Your opinion on new CSX colour scheme

[Anonymous]

AntonioFP45 I think you're onto something!

Is the new paint scheme a sign of hard times ahead for CSX? Maybe "Dark Future" isn't such a bad name..........

[kenneo]

The new paint is better than the current. But ever since Chessie changed from its three color scheme, it's all been ot so good.

[Anonymous]

Well, I like it - rthe gray seems too fussy for my taste - however, as my freinds on the net have reported the railroads are not about pretty colours and pleasing railfans. The big question is - Is it cheaper and does it protect the valuable equipment from rust whilst being recognisable as CSX.

Whatever,[:)] I like it

[locomutt]

Blue looks better to me. I don't care much for anything painted grey: Too depressing.

Besides, BLUE is my FAVORITE color[8D] (GO BIG BLUE: University of Kentucky Basketball all the way)

cherokee woman

[dekemd]

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(CR blue was great, though)

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I loved the paint scheme on the Conrail 70 and 80 Macs. Unfortunately CSX is repainting the 80macs. 801 is in "bright future. 0804,800, 808, and 812 are in dark future/blue angel/whatever you call it.

Derrick

[Nora]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dekemd

I loved the paint scheme on the Conrail 70 and 80 Macs.

If you mean the one that has a mostly white front, I love that one too. On Wednesday I saw four of the SD80MACs coming into the yard all together (no train just engines). I see one or two of them there every now and again but have never seen 4 at once before, and I can spot them a mile away with all the blue and white!

--Nora

[rf16a]

It's ok. Looks like the C+O.
I do like the old scheme better.

[Anonymous]

It looks cool CSX has outdone themselves again but the old CHESSIE scheme was much better[:)]

[Anonymous]

I always felt that the Chessie paint was a vary 70's scheme, but after looking at some slides of my Dads from Pre-CSX (1979 - 1980 era) in Sand Patch and Paw Paw, WV ( You know there arre two Paw Paw, WV no joke[?]) The paint scheme isnt that bad, sorta like it[;)]
-justin

[coborn35]

Here is a pic of the CSXT Dark Future scheme:http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=94150

[csxengineer98]

what you people dont know....or fail to realize is....that this "new" paint idea came from the shops in huntington WV....the shop people came up with it... and it was aggreed on by managment as the "new" look... now knowing that shop people came up with it...it might have been some kind of contest that shop people where involved in...and this was the idea what won...who knows what the other ideas where...if infact it was a contest... althow the main reason it was adopted as the "new" scheme was cost....a saveings of $600 per unit in painting costs verses the old scheme...and when you own a fleet of some 3000 or what ever it is units that csx infacts owns...thats a saveings of 1,800,000 in paint expences alone...and a saveings of that size always looks good to the bottom line...
also i use the term "new" becouse its been around for about 3 years now...
csx engineer

[Anonymous]

I like it, I look at it like this CSX is combination of rail companies that it has merged with but now its one company. They will probly never revert to the old logos or paint but that is and will always be the case. As it was stated somewhere else in the forums they answer to the stock holders at the end of the day weather I like it or not.[2c]