Santa Fe All The Way!!
Is there anything else? :)
CN Olive & Mustard
CP Multi-mark
NAR (Northern Alberta)
B&O Blue & Grey (classy)
BCR Green on Green
D&H Lightning (see B&O)
BN Cascade Green
VIA dk 1st scheme dk blue w/ yellow stripes
CMSTPP wrote: The Milwuakee road's Hiawatha paint. The pre 1955 UP scheme. You can't go wrong with the orange, marroon, and black.James
The Milwuakee road's Hiawatha paint. The pre 1955 UP scheme. You can't go wrong with the orange, marroon, and black.
James
though i like NS paint scheme too
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Santa Fe Warbonnet, just classic.
SP Daylight
Followed closely by BN Green/Black (Childhood memories)
Favorite currently in use is the BNSF Executive scheme (why can't they all be like that instead of that ugly Green/Orange garbage?)
mononguy63 wrote: m sharp wrote: Although I'm a Purdue guy, I still liked the red and cream applied to the Monon F3s for passenger service. Sacrilege! The simple beauty of the gold and black freight scheme is unbeatable. Of course, just about anything with that great Monon block lettering looked pretty darned good.Jim
m sharp wrote: Although I'm a Purdue guy, I still liked the red and cream applied to the Monon F3s for passenger service.
Sacrilege! The simple beauty of the gold and black freight scheme is unbeatable. Of course, just about anything with that great Monon block lettering looked pretty darned good.
Jim
Jim...you got me there!
Mike
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Everyone is picking the flashy kodacolor paint jobs. Give me the the Pennsy Tuscan w/ gold stripes anyday.
Recently saw a GG1 at Harrisburg station in the green w/ 5 gold stripes, looked sharp too. But not a nice as the tuscan.
Personally I like BNSF's Heritage I and II schemes. I'm also partiat to the old Great Northern green and orange scheme after which I think BNSF partially patterned their schemes.
Ron
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1) Delaware and Hudson avon blue and yellow...Their avon blue is the nicest color in a RR scheme.
2) Chicago & North Western yellow & black...classy scheme
3) Western Maryland...classy railroad with a nice look
4) Norfolk & Western...like Penn State football uniforms, classic, basic and tough.
RedLeader wrote:AT&SF's red/yellow/silver warbonnet is by far the best, both in color composition and in meaning. You can't get any more streamlined than those PA/B's in the Ol' famous warbonnet with shiny silver cars. I've always thought that the red and yellow lines should have extended to the cars sides. That would have given a complete continuty to the color scheme (Just like Amtrack's Phase I, which by-the-way, is a great color scheme and no one seems to have noticed).I can't see anything beautiful (artistic) in Conrail's scheme, unless offcourse you love blue and the rr!
I'm with you 100 percent Redleader. The "Valley Flyer" did have the red and yellow stripes along the bottom of all the cars in the consist. I once spoke to the publisher of one of the major model railroad mags. and he said that every time he published an edition with a Santa Fe "War Bonnet" on the cover, they sold almost twice as many copies that month. My second favorite would be the Rio Grand in the yellow with black stripes and silver roof.
Dick
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I'm kinda partial to the B&ML's black, red, & gold.
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My favorites are:
Modeling the fictional B&M Dowe, NH branch in the early 50's.
Historical: Rock Island maroon & yellow, followed closely by the more modern red & yellow scheme adopted in the 60's.
Current: The Iowa Interstate RR. Black body with yellow ends. A red stripe down the middle of the body, containing the railroad name in yellow lettering.
Factoid: Purportedly the IAIS colors are adapted from the school colors of Iowa's major state universities - Hawkeye black & gold (U of Iowa) with Cyclone crimson & gold (Iowa State).
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
1. Santa Fe Warbonnet
2. Southern Pacific Black Widow
3. Southern Tuxedo
For me it's a no brainer. The CPR's Tuscan Red Grey Yellow pinstripe scheme witht eh script lettering. The earlier block lettering is okay, but the script is a true classic. espeacially on the big six axles Alco M630's and 636's
Rob
As a kid in the 60s and 70s, as the Erie Lackawanna trains rolled by on the crossing near my house hauling all kinds of cars, my favorite was the blue Chessie cat painted on the yellow boxcars.
Always was and is my favorite. I managed to get a Lionel blue on yellow box car. I recently was able to add an N scale blue on yellow to my N scale trains. I hope to find the blue on yellow in HO so I can add it to my set and have one of each. I have an HO YELLOW on BLUE, but it's just not the same. Alas.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
My all time favorite the B&O blue/ gray:
WM Circus is not too shabby either:
And of course what I run the most:
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
I like the BNSF Heritage 2 and the new "Swoosh" looks. Also a fan of the CP Beaver pain, and the new basic CP paint. Ever since I got into model railroading I've liked the NS paint scheme. So basic and "fast" looking. Also, both of the SOO Line schemes that can be seen today are pretty cool.
As far as freight goes, I like the Railbox, boxcar yellow schemes and the Railgon paint schemes. The many different schemes of the Canadian hoppers cars, ex. the Alberta blue scheme.
Some really striking ones for me:
The original UP Armour Yellow and Brown scheme for their M-10000 and City of San Francisco trains.
The original Milwaukee Road Hiawatha orange and maroon scheme.
Great Northern Omaha Orange and green
Northern Pacific two-tone green.
Of course, SP's famous red/orange/black Daylight scheme.
SP's remarkable "Black Widow" scheme on their early diesels.
Rio Grande's handsome Grande Gold and Silver scheme.
Rio Grande's later black and orange on their later generaton diesels--man, that color scheme looked like it meant BUSINESS, LOL!
Burlington's steamers--silver smokebox/firebox, black boiler, red oxide cab roof and gold lettering. Talk about HANDSOME!
Tom
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Although I'm a Purdue guy, I still liked the red and cream applied to the Monon F3s for passenger service. I was always partial to blue C&O Geeps with the yellow pin stripes, and the dark green with lightning stripe on the Indiana Harbor Belt switchers was cool.
If it isn't obcious to everyone, My favorite Paint scheme is GN Big Sky Blue scheme of 1967-1970 vintage.