Seventies Paint Scheme

[TheS.P.caboose]

I liked the "Cascade Green" scheme used by BN.[^]

[Anonymous]

My Fav is the Maine Central RR Harvest Gold and Pine Green
Least Fav are Warbonnets

[Chiefted]

To quote others here....here kitty kitty kitty

Chessie

[Anonymous]

MY name is Andrew Gregory,my favorite paint scheme of the 70's is Chessie System and the early 70's Western Maryland paint scheme. I'm from***berland,MD. So, in the 70's and first part of the 80's I saw alot Chessie,B&O.C&O ,WM and old Amtrak scheme. Until,today the CSX yellow nose 3 paint scheme is the best and Amtrak's Phase 5,paint scheme. I,also work for Amtrak ! But,I'm a Western Maryland RWY bluff.I model,WM,CSX every paint scheme,Amtrak every paint scheme,also the cute Chessie.But,also a little B&O! I foregot,about R,F&P.

[fievel]

It was a tough call, but I pick Chessie System over Burlington Northern's Green
Machines! [8D] [:P] [:)]

[Anonymous]

Another vote for the Chessie....it's the cats meoww!!

[Anonymous]

i like the *** cat scheme..hear kiyyt-kitty?

and UP's one two!


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[Anonymous]

From the "Why Change a Good Thing Department" Southern RR Green

[Anonymous]

Chessie, Chessie and more Chessie. You just can't beat the Vermillion.

[daveklepper]

Don't forget the two-tone red of the GM&O-up to Amtrak, the KCS scheme still seen.

[Anonymous]

i would have to say BN, then chessie, and 3rd Penn Central

[Mike4321]

Southern Steam before Norfolk-Green,Red cab & gold lettering also 4501 steamer is one of the most attractive of the smaller engines still running today. Chessie is probably better known & having a kitty as your corporate image sure dosen't hurt anything.

[Anonymous]

Naturally CHESSIE and tomorrow I paint my white cat with the colorful paint scheme of a CHESSIE SD. Hope she will survive...

Werner from old Europe

[Johniacono]

Chessie System is the best by far. Especially the Ross Rolan steam engine painted in Chessie colors. However, the B7O royal blue is my all time choice.

[espeefoamer]

I think the Chessie scheme looks like it was invented by Tyco.In fact,the first time I saw that logo was in a Tyco train set.

[coborn35]

My vote would have to be for Chessie but not like most of your votes. I vote for the only Chessie steam engine. ( I think ) It had dark red with yellow and of course, here kitty kitty[:D]

[Anonymous]

Ever since about 1974 when I had a Tyco Alco C-630 in the Delaware & Hudson lightning scheme and got rid of it by mistake, I lived with a lifetime of regret until 2002 when I got an Athearn GP38-2 in the same scheme. Now I'm happy again. [:D]

[MontRailLink]

I liked the Bicentennial paint jobs--definitely '70's' but probably doesn't count as a rail line.

[pocovalley]

I agree with Chessie, but I think a very close second would be the D&H PA's.

[floh2]

Absolutely my first choice:
CPRail Action Red with "candy stripes" and Multimark logo ("Pacman").
Looked especially great on the F's.

[NW_611]

In the "color" category, there's no other possible answer than that of the Chessie System. It's an utterly beautiful scheme, and precious little can stand against it in the realm of the "other" railroad liveries. Perhaps only that surreal scheme developed under Patrick B. McGinnis at the New Haven can come close to it in sheer visual appeal. I just wi***hat more had been said about the Chessie System and its livery.

But enough of the colorful cousin that fell prey to a jumble of quasi-meaningless letters. Let us consider the perfect fusion of form and function, the black and white livery. The Penn Central Transportation Company's wrongly-derided livery is eminently attractive, with its stark beauty and sleek modernity, and as such gets my nod for "favorite livery of the 1970s".* Font, herald, and artistic design just click like few other liveries have, at least from my perspective. Not even Norfolk Southern's various attempts in recent years can match the austere cool of the Penn Central's black-and-white.

Hats off to Trains for a solidly enjoyable issue. "The Conrail Bunch" is really funny.

* Had Jack Fishwick been willing to pay for the flanks of his locomotives to say, "NORFOLK AND WESTERN" in some sort of attractive font, perhaps I would have had a harder time setting "Fishwick Black" in the second place.

[JoeUmp]

My favorite has to be the old Santa Fe War Bonnett. Grante it wasn't used much after Amtrak came into being, but it was there.

[mloik]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Matt1950

However, my favorite(s) from the 70s were the D&RGW orange and black and the WP Orange and Silver. Both photographed well, especially in low sun.

Matt

Finally! Someone with some taste over all that eastern RR paint-scheme nonsense!

They may have photographed well, but don't forget that WP and DRGW looked great in contrast to the snow.

[Anonymous]

I miss the Southern black tuxedo so much, I've made it the theme of my HO layout. Tell me you didn't get goosebumps when those freights thundered by with those high-hoods running long end first, and that nathan P-5 greeting you.

[enr2099]

BC Rail/PGE's early two tone green has to be the best!!

[Mark300]

My top favorites...
1. The Chessie scheme.
2. The WM's circus scheme on their 'F' units
3. Some of the schemes such as The Eire Lackawanna, Lehigh, Reading that were really late 60's.
4. the Rock Island's 'The Rock'......nice geometric figure topping that 'R."

My least favorites...
1. PennCentral's basic cruddy black with the little letters (Compare it with NS's similar treatment today but NS uses a real logo, stripes and attempts to work with the locomotive's lines and styling. The Illinois Central did a much better job too with their white on black. The PennCentral was a nightmare on so many levels.).
2. Anything sporting diagonal stripes! Ugh!.....as if to say,'Not only am I dangerous....but I'm Ugly too!

Mark

[gabe]

I really liked the ICG (actually started as IC) Orange White & Black as my favorite (though I was born in 1975 and can barely remember seeing trains in this color.

Top four:

1. ICG's orange white and Black
2. Southern's Cresent
3. Chessie
4. Illinois Terminal (who ever brought that one up, great call)

Bottom:

1. The red white and blue centenial locomotives. Apparently, I am the only one who finds them ugly, but I think they are the worst I have ever seen (although the new BNSF is giving it stiff competition).

2. Penn Central. Just looking at that paint job made you think that every train passing was a funeral forboding the end of railroading.

A poster formerly known as "Gabe."

[Anonymous]

Worst (IMO): PC teal, Rock Island "bankruptcy blues," Amtrak, Erie-Lackawana, a few others.
Not so favorite: Most others. I actually think that most '70's schemes were very drab and ugly.
Favorite: Chessie, BN, and some others. I prefer 50's and 60's schemes.

P. S. Good idea for a thread!

[cnw1995]

Chicago and North Western. A continuing 'classic' scheme ( in my opinion) during this era, even (since it was the 70s) when the yellow weathered in some instances to be almost white and the green to be almost black. My only experience with PC scheme was seeing the mating worms logo on rust.