What the heck, I'll bite. Some of my faves is the older Rock Island scheme that they used on the Fs (not sure of the name), the Espee's black widow, and again from the Espee, the Daylight paint.
I guess I really don't have a fave, but for some reason, those come to mind when I think about it.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's 5-stripe with Brunswick Green (Dark Green Locomotive Enamel):
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Southern Pacific black widow on F-7 A and B units... Too bad they never did a caboose in those colors.
Tracklayer
I've got four:
SP Black Widow scheme on their freight diesels
SP "Daylight" scheme on their GS-series 4-8-4's and "Daylight" passenger trains.
Rio Grande "Grande Gold and Silver" on their passenger cars for THE ROYAL GORGE and PROSPECTOR
Rio Grande Orange and Black for their later big, hulking hood units. Now those babies looked like they meant BUSINESS--and acted like it, too!
Tom
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I think you might be able to guess what mine are.
WC Maroon and Gold
SOO Maroon and Yellow
SOO "Hockey Stick"
SOO Candy Apple Red
BN Tiger Stripes
BN Cascade green
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Uh..Thomas the Tank Engine!
On a serious note:
Milwaukee Road Hiawatha
Great Northern Empire Builder
New York Central
Chicago and Northerwestern
Wisconsin and Southern
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Southern Pacific Daylight
Southern Pacific Black Widow
Union Pacific Grayhound
Santa Fe Zebra stripes
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TUXEDO's.
OK, I'm, a bit more partial to the green ones.
But still, an F45 in a Tuxedo is a rather impressive sight, don't you think?
Brad
EMD - Every Model Different
ALCO - Always Leaking Coolant and Oil
CSX - Coal Spilling eXperts
TONY
"If we never take the time, how can we ever have the time." - Merovingian (Matrix Reloaded)
Either CSX's YN3 or KCS's "Southern Belle" scheme. Close call.
Frisco: Black and yellow/Black and gold. And the red color scheme for the passenger E8's. Not a fan of the later orange and white.
Jim
Gotta be a tux.
THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH!
UP of course!!
Armor yellow/gray
Two tone gray
Armor yellow/brown (M100 etc)
Chinese Red and Grey
Silver E Units
Blackbird scheme (Balck and Grey)
Honorable mention to Wabash (not the dip scheme) and Rock Island Rocket scheme
Rick
Same boat, there are alot of schemes that I like, but 3 that stand out. (Not includeing my own :D)
Northern Pacific, just the nice belnding of colors and the pattern they laid out.
Western Pacific. Somethign ab out the orange and silver just screams to me.
Oh, I almost hate to admit it, but I love the new BNSF paint scheme too.
Best Regards, Big John
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ok, what the heck, mine would be BNSF Heritage II or the Premium Heritage.
If anyone wants an example of this, I am hapy to post one. It just amazed me the other week when I was going to bid on a coupe of BNSG AC4400Cw's in H2 and asked the guy who obviously a BNSF fan and then he got cranky because he said he had no idea what the Heritage II looks like and if I want them I better speak English. So obviously I ain't interested in speaking with this guy anymore.
Canadian Pacific - Maroon and Grey and Yellow
Canadian National - Light Green/Dark Green and Yellow
My two favorites, the paint schemes are gone now unfortunately, do not care for the replacement colours.
Mine would be:
Southern Pacific Black Widow and Bloody Nose
Western Pacific
Devner, Rio Grande and Western
and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
CSX-bc2 and yn3 and UP Bush 4141.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=154976
Well, here are a few of my favorites.
I've always thought that SD40-2s looked great in L&N's grey and yellow paint.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=69718
I also like L&N's dark blue with yellow stripes scheme.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=5386
CSX's "Dark Future" (also known as YN3) paint is also one of my favorites.
-Brandon
The SOO LINE in the 1960's and 1970's.
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Andrew Falconer wrote: The SOO LINE in the 1960's and 1970's.
That would be the White and Red "Wing"(Curved red going up to the top of the cab) and the "Hockey Stick".
The Central Of Georgia.
MilwaukeeRoad wrote: Uh..Thomas the Tank Engine!On a serious note:Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Great Northern Empire BuilderNew York CentralChicago and NortherwesternWisconsin and Southern
And it lives in me too.
For me I only have one and it's the Milwaukee road 1948 Olympian Hiawatha. Plus the Milwaukee's Twin Cities Hiawathas. Some pretty colorful trains indeed.
You just can't beat the Erie builts.
Pic from: http://www.trainweb.org/hiawatha/
Happy railroading
James
Passenger, NP Lowery, Fec, GMO.
Freight, BN Heritage , Heritage II, NP canoe
Special mention, SP Daylight