Walthers EMD 567 prime mover

[swoodnj]

If I'm not mistaken 567s could have also been painted in that funky green color, kind of a light zinc chromate.

[garyla]

bmvernil

Hi everyone, was wondering if anyone had picture of their Walthers kit and how they painted it and weathered it.

Here's one more place to check out:  If you get Railfan & Railroad magazine, see the picture on page 61 of the latest edition, March 2010.

[EM-1]

Seems like the heavy engine manufacturers each have a stock color they paint their engines.

 A couple years ago I had a nice job assignment up at the Kenworth truck plant to check out a product of ours Kenworth was installing on their trucks.  Had to climb over the brand new Caterpillar engines to hook up and disconnect instrumentation.  At the end of the day, found out that Cat had changed their yellow enamel to a water based paint.  Problem was, the paint didn't cure well at lower temperatures.  So, this one fine March evening after work, I spent a couple hours washing Caterpillar Yellow paint out of my jacket in the motel room bathroom.  The only nearby laundromat was closed for repair work after a fire.  Luckily, the paint hadn't cured, and I was able to get everything out.

[train18393]

I do not know if this is applicable or not, but...when I worked at a GMC truck dealer our Detroit Diesels made by the same company, but smaller, like 53 0r 71 cubic inches per cyl rather than 567 were painted in Alpine Green. We would order rattle cans of the paint directly from Detroit Diesel with a 51xxxxx part number. Perhaps such an animal is still available. It was a bit lighter than the standard green that machine tools are usually painted, and lighter than NYC jade green (actually Century Green), but since you are going to weather it you will have plenty of leeway.

Paul

Dayton and Mad River RR

[EM-1]

Looks like if the engine is brand new out of box or just back from a rebuild, some kind of light tomediun gre overall would be most likely.  Just out of the loco, maybe a natural metal on the exhaust collectors/mufflers.  Although the link did show a light blue a couple times.  I somehow don't thing EMD really would have painted them the yellow I saw used, since Catterpilar has used that color on their engines almost forever.  No sense using a color that makes people think of a competitior.

[jwhitten]

doctorwayne

 

jwhitten

That's a great picture! Did you take that? If so, what a lucky find!

John

Thanks, John.  The picture was taken in Goderich, Ontario, a couple of years ago.  I had gone there on a nice day in early spring to view the ex-CNR station, which was for sale, but by the time I arrived, there was rain and freezing rain coming in off Lake Huron.   They had some other equipment sitting around outside, but the weather was too miserable for further investigation.

 

The station, already privately-owned by a local who had bought it because he liked it and didn't want to see it torn down, was in very good shape, but the zoning was so restrictive that it couldn't be used as a home or as a restaurant.  Additionally, the lot was not much bigger than the building itself, and I didn't have the money to buy it "just because I liked it". 

The line past the building leads down a very steep grade to the salt mine, which, I assume, is the main reason for railLink operating the line.  Here's a view of that area, on a nicer day (although the date on the photo is obviously incorrect - dang digital cameras!)

Wayne

 

 

That's a cute little snowplow. Wonder what it'll be when it grows up??

 Station's cool too. I wish I had the money to buy something like that 'just cause I liked it'....  There would probably be a lot more preserved railroadana, that's for darned sure!

So it looks like you not only got some cool photos but a good story to tell that day too.

 

John

[bmvernil]

Thanks for the input everyone. I did already find the images on Google as suggested. I was just interested in seeing what everyone had done with their Walthers kit. Sometimes it's just nice to see a visual of what other people do to get inspired (just take Dr. Wayne's layout for example, I look at the pics of your layout when I need inspiration).

 

 

[doctorwayne]

 

jwhitten

That's a great picture! Did you take that? If so, what a lucky find!

John

Thanks, John.  The picture was taken in Goderich, Ontario, a couple of years ago.  I had gone there on a nice day in early spring to view the ex-CNR station, which was for sale, but by the time I arrived, there was rain and freezing rain coming in off Lake Huron.   They had some other equipment sitting around outside, but the weather was too miserable for further investigation.

The station, already privately-owned by a local who had bought it because he liked it and didn't want to see it torn down, was in very good shape, but the zoning was so restrictive that it couldn't be used as a home or as a restaurant.  Additionally, the lot was not much bigger than the building itself, and I didn't have the money to buy it "just because I liked it". 

The line past the building leads down a very steep grade to the salt mine, which, I assume, is the main reason for railLink operating the line.  Here's a view of that area, on a nicer day (although the date on the photo is obviously incorrect - dang digital cameras!)

Wayne

[BIG JERR]

I just did the walthers one ,it does come with a set of instructions but no pict of a finish engine and of corse some extra parts to bogle the mind . I painted mine a poly scale old concrete color since that looked pritty close to a pict of one I seen on a history chanel special about diesels ,  wow model looks like the above but the color I chose is not even close,mine looks faded tanish,and above looks blue/silver ,oh well I stuck in in my diesil shop looks good ...Jerry

[jwhitten]

doctorwayne

Here's a prototype photo, if it's of any use to you:

Wayne

 

 

That's a great picture! Did you take that? If so, what a lucky find!

John

[cthart]

Of course you can use Google Image search for topics such as this.

http://images.google.com/images?q=emd 567

Or just the colour images:

http://images.google.com/images?q=emd%20567&imgc=color

Cheers,

Colin

[EM-1]

In my former employment I used to run driving tests in the company parking lot alongside a NS interchange track.  During the summer, the crew often had one or more access doors open on the SD-40-2s' hoods.  It always seemed to me the engines were a medium blue-grey with the mufflers a natural metal color, close to what the above picture shows.

[mreagant]

I don't have a photo, but may be able to take one in a day or so.  I went with a light 'battleship gray' flat and then lightly washed it with a very thin grimy black wash to bring out the details.  It is lashed with scale size black chain (can't remember who makes it) to a flat car and parked under a Walthers Overhead Traveling Crane in front of a small engine repair shop.

[garyla]

Lou Schmitz's UP Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, Volume 2 has a picture (on p. 125) of what appears to be a V-16 EMD 567 prime mover, sitting in bright sunlight, anchored to an MW flat car.  

I'd call the color light "hospital green", for lack of any more appealing name!

[doctorwayne]

Here's a prototype photo, if it's of any use to you:

Wayne

[bmvernil]

Hi everyone, was wondering if anyone had picture of their Walthers kit and how they painted it and weathered it.