csxengineer98 wrote: Andrew Falconer wrote:If the foamers do not want crew members in the photos then they should photograph model trains. The photographs are more interesting if there are crew members in the photos and the doors of the locomotives are open occasionally.Andrewlast time i checked they wherent all RCO yet.. it still takes a crew...as far as being verbaly abused.. i was one time by a foamer that wanted to come into the cab and take a look around after he said he worked for GE at one time and i said nope..cant do it..sorry..he got hostel and felt it was "his right" to come in and look at what "his" company had produced... this was after he followed me and my conductor around a grossery store asking questions while we stopped and got some lunch to take on the road....csx engineer
Andrew Falconer wrote:If the foamers do not want crew members in the photos then they should photograph model trains. The photographs are more interesting if there are crew members in the photos and the doors of the locomotives are open occasionally.Andrew
If the foamers do not want crew members in the photos then they should photograph model trains.
The photographs are more interesting if there are crew members in the photos and the doors of the locomotives are open occasionally.
Andrew
as far as being verbaly abused.. i was one time by a foamer that wanted to come into the cab and take a look around after he said he worked for GE at one time and i said nope..cant do it..sorry..he got hostel and felt it was "his right" to come in and look at what "his" company had produced... this was after he followed me and my conductor around a grossery store asking questions while we stopped and got some lunch to take on the road....
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What's RCO. Also, what ended up happening to the "stalker" railfan.
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KBCpresident wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: Andrew Falconer wrote:If the foamers do not want crew members in the photos then they should photograph model trains. The photographs are more interesting if there are crew members in the photos and the doors of the locomotives are open occasionally.Andrewlast time i checked they wherent all RCO yet.. it still takes a crew...as far as being verbaly abused.. i was one time by a foamer that wanted to come into the cab and take a look around after he said he worked for GE at one time and i said nope..cant do it..sorry..he got hostel and felt it was "his right" to come in and look at what "his" company had produced... this was after he followed me and my conductor around a grossery store asking questions while we stopped and got some lunch to take on the road....csx engineer What's RCO. Also, what ended up happening to the "stalker" railfan.
as for the "stalker" as you say..we left him standing in the parking lot next to the tracks verbaly abuseing us as we pulled away to take sideing and eat our lunch
Lyon_Wonder wrote: I found that KCS too had a bicentennial loco. This has got to be the worst special paint job of all time. KCS SD40-2 #642 makes BNSF 9647 “vomit bonnet” look like a work of genius. From looking at the photo, KCS's bicentennial paint job looked very amateurish. I doubt this is on anyone’s list of best looking locos, and apparantly KCS had 2 of these. Even KCS’s then-normal white scheme looked better than this. Other railroads took good care in their bicentennial schemes, but not KCS IMO.
I found that KCS too had a bicentennial loco. This has got to be the worst special paint job of all time. KCS SD40-2 #642 makes BNSF 9647 “vomit bonnet” look like a work of genius. From looking at the photo, KCS's bicentennial paint job looked very amateurish. I doubt this is on anyone’s list of best looking locos, and apparantly KCS had 2 of these. Even KCS’s then-normal white scheme looked better than this. Other railroads took good care in their bicentennial schemes, but not KCS IMO.
You know, I don't usually say this about "ugly" paint schemes, (I like the "Barfbonnet", for instance) but this one is UGLY, UGLY, UGLY. The ironic thing is, it could have looked good. You know what turns it off? All those random colors on the cab. Imagine it if the whole engine was red, white and blue stripes (but only one shade of blue)-- not that bad. Then put the road numbers on the side with the railroad name on the side or something, and it would have looked pretty good. I can't believe this was the winner. Really, this engine looks more like barf than the Barfbonnet.
The pattern is not the problem. The problem is the mix of colors. Too many colors.
Please, if somebody has the photographic software, correct it so the scheme is mostly Bright Red, Bright Blue, Bright White, with Bright Yellow Highlights.
It would go from ugly to sharp, when processed for colors.
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Andrew Falconer wrote: The pattern is not the problem. The problem is the mix of colors. Too many colors.
Hence my comment about using all the crayons in the box.
I'm not that good with Photoshop yet, but if I get the time...
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It doesn't look like a bicentennial engine, it looks like someone in the shop felt like throwing every color they had available somewhere on it! I like colorful paint schemes but this is a little overboard with colors! I'll take EJ&E's bicentennial engine over this "bicentennial" engine.
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