New Haven McGinnis Paint Scheme

[nblum]

Through my interest in N gauge, I've learned some interesting things about the colorful orange and black New Haven paint schemes from the 1950s, which were designed by a Yale professor named Herbert Matter.  There were some real eye popping schemes that didn't make it into final production due to the New Haven's problems with money:

http://www.nscalecollector.com/NSC_McGinnis_New_Image.asp

McGinnis moved to the Boston & Maine and would have implemented some Matter designs there but it never happened:

http://www.nscalecollector.com/NSC_Boston_Maine.asp

Some interesting historical information as well as pictures of the designs on N gauge Micro-Trains rolling stock are shown at the above links.

[alexweiihman]

That is really interesting, especially the expiremental paint shemes....be great if they were made in O.