WIP: A Brand New "Buggy"

Tonight's work was a repaint of the Virtual New Haven Springfield Line NE-5 caboose into the Boston & Maine Railroad's McGinnis scheme. The B&M, along with a few other New England railroads like the New Haven, owned several cabooses or "buggies" of the NE-5 design. The B&M NE-5's were numbered C-1 through C-49 and were originally painted maroon and red. By the time Patrick McGinnis took the reins of the B&M in the mid-1950s they began to be repainted into the Boston & Maine's famous "McGinnis blue" schemes. This is a bit of a simplification however, as there were a few different livery variations the B&M used on their blue cabooses.

One of the sharpest blue caboose variations, in my opinion, had black ends and a large horizontal black stripe which stretched along the sides of the caboose, with the McGinnis-era B&M "cross" logo emblazoned in the center. It first began to appear on many caboose designs the early to mid-1960s and lasted on many of the B&M's cabooses until the end of the Boston & Maine in 1983. This repaint will give your trains a classic Boston & Maine look and will fit right in on the Springfield Line, Portland Terminal or the Boston & Maine Route. (Note: This repaint will require you to own the Springfield Line Route, available from Trains and Drivers.)