chicagorailsAnd I thought 2grand was a lot to pay to paint my 1976 sedan DeVille cadillac
Was watching a aircraft site - painting a commercial aircraft is between $100K & $200K or more - depending how fancy and artistic the owner wants the plane to be.
A friend has a 30 foot race car trailer that he had repainted about 15 years ago - $3500 for a two tone white on top and yellow on the bottom - straight line separation.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
chicagorailsHow much to paint one reg co colors?
A paint job for a locomotive is in the $20K-40K range. It takes quite a few gallons for each engine.
You only need one engine painted in each of the ten predessor railroads.
BN, BN sublettered FWD, BN sublettered, C&S, TP&W, ATN, CB&Q, SP&S, GN, NP and ATSF.
Seeing more photos show up on railpictures.
Looks like all the decal-bonnets are identical.
They could go with all the BRK holdings ... that would get busy!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshire_Hathaway
rdamonIf NASCAR raced locomotives..
If NASCAR raced locomotives..
Kind of reminds me of Skittles with all the bright colors on the side.
Was afraid they were all going to be that way. Was how the press release read, so I'm not too surprised to see repeats.
Of course this is still a world in which 15 minutes of casual railfanning turns up three units in Warbonnet paint and three -- in a block! -- in executive scheme. (And this 5 minutes after seeing ex-IC 1011 and 1019, both still in unpatched 'death star' paint, running doubleheaded... on NS...)
https://railpictures.net/photo/746883/
https://railpictures.net/photo/746882/
It is doughtful that the BNSF will paint any locomotives as the NS has done. Cost is the primary reason. NP [2] (freight black and Lowey green), GN [2] (EB colors and Big Sky Blue), CBQ [2] Chinese red and original GP and SD colors, SLSF, SPS, and ATSF [2] FT blue and yellow and the war bonnet.
Ed Burns
OvermodThere may be issues with not offending competitors or other shippers
Possibly, but the shippers issue is a non-starter with the examples I gave, Amtrak and NJ Transit don't have shippers. As far as competitors go as far as I know Amtrak and NJT don't play favorites, you want your ad on the locomotive, sure, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
Man, would I love to see one in Big Sky Blue with the mountain goat logo and another in the NP's Loewy scheme.
Great looking locomotive with those decals. As far as I am concerned, the SLSF and ATSF could have been left off. The SLSF was run by a bunch of southern clods who did not know railroading. The ATSF people took over and knew nothing about winter railroading and screwed up a good railroad.
They forgot the FW&D.
The BN was formed by railroaders who know how to railroad in all weather.
I was there at Northtown (Minneapolis) in 1970 and witnessed it first hand.
Retired NP, BN, etc. from Northtown.
Flintlock76Why it's not done more often as a revenue source I couldn't say.
I suspect if there were better mobile 'wrap' teams, with railroad safety savvy, a better pitch could be made to transit authorities or various freight operators. Although I have latently-suppressed, terrible by dim recollection memories of something involving Amtrak and libraries that leads me to start finding excuses not to facilitate this sort of thing...
Flintlock76 Murphy Siding You guys need to think way outside the box. Entities that own stadiums figured out how to make an extra buck. Why does the paint job even have to be railroad related? They could cover the locomotive with advertizing. Think big: Microsoft, Mountain Dew, Budweiser! It's been done! But not often though. I've seen photos of Amtrak NEC locomotives "skinned" with advertising, also some NJ Transit units. Why it's not done more often as a revenue source I couldn't say.
Murphy Siding You guys need to think way outside the box. Entities that own stadiums figured out how to make an extra buck. Why does the paint job even have to be railroad related? They could cover the locomotive with advertizing. Think big: Microsoft, Mountain Dew, Budweiser!
You guys need to think way outside the box. Entities that own stadiums figured out how to make an extra buck. Why does the paint job even have to be railroad related? They could cover the locomotive with advertizing. Think big: Microsoft, Mountain Dew, Budweiser!
It's been done! But not often though. I've seen photos of Amtrak NEC locomotives "skinned" with advertising, also some NJ Transit units.
Why it's not done more often as a revenue source I couldn't say.
Via Rail used to have a bunch of wrapped ad locomotives. Kool-Aid, Spiderman, Home Hardware and Telus come to mind, though there were more. The Quebec lottery one was the worst, it ended up looking like a giant turd as the paint faded.
https://www.railbus.ca/via-ad10.html
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I started railfanning in the 1950's. Back then they were called "heralds". Nobody ever heard the word "logo" then.
UNTIL BNSF releases the locomotives, everyone is just speculating on what the paint schemes will be. NOTHING official has been said about which paint schemes will be uses.
Flintlock76I'd love to see a resurrection of those classic paint schemes like the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, CB&Q, and Santa Fe had, but then I wouldn't be the one paying for it.
Most of those were designed by General Motors - EMD to make their E and F cab units look better.
All of goods and services owned by Berkshire could be advertised on the side of BNSF locos....Geico, Dairy Queen, Duracell, Steelcase...
Murphy SidingWhy does the paint job even have to be railroad related? They could cover the locomotive with advertising. Think big: Microsoft, Mountain Dew, Budweiser!
Somewhere I still have a copy of the artwork from the initial marketing guy for the T1 Trust that has the tender decked out in supergraphic Coca-Cola red and white script. (Ties in with Tuscan-red collector cans made with 'real sugar' and twice the caffeine...)
I assume everyone here has seen Kelly Lynch's Coke commercial with 765, a different but certainly no less effective way to do promotion.
The skins I developed for the 'New London Bus' competition would allow this sort of thing to be loaded and run, including animation, just like modern billboards...
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
If stickers are all they do then honestly it's a bit of a disappointment. But when you come right down to it they don't have to do anything.
I'd love to see a resurrection of those classic paint schemes like the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, CB&Q, and Santa Fe had, but then I wouldn't be the one paying for it.
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