Looking for two-color paint scheme for steam locos, pass. cars/coaches and freight/wagons, that will look good in snow, falling leaves, muddy spring and muddy (but green) summer in Erie, Pa.
Logo will be a standing Bison/Buffalo as depicted on the new US nickles. Instead of number plates on the smokebox, I'll be using the nickle cut-outs soldered to screws.
I like Gold and Green, but don't want to be mistaken for Great Western or Pennsy. I like Sky blue, but don't want Thomas. I like yellow and black but don't want DRG&W or Bumble Bee express.
The name is the Buffalo C.H.I.P.S. Railroad/Railway 1:19 scale, 2'6"/45 mm
Trying to figure out a legitimate meaning for the CHIPS acronym.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Best,
Ignatius
How about an old look. You are using the Buffalo as your logo. Something that makes the trains look like they had a very long, hard life on its way to going under but somehow is able to stay alive. Just like the buffalo. At one time they were all over in the mid-west and now the numbers are dwindling. They are just hanging on. Im thinking Something like an old wooden look. Use the colors you like but really weather it to look like they havenot been painted in decades..
Didnt they use buffalo chips (poop) for the fires to keep warm, since there was very little wood. I though I remember reading that somewere. I could be wrong
You can nickname it the Buffalo Bills line
Engines = Hunter Green & Royal Blue with flat black trimming (pipes, lines etc.).
Passenger = RB top, HG lower. Add a thin white line just under the windows.
Freight = Add a thin red diagonal from right-top to bottom-left with an abstract arrow head pointing to bottom left with buffalo insignia inside.
Caboose = Hunter Green, Royal Blue arrow head (extra large) with gold buffalo head, white triangular corners. (Think back to the old way of sticking photos in and album. Remember those little black sticky tabs for each corner that had a little flared edge up each side.)
Coast Headland Industrial Packing & Shipping
Coastal Heartline Intertidal Processing Services
OK, that makes it sound line you are a fish packer/hauler. You asked, I replied.
Tom Trigg
I like tan & blue. it will look good with a brown buffalo.
CHIPS - Conneaut, Harborcreek, Irving, Pinehurst and Selkirk
all area towns around the lake in order
-Brian
Ok, how about Buffalo CHIP Railroad as in:
Coastal Highlands Industrial Portage
-or-
Coastal Hinterlands Industrial Portage?
Still open to color scheme suggestions. All sound very good, but are uncomplimentary with one another.
ignatius Ok, how about Buffalo CHIP Railroad as in: Coastal Highlands Industrial Portage
I like it.
ignatius Ok, how about Buffalo CHIP Railroad as in: Coastal Hinterlands Industrial Portage?
Sounds too European (German?) unless of course you are running European equipment.
Could I suggest "Central Highlands & Inverness Peninsula of Scotland" Railway. In typical Scottish manner your colour scheme could be: Salmon Pink and Emerald Green (Great North of Scotland Railway), Portland Blue with Ivory and Red, (Caledonian Railway), Brown and Orange with Yellow, (North British Railway), Dark Green and Turquoise, (Glasgow South Western Railway), or my personal favourite, Cardinal Red with Pink and Grey, (the Highland and Islands Railway).
Carlisle Citidel Station must have been a riot of colour during the late Victorian era since the only black locomotives would have belonged to the LNWR -an English company...
As to "hinterland" being German -forget it! It a fine old Cornish word.
regards
ralph
The Home of Articulated Ugliness
(C)ompletely (H)ilarious (I)diotic (P)eople (S)mile. Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with railroads.
I vote Rio Grande Gold
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