Green...

[xdford]

Jumijo

It's a model (toy) railroad. Paint them pink if you want. 

 

 

In a prototype for everything "moment" circa 1977, Western Australian Government Railways started repainting their locos in the corporate "Westrail" scheme but a bumper wheat harvest meant that there was a loco shortage so a number of locos were running around in a pinkish undercoat colour for a month or so until the locos could be released for the final repaint. 

 

I don't know how the natural weathering would have affected the paint between coats as such!

 

Just for your interest!

 

Cheers from Australia

 

Trevor

[SouthPenn]

Paint them pink and purple if you want to.

[RobertSchuknecht]

tstage

Which is pretty much the same as Erie, N&W, and Norfolk Southern black...

 

That was my point. No one is going to say, you shouldn't have used that color because it looks like X railroad.

[Anonymous]

SeeYou190

Aside from John Deere Green and Caterpillar Yellow, what colors are really iconic to anything industrial?

IH Farmall Red.   

Ford Blue.

Except no one has written a country song with those two in it that I know of.

 

[SeeYou190]

BMMECNYC

IH Farmall Red. Ford Blue.

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I honestly do not know that Farmall Red is a unique color. It really looks just bright red to me. Lots of other stuff is painted that color. Ferrari Red is iconic, but it is much warmer in tone than Farmall Red. Also, most Ferraris I see anymore are Black or Yellow, so I think Ferrari has given up on its trademark color.

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Did you mean Ford Grabber Blue? My 2011 Mustang was painted that color, and it did turn heads, but since it accounts for less than 10% of Mustangs sold, it is far from iconic.

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Onan Green was an Iconic and unique color, but their green generator sets are only installed in RVs now where you cannot even see them.

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Waste Management really tried to make a go of it with a unique shade of Purple as their corporate color, but then when political tides turned to environmental concerns they switched their corporate color to green.

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-Kevin

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[gmpullman]

Coca-Cola red is, I believe, a registered color.

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coca-cola-red-our-second-secret-formula

But those restrictions only apply when that color is used to sell a similar product. Other registered colors are Tiffany blue, Owens-Corning pink, Post-it canary, Cadbury Purple and one which may actually not be permitted for a common carrier to use would be UPS Brown, since a railroad may be looked upon as a carrier, same as UPS.

Purple? 

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Not my cuppa-tea, but it WAS the 1970s!

Good luck, Ed