Atlas NS standard cupola caboose with N&W Decal

[w neal]

The standard cupola caboose that Atlas did, the Norfolk Southern version with the circular N&W Decal on it. Was it prototypical, or was it fantasy?

Thanks

[EL3632]

Yes, see picture: https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=575959

[w neal]

I never shoulda doubted Atlas. Ta mate!

[southernman]

I have to stop doing so much prototype research. I knew where that picture was taken without reading the caption. I’m spending way too much time on the computer studying something I may never model.

[wazzou]

Isn’t that cupola dead center?

[central.vermont]

Isn’t that cupola dead center?

I believe it is and only one year later the yellow in the logo faded out too white!!!



http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4940728

[Skeebo]

Based on how vibrant all the colors are on the later picture, I tend to think it was a repaint rather than a fade. I'm not convinced yellow would fade to vibrant white in only a year.

 Jim

[Mark5]

Isn’t that cupola dead center?

Good eye - the caboose is a N&W C32P class (the Atlas model is closer to the N&W C31/C31P class).

[central.vermont]

Isn’t that cupola dead center?

The photo I linked above says it's a C31P class.
So does this mean that the Atlas car is a C32P class of car??

[Mark5]

The photo I linked above says it's a C31P class.
So does this mean that the Atlas car is a C32P class of car??

I am actually not sure (need a good side shot), but I do think this is a N&W C32P caboose.

https://www.nwhs.org/data/caboose/view.php?ID=1745

NS put C31P on the repaint - no idea why!

Here's a better side shot - of a C31P: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a9e6fd29687f223f06740e/1595466020409-8XSCF3MWQ71UO2M31QE9/NS+555608+CABOOSE.jpg?format=2500w (this 555608!  )

My books are packed up at the moment, but from memory the C31 class was built 1969-70  (518500-518699 or so) and has a somewhat offset cupola - this class is similar to the Atlas tooling (cupola windows are wrong). https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=202895

The C32P class was built 1976 or so and features a centered cupola - these were numbered in the 555XXX series. https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=165580

Under NS, things get confusing (to me anyway) as some or all of the C31P class have been renumbered into the 555XXX series.

The Atlas model is lettered as a C31P class (like the proto), but the tooling is off for a C32P. 

[greenwizard88]

Why were they running a coal drag with a caboose in 2016?

[Mark5]

Why were they running a coal drag with a caboose in 2016?

I'm guessing that it's a mine run. On many mine runs, there is no way to turn the train around, so for many years a caboose was used on one end so that when the caboose end was the "front" of the train - one of the crew could watch the track ahead.

It was like this for decades on some branches - but my knowledge only runs up to the beginning of this century.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I have to stop doing so much prototype research. I knew where that picture was taken without reading the caption. I’m spending way too much time on the computer studying something I may never model.

Eh, fun time is fun time.