Why doesn't EMD get the CSX colors right?

[magicman710]

Is someone actually complaining about the shade of blue paint on a machine?

YES, somebody is. Paint schemes represent the company. Why else would they spend hunderes of thousands in repaints and paints?

[traisessive1]

Is someone actually complaining about the shade of blue paint on a machine?

[BaltACD]

When is comes to the color of equipment....lighting is everything.  Different light sources and angles will present different shdes of any color.

[wgnrr]

There was a recent picture on railpictures.net showing a line of CSX locos, and the EMD SD90 (? don't remember) had a faded yellow that looked like crap. All the GEs looked great.

Phil

[tree68]

Perception is everything.  I'm sure that CSX simply tells GE and EMD a paint number and away they go.

I'm also sure that if you coupled the three locomotives together, they'd look remarkably the same.  Your examples are shown in varying lighting and background situations.

Per a story in one of the modelling mags some years back, a fellow acquired a sample of the actual paint that his prototype of choice used.  He painted a model locomotive with it, and when he showed it to his fellow modellers, he was told in no uncertain terms that it was the wrong color.

[eolafan]

Speaking of bad paint jobs, you should try looking every day at the BNSF "peaches" with their faded orange paint that never did really look quite right:

[magicman710]

One thing that has always bothered me is that EMD always paints their CSX SD70ACe's with a light blue, instead of a dark blue, and this personally makes the engine look bad. The true CSX YN3 paint scheme, with the dark blue and deluxe gold, is the best looking paint scheme on the rails, IMHO... But I think that the light blue on the SD70ACe's really do bad to the YN3 and the SD70ACe itself, it just doesnt look right.

 

Is their a reason that EMD uses a light instead of dark blue?

 

SD70ACe side shot, clearly showing a light blue:

ES44DC side shot, painted at the GE factory, with the dark blue:

The only EMD's with dark blue, the ones painted at the CSX shops: