Favorite RR paint scheme

[Anonymous]

Ahh, Yes Those lightning stripes look grand!

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BRAKIE

To my mind R.J.Corman's locomotives has to be among the best color scheme I seen in may a day..Of course the C&O Blue and Yellow is tops for me.

The blue & yellow may have been a tad dull for some people,but for me it was one of the best sights to see. The B & O Capitol,Sunburst is very good also.[:)]

r.j.Cormnan's paint scheme is cool also. Living in the Louisville area, I get a chance to see them once in awhile.[:)]

And for info's sake, all my loco's on the mr are painted dark blue,with yellow cabs.[:)]

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005

I like a bunch of the choices on the list, and a bunch of others not listed, but I chose the orange and maroon of the Milwaukee Road as my favorite!

Here's one that I love, but I think it is more like MR's 75th Anniversary car, and a one of a kind paint job. Does anyone know how many were done?



By the way, the other side is a standard CN gray with red.

That sir,is a cool paint job. Did you do that one yourself?
One of my pride and joys,is a 70 ton covered hopper(with open sides) built by ACF,
sub-leased to Boraxo,(GACX) I model in the 1950-1960 era.[:)]

[Anonymous]

You forgot the BEST one.......B&O grey & blue! What a classy scheme.

Also a good bet...........Reading F/FP/FA units in black with green!

Gotta mention the best looking GP ever....N&W Redbirds! Yeah!!!!

Roger

[RedLeader]

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!

[slotracer]

EL-DL&W......colorful but still "railroadlike" looked good dirty and clean, great in summer, winter and especially fall.

[randybc2003]

I spent a formative amount of my childhood in Alaska.

Alaska Railroad: A dark royal blue body, w/ gold window stripe. Same colors as the State flag. Check out :

http://www.alaskarails.org
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/pass-retired/WG-5-seward.html
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/pass-retired/TS-diner-10.html

This pattern is the "old" scheme. I remember when the cars said DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR on their letterboards. "modern" one has the body/stripe reversed. Oh well, it too doesn't look too bad!

http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/JC-200.jpg

Right behind this: Scarlet & Silver WARBONET
[C):-)]

[AltonFan]

It has to be the Alton-GM&O red, maroon, and gold scheme. Dittos for the Chicago Great Western's red and maroon.

[Anonymous]

MoPac Blue...That's the way it is for me!!

[CBQ_Guy]

Well I shouldn't be admitting this but I voted for the Red Warbonnet scheme. There's just something inside me that reacts whenever I see a passenger train of old in this paint scheme and makes my little ol' heart go pitter patter.

[jfugate]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith


Least favorite:

SP grey/red and covered in grime scheme

Well, you won't have to endure the SP scheme much longer. Now it will be armour yellow and grey covered in grime ... [;)]

[Anonymous]

#1 ACL Purple and Silver
#2 FEC Red & Yellow
#3 SAL Citrus
#4 D&H Blue/Gray
#5 B&O Blue and Gray
#6 LV Snowbird

[Anonymous]

My personal favorite is the Reading RR Beeline Service Scheme. Yellow and Green with a Bee on the side. Of the Nationals I would have to go with the Chessie. If you asked me this 25 years ago A Red White and Blue SCL Uboat would have been THE answer. Dave

[ozzy01]

My favorite is Chessie followed by SF Warbonnet , SR Tuxedo , UP and EL

[ckape]

My #1 BNSF Heritage, but there's a few other ones I like that weren't listed: BN Executive and CSX Bright Future.

And just to rile people up a bit, I might as well mention that about the only scheme I find more boring than the Union Pacific's are the Norfolk Southern schemes.

[Bill H.]

B&O (Blue/Gray)

[Anonymous]

SP Lark (sadly only on the pass. cars)
SP Black Widow
SP Daylight
NYC lightning
That nifty one I designed for my short line

-dave

[Anonymous]

Theres not many i don't like as long as there on trains.

[icmr]

Illinois Central's Death Star scheme.



