Re: My Opinion...

Thank you Taylor, you said exactly was I was going to say in response to Mr. PRSL (whoever that may be, I for one find it hard to respect an "expert" on every subject who will not even give his real name).
Anyway Mr. PRSL, what makes the paint job used by GLRR Inc. "historicaly acuurate" and my fairly much exact copy of said paint job some sort of abomination? Face it pal, the C&S, D&RGW etc never ever painted mere gondolas more than faded boxcar red. The Loop is a tourist railroad, so its cars should look decent, hence the classy paint job allpied by the Ashbys which I fully admit to copying. Also, given your mind blowing expertise on any and all narrow gauge subjects I am surprised that you did not see the number and lettering placement for what it is: a blatant rip off of the way the C&S(and many other roads) tended to letter their open air rider cars, that is the car number at each end with the railroad name in the center of the car. After all these are passenger cars now. As you are so fond of saying "look at the picture and see for your self". (For reference look at the photo of C&S coach #59 on page 194 of Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII, or C&S cars 141 and 201 on pages 206 and 207 of the same book. Looks like the C&S had no problem putting numbers at each end of the car and the railroad name in the center. Guess you will have to go back in time and scream at them about not being "historically accurate".)
Jason Midyette