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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal Sorry, I don't think anyone has ever said anything this close to the exact opposite of my opinion. I liked Grand Trunk's paint scheme so much I made it the colors of my model railroad. I hate black diesels, I hate black diesels, I hate black diesels. That's unfair, you say you like B&O blue but you don't like Conrail blue!! I do think N&W blue is nice, but B&O is unacceptable. Solid blue, cars better look out, you'll never know when the trains coming, paint scheme. LEHIGH VALLEY ROCKS!!!!!!!! [/quote] If anybody gives me equipment lettered for Conrail, LV, or GTW on my upcoming birthday, then, I'll know where to send them on! [;)] I'm rather sensitive to the particular hues of blue, and the B&O blue is definitely different from Conrail's. I'm a professional designer, paid for my graphic skills, by the way. I just can't stomach the super-saturated bright blues, they just seem artificial (nature doesn't produce too many "smurf-blue" things, so there's a psychological reaction to a Conrail blue that is different from other colors). Intense blue conveys, to me, a show-off-ishness, it is trying (too hard in my opinion) to impress. That's why I've liked black so much, because it does just the opposite; it's the ultimate of understatement, it tries *not* to impress. By doing so, it conveys to me an inner confidence. N&W knew it did not need to impress because so much of its revenue came from online coal mines, captive service which was unlikely to go to a competitor, and it wasn't until after merging both Wabash and Nickle Plate in 1964 that N&W had to compete for midwest traffic; that was when their blue ("strive to impress" color) scheme came about. Perhaps our color preferences say a lot more about our own personalities than we realize. I'm definitely the type to shy away from, or not care much about, accolades, not caring what others think about me.
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