Thank You.
CSSGEGE,
MP15ACs, not SW1500s; thanks for the education and correction.
I did try to weasel out of any error by writing I wasn't there for them (the GP38s and....)
yeah, call me shameless.....
The "Yellow stripes" referred to the C&O GP7s in the pictures that PM Railfan attached to his post.
LIRR actually had MP15AC's, not SW1500's. They appeared to work in passenger service on the Oyster Bay Branch. Some were equipped to supply HEP when working with GP38-2's on the longer trains to Greenport and Montauk.
Because this 'road, after 1954, had only 1 paint scheme until the GP38s and SW1500s came along, this may miss the target, but.....
RS-1s, H16-44s, RS-3s and Century 420s had the same paint as the C-liners, which I saw used only in passenger service.
I wasn't there for them but I think the GP38s and SW1500's had the same paint scheme; the GP38s were primarily passenger power, I recall. The SW1500s were dual service engines.
And, if I recall correctly, there was a time when the CNJ had only one scheme, which was garb for GPs, RSs H15-44s, and H24-66s.
Speaking os FM Trainmasters, H24-66s, SP's were in freight Black-Widow 'til the scarlet and grey scheme was applied to every engine from E9s to SW1s. Tho' dual service, the TMs were stalwarts of the Peninsula Commmute fleet
The railroad in the first 2 paragraphs.....the Long Island Rail Road.
Psgr GPs? yellow stripe?
Where's the reference; in one of those links? "yellow stripes"
Let's fu' get 'bout it.
Pertaining to the subject, hood units in psgr colors, were commuter (fleet) engines excluded?
The LIRR painted their H-16-44s, RS-1' and "3's"in their colors, LIRR, psgr...uh, huh.
Was the yellow stripe only on the passenger GPs?
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B&O's passenger GP7's and GP9's carried the passenger paint scheme with black and gray bands on a blue carbody. AFAIK, they were mostly used in commuter service in the Baltimore-Washington area, and possibly in the Pittsburgh area. Around 1960, one was kept in Akron to handle the Akron-Cleveland segment of no. 17 & 18. Around the mid 1960's, I saw number 7, the Shenandoah, running through Akron led by an E7A, with a torpedo tube Geep serving as the second unit. This was highly unusual. E units were the normal power for through mainline passenger service.
Tom
Yes, NYC had dual service Geeps in the light gray passengerr scheme like their passenger cab units. The Wabash had dual service first generation geeps with steam generators and air tanks above to make room for water capacity below but the paint schemes btw freight and passenger was indistinguishable.
Victor A. Baird
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SP(and T&NO) had 22 passenger GP9s, of which 12 had dual controls and "wings" on both ends in boththe Black Widow and Bloody Nose schemes. 11 of them (all dual-control) retained their boilers into the 1980s, including the four "torpedo boats" with no dynamic brakes and air reservoirs on the roof.
Soo Line/WC had one dual-control GP9 (2555) that had the "Pine Tree" on both ends.
Rob and All:
Thanks for the suggestion. I see that some roads had passenger colors on Geeps while some did not.
The NP's Geeps were freight colors. I have an old train order from the early 1960's about a Girl Scout conclave in Idaho. The NP had four GP-9's on the head end and those probably went through to Livingston.
Ed Burns
B&O had steam generator-equipped Geeps in the passenger paint.
SP rostered 11 GP nines with duel controls for passenger/commute duties with wings on both ends, otherwise paint was standard among the fleet.
Dave
CNJ H15-44's and H16-44's were painted the same tangerine and blue as were the DRX 6-4-2000's (but so were the F3's and DR 4-4-1500's)
N&W passenger GP9's (500-521) were originally painted in tuscan red. ATSF U28CG's were in warbonnet when those were passenger colors.
After the Quiz question about the "Daylight" Cotton Belt GP7 Ed Burns (NP Eddie) asked if there were any other hood units in passenger paint - he remembered MP And T&P units. New York CEntral had lightning-stripe GP7s and GP9s, as well as RS2s and RS3s. Any others?
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