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Whats your favorite railroad paint scheme?

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Posted by hd8091 on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:05 AM

Passenger, NP Lowery, Fec, GMO.

Freight, BN Heritage , Heritage II, NP canoe

Special mention, SP Daylight

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Posted by CMSTPP on Monday, May 28, 2007 12:57 PM
 MilwaukeeRoad wrote:

Uh..Thomas the Tank Engine!Laugh [(-D]

On a serious note:

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Chicago and Northerwestern

Wisconsin and Southern

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For me I only have one and it's the Milwaukee road 1948 Olympian Hiawatha. Plus the Milwaukee's Twin Cities Hiawathas. Some pretty colorful trains indeed.

You just can't beat the Erie builts.

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Posted by GearDrivenSteam on Monday, May 28, 2007 12:46 PM

The Central Of Georgia.

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, May 28, 2007 9:07 AM
 Andrew Falconer wrote:

The SOO LINE in the 1960's and 1970's.

That would be the White and Red "Wing"(Curved red going up to the top of the cab) and the "Hockey Stick".

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Monday, May 28, 2007 8:39 AM

The SOO LINE in the 1960's and 1970's.

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Posted by myred02 on Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:50 PM

Well, here are a few of my favorites.

I've always thought that SD40-2s looked great in L&N's grey and yellow paint.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=69718

I also like L&N's dark blue with yellow stripes scheme.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=5386

CSX's "Dark Future" (also known as YN3) paint is also one of my favorites.

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Posted by loathar on Sunday, May 27, 2007 2:56 PM

CSX-bc2 and yn3 and UP Bush 4141.

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Posted by travon on Sunday, May 27, 2007 2:34 PM

Mine would be:

Southern Pacific Black Widow and Bloody Nose

Western Pacific

Devner, Rio Grande and Western

and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe

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Posted by don7 on Sunday, May 27, 2007 1:41 PM

Canadian Pacific - Maroon and Grey and Yellow

Canadian National - Light Green/Dark Green and Yellow

My two favorites, the paint schemes are gone now unfortunately, do not care for the replacement colours. 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 27, 2007 1:03 PM

ok, what the heck, mine would be BNSF Heritage II or the Premium Heritage.

If anyone wants an example of this, I am hapy to post one.  It just amazed me the other week when I was going to bid on a coupe of BNSG AC4400Cw's in H2 and asked the guy who obviously a BNSF fan and then he got cranky because he said he had no idea what the Heritage II looks like and if I want them I better speak English.  So obviously I ain't interested in speaking with this guy anymore.

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Posted by canazar on Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:13 AM

Same boat, there are alot of schemes that I like, but 3 that stand out.   (Not includeing my own  :D)

Northern Pacific, just the nice belnding of colors and the pattern they laid out.

Western Pacific.  Somethign ab out the orange and silver just screams to me.

Oh, I almost hate to admit it, but I love the new BNSF paint scheme too.

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Posted by RedGrey62 on Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:25 AM

Chinese Red and Grey

Silver E Units

Blackbird scheme (Balck and Grey)

Honorable mention to Wabash (not the dip scheme) and Rock Island Rocket scheme

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Posted by lvanhen on Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:19 AM

UP of course!!

Armor yellow/gray

Two tone gray

Armor yellow/brown (M100 etc)Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by soumodeler on Sunday, May 27, 2007 8:17 AM

Gotta be a tux.

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Posted by jbloch on Sunday, May 27, 2007 7:42 AM

Frisco:  Black and yellow/Black and gold.  And the red color scheme for the passenger E8's.  Not a fan of the later orange and white.

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Posted by Railfan1 on Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:26 AM

Either CSX's YN3 or KCS's "Southern Belle" scheme. Close call.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:21 AM
Any of the ATSF warbonnets- red, blue, or yellow.  Tweet.
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Posted by jasperofzeal on Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:06 AM
I like how they sometimes paint the demo engines, for example the Dash-9 and AC4400, when they first came out.  Also the gray looking CSX and BNSF engines.

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Posted by twcenterprises on Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:40 AM

TUXEDO's.

 

OK, I'm, a bit more partial to the green ones. 

 

But still, an F45 in a Tuxedo is a rather impressive sight, don't you think? 

 

Brad 

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Sunday, May 27, 2007 1:53 AM

The Sneaky Falls and Western's Early American Rust. This was probably the most famous rust motif ever found on American railroads.

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Posted by AggroJones on Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:55 PM

Southern Pacific Daylight

Southern Pacific Black Widow

Union Pacific Grayhound

Santa Fe Zebra stripes

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:19 PM
I like 'em ALL, they're each beautiful in their own way.  I sure wish there were as many Class I's today as there were 30 years ago...Sigh [sigh]

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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:44 PM

Uh..Thomas the Tank Engine!Laugh [(-D]

On a serious note:

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha

Great Northern Empire Builder

New York Central

Chicago and Northerwestern

Wisconsin and Southern

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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:37 PM

I think you might be able to guess what mine are.Big Smile [:D]

WC Maroon and Gold

SOO Maroon and Yellow

SOO "Hockey Stick"

SOO Candy Apple Red

BN Tiger Stripes

BN Cascade green

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:21 PM

I've got four:

SP Black Widow scheme on their freight diesels

SP "Daylight" scheme on their GS-series 4-8-4's and "Daylight" passenger trains.

Rio Grande "Grande Gold and Silver" on their passenger cars for THE ROYAL GORGE and PROSPECTOR

Rio Grande Orange and Black for their later big, hulking hood units.  Now those babies looked like they meant BUSINESS--and acted like it, too!

 

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Posted by Tracklayer on Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:13 PM

Southern Pacific black widow on F-7 A and B units... Too bad they never did a caboose in those colors.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:11 PM

The Pennsylvania Railroad's 5-stripe with Brunswick Green (Dark Green Locomotive Enamel):

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Posted by csmith9474 on Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:50 PM

What the heck, I'll bite. Some of my faves is the older Rock Island scheme that they used on the Fs (not sure of the name), the Espee's black widow, and again from the Espee, the Daylight paint.

I guess I really don't have a fave, but for some reason, those come to mind when I think about it.

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Whats your favorite railroad paint scheme?
Posted by unionpacificchuck on Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:09 PM
Mine would have to be either southerns green scheme or union pacifics greyhound

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