Hi All,
Many Australian diesel locos were painted in similar tones to US domestic railroads and I am sure I have seen a picture similar to the South Australian 800 class I think of a terminal road on the West Coast somewhere but I cannot find it... Anyone able to help please?
TIA
Trevor
My choices would be the Chicago South Shore and South Bend around Chicago or possibly the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range and some of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern engines which were all orange.
I would say CSS&SB is pretty close.
https://www.american-rails.com/images/x0230938273472j2k60270921808.jpg.pagespeed.ic.7WxG2XRIUp.jpg
But, it's nothing like the Missabe. The DMIR diesels wore the colors of the University of Minnesota's "Golden Gophers" - maroon body, with yellow-gold stripe.
https://www.american-rails.com/images/1867661251253g1n1m1ko7089.jpg
However DMIR did frequently host diesels borrowed from sister U.S. Steel railroad Bessemer & Lake Erie, who did use orange and black colors.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/53342/ble827-1.jpg
UNION PACIFIC with the red stripe moved.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
This may be another of those internet "what color is the dress?" deals. On my PC, the Ozzie engine is clearly orange. Given some answers, it sounds like some people see it as yellow?
wjstixGiven some answers, it sounds like some people see it as yellow?
Yes, to me it looks exactly like UP Armour Yellow.
Orange here.
Ray
Red pigment fades. Orange is red-yellow. The photo looks like faded orange.
Hi All, Thanks to a PM, it turns out to be based on a cross between the Tacoma Belt ( to wit https://www.wplives.org/ha_collection_norm_holmes_tacoma_belt.html) and thanks to you all, CSS&SB.
There was a class of loco built by the Alco licensee here painted even more similarly to the Tacoma shown here
https://www.minnipasiding.com.au/peninsula-pioneer/diesel.html
I am wondering what might have inspired the following scheme and if it was US based
https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/hlmciz/south_australian_railways_500_class_no_515_at_the/
The old Victorian Railways scheme was a Royal Blue and Gold version of Erie's here while the Commonwealth Railways seems to have been based on ACL. The Silverton Tramway diesels was a direct copy of Burlingtons Chinese Vermillion and Grey scheme shown here https://www.flickr.com/photos/oz1/4798451266/
So if you want to know what a Burlington schemed ALco might have looked like...
Thanks Again in Anticipation
To quote Captain Renault, "I'm shocked, shocked!" that no one has mentioned the late Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific and look at the Erie Railroad in the US and these Victorian Railway class B dual cab license built EMD units All you need to do is replace the "VR" herald with the Erie's. (The explanation may well be that the EMD Styling Department is well known for having had a variety of stock paint schemes in various colors they could offer the customers. So the VR scheme could have originated at La Grange, Illinois). I've always been tempted to buy an HO model on line (they exist) and do just that to go along with my PRR GP3 and SD24 and CNJ RF-16 A&B in my my "locomotives that should have existed". I can see it hauling commuter runs into and out of Pavonia Terminal
The B class was a great loco but I wonder if you may be disappointed as the loco was compressed to fit our tighter loading gauge here, hence the radiators with the 4 central fans instead of over the engine top etc.
Before the commercial locos were available, many modellers here bashed F7's or F9's together to make a B class or shortened an E8 or E9 to make a Victorian S class (the loco you have in your post built 1957-1961 - the B's were 1952 to 1954 and a few are still running) which might be more appropriate size wise for your layout.
Could emulate the double ended Jersey Central locos!
Cheers from Australia
Colors are close to Milwaukee Road, but the maroon stripe on those diesels was quite a bit wider.
https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=476146