Worst special scheme loco

[csxengineer98]

i like it.. its so differnt it stands out..

csx engineer 

[ericsp]

That KCS locomotive reminds me of those cars that get wrecked and the owner goes to the wrecking yard to get "new" body panels to replace the damaged ones.

Did anyone nickname these locomotives Frankenstein?

[wgnrr]

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

[garyla]

Locomotive paint designers, here is your brain on drugs.  See?

[Lyon_Wonder]

In an earlier post, I believe it was stated that grade school kids came-up with this scheme.  I wonder if the KCS management who approved this scheme may have flunked grade school?

At least KCS didn't hold a grade school contest to select the paint scheme for their executive F-units.

[Tjsingle]

Maybe someone lost a bet?

[Ted Marshall]

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.

[Lyon_Wonder]

  Yep this was an actual paint scheme.  This engine was painted in the mid 1970s, and I doubt anybody at KCS would get away with this with the current leadership.   According to one link, the paint scheme has something to do with a drawing contest, and one of the contestants drawings was chosen. 

KCS 642 

 

[Anonymous]

In an earlier post, I believe it was stated that grade school kids came-up with this scheme.  I wonder if the KCS management who approved this scheme may have flunked grade school?

[doghouse]

 

Where are the reporting marks?  Aren't all road units supposed to carry them?  Maybe on the not seen side? 

[Ted Marshall]

This is a joke, right?

[Lyon_Wonder]

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.