brilliant yellow and black colors for the New York/New Jersey shortline. They were popular photographic subjects as they lugged Sea-Land double-stack trains over the former Erie mainline east of Binghamton, New York, or han- dled way-freights to Syracuse and Utica. Two further ex-NYC, ex-PC, ex-CR
C-430’s were acquired secondhand by another New Jersey shortline, the Mor- ristown & Erie. However, the story did- n’t end there. Four C-430’s: two from the Morristown & Erie and two from the NYS&W were acquired by the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad. Currently, WNYP has three in service, based in Olean, New York. All of this past shuffling of ownership
has given Bowser many paint scheme options for their C-430 models, and they offer them all, from the black of NYC, PC, and Seaboard to the colorful short- line schemes of recent times. In total Bowser offers 16 different paint schemes: Alco demo, Seaboard Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville, New York Central, Penn Central, Conrail (black and blue), Reading, RDG patched, two Green Bay & Western schemes, New York Susquehanna & Western early, NYSW late, Morristown & Erie and two WNYP schemes. All of these color schemes are beautifully applied with ac- curate colors and crisp opaque lettering. It takes much more than good paint
to make a fine model, though. Bowser has excelled in the details applied to the models as well. Both Hi-Ad trucks
and AAR B trucks are offered and ap- plied to the correct prototype models. NYC specified clasp brake rigging (two brake shoes per wheel) on their Hi-Ad trucks. Accordingly, those units had two brake cylinders on each side of the truck. Bowser has copied that practice on the NYC models and on the models depicting their subsequent owners. On the other hand, the GBW C-430 and the three demonstrator units had only one brake cylinder on each side of their Hi-Ad trucks. The models follow suit. The New York Central style of
clipped air intake housing is present on the appropriate models. All C-430’s had dynamic brakes except for the lone GB&W unit. You guessed it. By using a slider in the mold, Bowser has elimi- nated the dynamic brake grids from the roof of the GB&W model. The attention to details continues
with prototypically correct horns at- tached to the models’ shells in the cor- rect location. NYC had a particularly bizarre horn arrangement that Bowser has faithfully reproduced. In addition all models have lifting hooks on the roof, freestanding grab irons and cut levers, multiple-unit hoses and fine stanchions supporting slender hand- rails. The grillwork, louvers and screens
are beautifully rendered on the model. Of particular note are the engine air intake and dynamic brake intake screens. These are the finest this re- viewer has ever seen. The inside of the
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