What do you think is the worst paint scheme?

[nanaimo73]

Did someone say pink ?
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[Anonymous]

Worst looking paint scheme in my opinion, alot of people hate me for this opinion, is the Santa Fe red & silver warbonnet. Blue & yellow is okay but red & silver is UGLY! To modifly NS Railfan's statement, if I were in charge of paint at BNSF, all of the red & silver units would be gone by the end of the year.
Ok, start the flaming!

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Did someone say pink?

I can contribute to that...

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cnw8835

Worst looking paint scheme in my opinion, alot of people hate me for this opinion, is the Santa Fe red & silver warbonnet. Blue & yellow is okay but red & silver is UGLY! To modifly NS Railfan's statement, if I were in charge of paint at BNSF, all of the red & silver units would be gone by the end of the year.
Ok, start the flaming!

The shadow of a cross is already falling on you,and I have a truckload of garlic on the side ,just to be on the safe side!

[Anonymous]

Another Nominie Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Phase 4. That was Dang Ugly

[Anonymous]

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[Murphy Siding]

yohandiesel: I'd be a little more inclined to understand your viewpoint, if I understood just what it is you're trying to say(and to who). Do you care to elaborate? I'm confused.

[Anonymous]

Murphy- I would presume he is "FLAMING" me. Read my post at the top of this page.

[Murphy Siding]

Okay, I see now. I was taking it as a reference to the post directly above.

[Green Bay Paddlers]

Anything by BNSF. I loved the original BN...

[Anonymous]

One of the problematic paint schemes was the Seaboard System Locomotive color scheme. The Ends of the Locomotives were supposed to be painted High-Visibility Colors. The tiny emblem did not work to enhance visibilty. After the Seaboard Merger, CSX repeated the problem for 5 more years. The Seaboard and CSX people did not consider grade crossing and switching visibility when they chose the color placement. Headlights are not enough on a stealthy gray locomotive, unless there are two pairs of Low-Mounted Flashing lights.

NYC and Penn Central basic flat black scheme was apparently meant to get no attention. The flat black did a great job at hiding all the dirt and details of the locomotives from a distance.

Canadian National and Illiniois Central Freight Cars that have White Lettering on Light Gray Backgrounds or Black Lettering on Dark Gray Backgrounds. They need more color contrast for markings like the logos and the road numbers.

The 1967 ILLINOIS CENTRAL scheme needed a Small Black stripe between the Orange and White. Orange and White must never touch because it is visually disturbing.

Andrew F.

[David_Telesha]

Votes for worst:

SF Warbonnet
UP Armor Yellow
Penn Central
SP Blackwidow
Early CR
MN G-Strings
Early CSX
NYC Cigar Band
BNSF

For starters anyway..

[waltersrails]

i almost agree with icmr

[Anonymous]

The curent amtrack paint

[mustanggt]

I'm not too fond of the MBTA commuter rail loco scheme - it looks like a reverse Atlantic coast line scheme. And they never get the purple right on models......

[Anonymous]

The Shade of Orange on Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Locomotives was way too dark. Thankfully they were merged totally out of that scheme in the early 1980's. Monochrome paint schemes do not visually work very well on Locomotives.

A one-color scheme appears to be economical on freight cars, but Locomotives need 3 contrasting colors since they are the power of the train.

Andrew F.

[Anonymous]

No hard feelings CNW8835 just that warrbonnet is a classic and one of my faverites[:)]

[CaptainChuck]

Guilford Paint Scheme is the worst ever. I wonder if the new Pan Am scheme will be good

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by james saunders

Penn Central teal

You are so right james! [^]
To paint a locomotive in teal green is to disrupt the natural order of things. [xx(]
Penn Central Green/teal is the worst, with CSX "Stealth" grey livery, a close second. The CSX units painted in "Stealth" just look unfinished... As if they ran out of paint before being able to complete the job.

[Anonymous]

BTW, I forgot to add the scheme used on Metra locos! [:(] Can't say that I'm too fond of it.

[emdgp92]

QUOTE: Originally posted by falconer
NYC and Penn Central basic flat black scheme was apparently meant to get no attention. The flat black did a great job at hiding all the dirt and details of the locomotives from a distance.

It was a cost-cutting measure, that when applied, didn't look bad when fresh. Yeah, it was kinda boring...but the same could be said for Conrail's solid blue with "can opener" logo. BTW, why is it that nobody is slamming the final years of PRR schemes? I've seen a few photos of units with no lettering at all...just keystones on the cab sides. At least PC's FL9s were colorful. Too bad the yellow paint usually faded to a nasty off-white. http://pc.smellycat.com/pics/equip/pc5024.jpg

Then there's this: http://pc.smellycat.com/pics/equip/pc754_712_1648dr.jpg

[tormadel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GSanchez

BTW, I forgot to add the scheme used on Metra locos! [:(] Can't say that I'm too fond of it.

I don't think I've ever seen anything "cool" about communter companies hehe.

[zgardner18]

There's something about he new BNSF SD70Ace's Orange that just kills me--You take MRL's Ace and compare it to BNSF and it is night and days difference on how good the Ace looks.

[stuart olson]

Rock Iland (moment of silence) moroon anything. but the wings were ok as well as bankrupt blue

favorites GN passenger steam and big sky blue, BN safty stripe, rio grande freight colors, milwaukee, CNW (particularly the fade yellow looks well aged but not rusty), and anything steam

[tormadel]

I kinda liked the maroon and yellow. Although the cherry red and yellow looks better. Blue and white is good too.

[SALfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by upchuck

[xx(]Anything in Pink[xx(]

There's always SAL purple!

(Ahem) That's ACL purple. Ugly enough to knock a buzzard off a gut-wagon. SAL's passenger livery was a funky dark green/cream/red stripe affair, not my favorite, but much better than ACL purple.