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Posted by Junctionfan on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 4:51 PM
NS primer units
Andrew
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 4:28 PM
Early Conrail,which was all black with only a tiny CR on the side.
Chessie System scheme wouln't win any beauty contest.
Neither would Indiana& Ohio's curcus scheme.
Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool.
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Posted by M636C on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 4:25 PM
The worst has to be the early Conrail patch painted ex PC locomotives which were just black and dirty, with white numbers, and a small stencilled CR the size of the numbers.

You'd have start early in the morning to think up a worse scheme than that!

Peter
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ugly paint schemes
Posted by kolechovski on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 4:20 PM
Which railroad(s) do you think have the worst paint schemes? I number 2 pick is NS, with its plain black and white locos, and the worst is the Union Pacific with the all-yellow stuff. I considered it a huge improvement just with them adding the flags and eagles to it, though it's still ugly. What do you guys think?

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