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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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
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wgnrr wrote: 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. Right when I read the thread subject, that is the EXACT loco that I thought of. Gosh it's ugly, but you have to love it!Phil
Right when I read the thread subject, that is the EXACT loco that I thought of. Gosh it's ugly, but you have to love it!
Phil
chad thomas wrote: eolafan wrote: coborn35 wrote: Modelcar wrote: .....Wonder if the engineer wore a false face when running that unit...?Why? Most foamers dont give a **** about the crew anyway. Theyd probably **** thier pants bcause the engineer got in the way... What did he say????? Homer Simpson voice "Dooh"
eolafan wrote: coborn35 wrote: Modelcar wrote: .....Wonder if the engineer wore a false face when running that unit...?Why? Most foamers dont give a **** about the crew anyway. Theyd probably **** thier pants bcause the engineer got in the way... What did he say?????
coborn35 wrote: Modelcar wrote: .....Wonder if the engineer wore a false face when running that unit...?Why? Most foamers dont give a **** about the crew anyway. Theyd probably **** thier pants bcause the engineer got in the way...
Modelcar wrote: .....Wonder if the engineer wore a false face when running that unit...?
.....Wonder if the engineer wore a false face when running that unit...?
Why? Most foamers dont give a **** about the crew anyway. Theyd probably **** thier pants bcause the engineer got in the way...
What did he say?????
Homer Simpson voice "Dooh"
I believe you mean "Doh!" ;D
jeffhergert wrote: Ted Marshall wrote:I vote to allow the graffiti vandals to have their way with this one. Anything's better that that. Something tells me, though, that even they wouldn't want anything to do with this ugly beast.To me, it looks like the graffiti vandals already had their way with it. If this is the winner, I'd like to see what the losing entries looked like.The RI's Bicentennial scheme was also from a contest, IIRC. At least the official one on the E-8, not the accidental one on a wreck repair.Jeff
Ted Marshall wrote:I vote to allow the graffiti vandals to have their way with this one. Anything's better that that. Something tells me, though, that even they wouldn't want anything to do with this ugly beast.
To me, it looks like the graffiti vandals already had their way with it.
If this is the winner, I'd like to see what the losing entries looked like.
The RI's Bicentennial scheme was also from a contest, IIRC. At least the official one on the E-8, not the accidental one on a wreck repair.
Jeff
It was probably a random drawing... I hope it was.
Mookie wrote: eolafan wrote: coborn35 wrote: Modelcar wrote: .....Wonder if the engineer wore a false face when running that unit...?Why? Most foamers dont give a **** about the crew anyway. Theyd probably **** thier pants bcause the engineer got in the way... What did he say?????He said railfans would be very proud to shake the hands of any crew lucky enough to be on this locomotive!
OK, I'll second that sentiment.
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Actually I think its one of the coolest bicentennial schemes because it was designed by CHILDREN not some big PR firm someplace. You really have to give the KCS credit for going to the trouble to let kids design a paint scheme. It shows real creativity. Its probably more representative of the spirit of America than all the other bicentennial schemes put together.
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No, this was a test of bar codes for remote equipment technology, 1976 scanner technology was undergoing some serious development.
David Gunn, SEPTA General Manager in the late 1970's early 1980's spoke at one of my railfan clubs. He had told management that he wanted to reduce the number of different paint schemes, so no new schemes without his approval. He said one day he was upset because he saw a Broad St subway car in what he thought was a new scheme with clashing colors. It turns out it had been washed, and the washer had scrubbed off some of the new paint, revealing old colors underneath.
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That is not a special scheme.
That is the shop using up all the left-over cans of paint before they buy new paint.
You gotta admit - there's no mistaking it for anything else.
I wonder if the kid who drew it used all of the crayons in the box.....
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