ICMR

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[Anonymous]

#1 BNSF H3
#2 IC death star
#3 IC white/ orange
#4 SF or BNSF warbonnet

[Anonymous]

# 1 Wabash Bluebirds
# 2 NKP Bluebirds
# 3 DTI Orange & Black
# 4 NKP Freight Scheme
# 5 PRR Passenger 5 Stripe

Rick

[Soo Line fan]

SOO LINE white and red.

Jim

[David_Telesha]

Well wouldn't you know it but...

New Haven paint schemes. All of them except the Alpert scheme really. I love the NH's pinstriped schemes. People don't know about them all.

The NH had their own fine pinstripe schemes sort of like the PRR's with Pullman Green/Gold, Hunter & Gold, and Hunter & Pearl Gray. Not to mention the Warm Orange w/Silver Gray pinstripes and 1/3 top Hunter. These all had narrow stripes of the same width.

Those early schemes were the best - especially the variations depending on the locomotive - one for the EP-4 had a small script herald on each door.

The early electrics had a plain scheme of Pullman Green with NEW HAVEN spelled out in Gold - this was simple but classy and quite pleasing to the eye on the boxcabs.

Also there's the typical NH striped scheme with wide and narrow stripes. I like this one a lot too - I like the Pullman Green & Gold better than the #401 Green and yellow version.

The McGinnis (red-orange/white/black) schemes have grown on me. I like the original with the white on the bottom. But the revised with the red-orange on the bottom is neat too - it looked just as well, and good on the FL-9's.

The Alpert scheme (simplified McGinnis) I don't care for - this is the scheme with 2/3 black carbody, a little red-orange on the bottom 1/3 and nose and small Scotchlite NH's.

The 1960's "Trustee" scheme I like a lot. This is the scheme on the EF-4 (E33), U25 and C425 that has three wide white stripes and a large single color NH. On the EF-4 the body color was orange with a black NH but on the diesels it was black with an orange NH - nice.

Before the diesels the I-5 class 4-6-4 Hudsons had two very classy schemes - one with a NYNH&H Script herald on the tender and one with NEW HAVEN spelled out. There was striping on the tender and loco too, and there were small script heralds on the side of the shrouding on the steps on the front side of the loco too. I like the tender with New Haven spelled out best. Great scheme.

I would have to say I like the PRR's schemes too. Especially the pinstriped, striped, and 1950's schemes.

I also love the NYC's lightening stripes and cigar band schemes.

Boston and Maine's Minuteman scheme of Maroon and Gold is nice too.

There's other old ones I like I can't think of right now - I could go through a book and pick out a ton of them!!!!!

More modern, I like Conrail (I grew up with it), CSX YN3 "Dark Future", Amtrak Phase 3 and Phase 5, Metro-North's red/blue/silver, Providence and Worcester's current scheme and a few others.

[DavidJ611]

I'm an N&W man, myself, and yup, I dig the spartan black-and-white look but my favorite has a racy Tuscan Red stripe w/ Dulux Gold pinstriping and lettering. [^]

However (although I'm not especially a Milwaukee Road fan), I absolutely LOVE their Maroon & Orange. [Must be the Hokie in me!!! [:D]]

-Dave

[nbrodar]

D&H Lighting Stripe. Followed by EL's Maroon and Gray.

Nick

[james saunders]

apart from The PACIFIC AYER & ATLANTIC BLUE/ORANGE i like the SF switcher Blue with yellow Pin Stripe and the Santa Fe Zebra Stripe, i also like the BN GP40s with the white trim around the front of the cab.

OZJIM

[Anonymous]

I voted other, couldn't pick just one.

[DALCruiser]

Boy, WOW, hard decision! I really like the SP Daylight, but right there next to it has to be the SF War Bonnet. Both are classic paint designs and beautiful streaking down the tracks. [;)]

Dave

[jrbernier]

Rocket Island 'Rocket' paint scheme - Now that is how God and EMD intended a passenger engine to look! Of course, the basic ATSF 'War Bonnet' has got to be the classic(I had the Lionel F3 AA set as a kid).

Jim Bernier

[sleeper33]

My favourite livery has to be the santa fe blue and yellow freight it's eyecatching and basic at the same time but also the warbonnet is catchy with the combo of red and silver very in your face[:D]