Least Favourite Colour Schemes

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005
Here's an awful thought

an orange and green war bonnet

[;)][:p]

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![:0][:0][V][xx(][xx(][:(][xx(][B)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fergus

Sorry Dougal
my intention was not to start a fight ,it was curiousity. Unfortunately we all know what curiousity does!

Yep, it kills the cat. Remember the "can housecats and model railroads mix?", that's where I thought "cat".

[lupo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

QUOTE: Originally posted by GASmith

Chessie. Totally unbefitting a coal hauler. I always wondered if Chessie units were drag units or just units in drag.....

As long as they had a nice scheme, I like them. No offense to Fergus or anything, but I think this topic is just asking for a fight because someone thinks one engine is ugly and someone else disagrees.

maybe could we all agree that color scheme in the picture I posted is ugly?? or are we gonna fight over that? any women arround? ( my ex and her sister loved that color scheme)

[Anonymous]

B & O 'Sunburst' in dark blue and yellow. The paint looked like it had been slapped on with a heavy-duty paint roller. The old black and gold stripes that followed the contours of the Fs and Es really looked nice, but that Sunburst just looked......well, wrong!

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GASmith

BNSF "Premium Heritage": Too gaudy and too "busy" looking, the "Empire Builder" from hades..... I like the ATSF scheme, I like the GN scheme, but NOT both on the same locomotive at the same time.

Chessie. Totally unbefitting a coal hauler. I always wondered if Chessie units were drag units or just units in drag.....

Here's an awful thought

an orange and green war bonnet

[;)][:p]

[Anonymous]

Sorry Dougal
my intention was not to start a fight ,it was curiousity. Unfortunately we all know what curiousity does!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GASmith

Chessie. Totally unbefitting a coal hauler. I always wondered if Chessie units were drag units or just units in drag.....

As long as they had a nice scheme, I like them. No offense to Fergus or anything, but I think this topic is just asking for a fight because someone thinks one engine is ugly and someone else disagrees.

[Anonymous]

BNSF--they should have stuck with the red and silver Warbonnet.

[Anonymous]

New Havens last livery, McGinnis, uggghhh

[Anonymous]

BNSF "Premium Heritage": Too gaudy and too "busy" looking, the "Empire Builder" from hades..... I like the ATSF scheme, I like the GN scheme, but NOT both on the same locomotive at the same time.

Chessie. Totally unbefitting a coal hauler. I always wondered if Chessie units were drag units or just units in drag.....

[Anonymous]

You bet, dougal. NS has a lot of high-nosed GPs down in the yard but I mostly see big, wide nosed CSX diesels and CP Rail SD40-2s.

[Anonymous]

And you aren't stuck with them! [;)]

As I always say, "your least favorite railroad is usualy the one closest to you".

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

QUOTE: Originally posted by Train-Master

Ugliest color scheme I have seen to date is BNSF.

BNSF is the best Class 1 in many ways:
Best paint
Best motive power variety
Best everything else

I hope they at least try to buy NS

I agree, down with Norfolk Southern! I hope BNSF or UP or something eats them up.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Train-Master

Ugliest color scheme I have seen to date is BNSF.

BNSF is the best Class 1 in many ways:
Best paint
Best motive power variety
Best everything else

I hope they at least try to buy NS

[Anonymous]

What could be worse?

PLAID!!!

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo

what do you think about this color scheme:

no joke it was deliverd to the dutch railways like this

Maybe if we painted our trains that color we'de have less crossing accidents..cause no one would want to get anywhere near one of them..[(-D]

[Big_Boy_4005]

It almost reminds me of Lionel's "Girls Train" set. It came with a pink engine, and pastel colored freight cars. It was so ugly that nobody wanted them, not even the girls. I recently saw one on eBay that had been bid up over $5000, they are very rare today, because nobody wanted them back then![:)]

[lupo]

what do you think about this color scheme:

no joke it was deliverd to the dutch railways like this

[Anonymous]

Ugliest color scheme I have seen to date is BNSF.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

First off, it's jade green if I'm correct....

What ever. You know what I mean. [}:)][}:)][;)]

[CP5415]

GTW, CV, DW&P Blue & red are digusting
I've never liked CN since the 50's green
Guilford's paint scheme

Gordon

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45

Wisconsin Central: Scheme is nice, but the colors don't really "me***ogether well".

I agree with Lupo: The Florida "Tri-Rail" commuter line service from West Palm Beach to Miami. White, Orange and Green: Blah!

Strange. When I rode the Tri-rail, it was blue, green, and red with silver as the primary. It was beautiful.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

You're right. SP never had clean diesel. I never saw an SP after 1960 washed

You're right, SP's were always grimy or dusty, but hey, they worked out west in the boon docks.[:D][;)]

[Anonymous]

SP makes me wanna chuck and upchuck all at the same time.

[Anonymous]

I don't like any of the "UGLY" ones!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Avondaleguy

I've always hated the Grand Trunk's blue and red, and I've always admired the black engines of Norfolk & Western and Norfolk Southern. I prefer the older N&W schemes with yellow (dulux gold) lettering, and I think the reason is that they have an elegant simplicity; they are nothing more than what they need to be, no pretention, and the black pays a sort of homage to the high levels of achievement N&W made in regards to steam locomotive design and construction. Had the economics not demanded it, the paint scheme seems to say, these engines would still be simple articulateds...

I'm increasingly favoring the N&W blue scheme, which is appropriate for my 1971 period, but in general I dislike blue as an overall body color. Conrail is down there near the bottom of my list. I don't mind it when it is a darker blue (as on N&W, or on B&O units), but when I think of any of the other light-blue schemes I rate them low.

Also, white is just wrong; the Lehigh Valley snowbirds are only redeemed by their black roofs.

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!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

GT red and blue.
PC greenish blue.

First off, it's jade green if I'm correct, second, GT has the colors of my model railroad, third, I hae a friend who models modern Penn Central with a jade green lightning stripe added to the scheme (on widecabs) and he would hate to see what you're saying about PC.

[AggroJones]

GT red and blue.
PC greenish blue.

[CNW-400]

ICG had a horrible paint job, dirty orange with the hugh initials running together.

I think whoever comes up with some of these paint schemes never thinks about what it will look like once it's been left outside! Some of the colors mentioned looked okay fresh out of the barn, but were hideous when they got dirty.

Mark

[sparkingbolt]

SOO..White with red? not only do models never look real, the real thing never looks real.