch roofs, the Rivarossi cars could represent quite a few more SLSF coaches. Also Micro-Trains is supposedly going to release a monitor/clerestory roof, paired-window coach. These few cars would give you a nice "Pike-Size" Frisco Sunnyland or Firefly of the ca. 1959 period: --E-8 --Baggage --RPO-baggage --Coach --Buffet (Another Rivarossi coach) Tom
