by lucakiki
Hi all! I am a newbie, and have a few questions. Being ItalianI am absolutely ignorant on American trains, but I happened to purchase a few Santa Fè engines, and quite a lot of assorted freight cars. N gauge!
I would like to avoid at least the bigger mistakes in representing the real scenery.
Q 1 All of my engines are in the red / silver livery in what I think is called the War Bonnet scheme : did they ever use this livery also for freight trains, before switching to Blue yellow (Given this is true!) for freight traffic?
Q2 Would/ could freight cars from different companies end up on Santa Fe roads?
Q3 . Would or would not at least the caboose be always be in Santa Fe livery?
Q4 I have passenger coaches in Silver with a red stripe along the windows: what does this red stripe mean compared with the all silver livery? Earlier, later, or just different?
Thank you very much for any help and suggestion.
Luca
I would like to avoid at least the bigger mistakes in representing the real scenery.
Q 1 All of my engines are in the red / silver livery in what I think is called the War Bonnet scheme : did they ever use this livery also for freight trains, before switching to Blue yellow (Given this is true!) for freight traffic?
Q2 Would/ could freight cars from different companies end up on Santa Fe roads?
Q3 . Would or would not at least the caboose be always be in Santa Fe livery?
Q4 I have passenger coaches in Silver with a red stripe along the windows: what does this red stripe mean compared with the all silver livery? Earlier, later, or just different?
Thank you very much for any help and suggestion.
Luca