GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

A few years ago, I wanted CDOT commuter train(I live in Connecticut). Bought a couple of the Walthers Comet commuter cars and cab car, undecorated, (Walthers hadn't released the CDOT cars at the time)and a couple of sheets of Microscale "CDOT" decals. The next year, Walthers released the Comet cars in CDOT scheme. Go figure.

As far as the CDOT F40PH-2's. They are having a lot of problems with them breaking down. A couple of times CDOT had to send the FL-9's out to rescue them.

I've always liked the look of that red stripe. I remember seeing some of the M2/4/6 commuter cars under New Haven Catenary one time when I was going to a scout camp in Rhode Island. I've love to get some M2s if I could find any. The one company I know of that produced them no longer does.

I'm still mad that I lost the cab car bid. I'd rather have both or none, to bad you can't contact other people on Ebay. At least all I need now is a Cab Car.





Some prototype photos from Grand Central terminal-

CDOT Comet II cars are lined up on the left, and MTA Comet III and II cars on the right. Close inspection of both trains showed the "ghosts" of the old lettering as featured on my models.







A CDOT cab car... Might be a good idea to start with an Undec car, eightyeightfan! Gotta fill in that front window....



The Metro North/ MTA cab car-



The locomotives, old and new schemes. These P32AC-DMs directly replaced the FL9s not many years ago.

There was a photo of an FL9 and a two car commuter train with this equipment, so I figured it was perfect, a real "pike sized" passenger train.

These sets also ran with the ex-MBTA F10s. I have an IHP F10 which I haven't done anything with, still undecided whether to do it as Metro North or MBTA.

If it were me, I'd go Metro North, no questions asked. That said, I did purchase an MBTA cab car many years ago to use as a parts source... but then I didn't have the heart to steal its trucks and wheels, so it sits unused.