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I just got in from diggin' up about nine feet of irrigation line to find the place where a pocket gopher chewed a couple holes in the pipe (saves me the $100/hr for the irrigation contractor to find it), so I'm probably a little mind-fatigued as well as sore in every muscle below the waist.  Unfortunately I trapped the little SOB after he did the damage last fall. I was thinking of this while digging.  There are/were paint schemes on railroads that, to me, looked great on certain types of locomotives, but not on others.  Same colors, same basic arrangements, but for whatever reason, they only looked right on certain locomotives. For example: CNW F-units:  Even though I'm a CNWHS member, the CNW yellow & green never did much for me, but on their F7s and F3s, especially the later scheme with just the ball & hashmark logo, the livery looks much better.  I've seen plenty of CNW locomotive power over the years, but those F units look the best in that pattern while everything else was pretty boring. ICG GP30s:  The orange & grey scheme used by the ICG never appealed to me at all, except on their GP30s.  I liked it so much I custom-painted one in that scheme for my N scale layout, where it looks very striking parked in my yard right now.  CGW Deramus-Era F-units:  The later, Deramus-era red never looked right to me on their SD40s, GP7s and GP30s, but on their covered-wagons it looked perfect.  Admittedly, F's and E's are my favorite engines of all time, but not every paint scheme looked right on them to me, but the basic red or maroon with the "Lucky Strike" logo - very nice. BN High-Nose GPs/SDs:  The BN green & white was pretty bland to me and I saw an awful lot of that living in Minnesota and Iowa.  However, put the white safety stripes on the ends of their high-nose hood units and they look real good to me.  I still stop and snap a picture whenever I can still see one in the yards up here (most often parked on a storage track or dead line). BNSF Pumpkin SD9s:  I can't stand the BNSF pumpkin scheme on any of their units except the few high-nose SD9s (maybe some are SD7s) they have left on the roster.  I saw such a unit looking very spiffy in that pattern westbound out of Wilmar (it was third in the consist) and I snapped 3 photos just of that engine (almost bought an SD9 for my layout to custom paint like that). Anyone else with such specific likes/dislikes?
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