Trainworx PD3000 / Corrugated gons out

[prropcrew]

Thanks, John - I noticed the H58 on those cars and was wondering...

No prob. I actually help out Spring Mills Depot as a technical consultant and in doing artwork as well, such as the art proofs you saw for all the PD-3000 schemes.

John Frantz

Owner
Mount Vernon Shops
www.mountvernonshops.com

[sirenwerks]

Grrrr, couldn't resist one of the PD3000.  If I bump my time bracket to actually run it I enter BN green territory. Eek.

[ljudice]

No prob. I actually help out Spring Mills Depot as a technical consultant and in doing artwork as well, such as the art proofs you saw for all the PD-3000 schemes.

John Frantz

Owner
Mount Vernon Shops
www.mountvernonshops.com

A lot of fun looking over those schemes!  Great work!!!!

[prropcrew]

A lot of fun looking over those schemes!  Great work!!!!

They were fun to draw and research. Thanks for the kind words.

[bbussey]

Some of the road names (such as the Conrail patch-outs) have deco variations based on the prototype cars.  The photos of the individual cars are now on the Trainworx site.

[lock4244]

Conrail:
http://www.train-worx.com/pd3000.conrail.htm

CEFX:
http://www.train-worx.com/pd3000.cefx.htm

[sdodge]

Interesting, I ordered 2 of the CEFX cars back in January and could not order by road number which was OK since I thought there was only 1 paint scheme. A little late to come up with variations.

I guess I will try to contact my dealer to see if I can order a specific road number...or...be surprised. 

EDIT: If you look at the MBK listings for these they use 1 photo of 95969 for all road numbers. So if I ordered no. 95975 I would get one with 2 gold stripes instead of plain. Could be good or bad depending on what you really wanted.

Not bashing MBK.

[bbussey]

The demonstrator cars have a slight variation as well.  The first car has Roman serif lettering reporting marks, while the other two have Gothic sans-serif reporting marks.  The rest of the markings on the three cars is identical.

The IMCO cars have variations also.  But Trainworx is sold out so photos won't be posted.

Other than these four (Demo, CR, CEFX, IMCO), the multiple car number artwork for the remaining roads is identical.

[bnsfdash8]

I just picked up a CR patch one at a show yesterday and I'm impressed so far. The only thing I don't like is the exposed screw for the coupler but that's a minor quibble. I will be picking up a few more of these.

[sdodge]

Received my 2 CEFX cars but did not get the paint scheme variations I requested. Despite that they are great cars and will probably turn out to be favorites on the layout.