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Post by jason29 on Apr 15, 2020 19:52:44 GMT -8
Ok..we have a best non-flashy paint scheme thread, let's hear what your favorite flashy paint schemes are.
There are plenty of very bright and colourful paint schemes out there these days, but I'm gonna have to say my all time favorite flashy paint scheme is somewhat vintage.. Chessie System.
Brightly colored and unmistakable.
What is/are yours?
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Post by chessie77 on Apr 15, 2020 22:05:06 GMT -8
I have to agree about the Chessie System.
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Post by riogrande on Apr 16, 2020 3:32:01 GMT -8
Besides the popular Santa Fe red/silver warbonnet, this one has always been a favorite of mine:  |
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Post by jonklein611 on Apr 16, 2020 7:35:52 GMT -8
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Post by edwardsutorik on Apr 16, 2020 7:58:03 GMT -8
I never have liked the salmon, yellow and blue Chessie scheme. Flashy it is, though.
Best flashy:
NYC lighting stripe
Warbonnet
Classic ACL
Southern
NP Loewy
CB&Q Blackbird
That's a start.
Ed
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Post by peoriaman on Apr 16, 2020 8:14:07 GMT -8
Amongst present-day railroads, nothing much tops this:  |
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Post by riogrande on Apr 16, 2020 8:23:15 GMT -8
Amtrak phase 1 SDP40F has always been a favorite flashy scheme of mine. Even in this rainy Sierra Nevada photo, the scheme really stands out (Schmollenger photo from Railpidtures.net)  |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Apr 16, 2020 11:24:14 GMT -8
Surely the Santa Fe silver-and-red Warbonnet is the all-time best flashy scheme? What could possibly be flashier?
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Post by riogrande on Apr 16, 2020 11:45:44 GMT -8
Yes Colin, I mentioned the obligatory/default Santa Fe red/silver warbonnet above. It would probably get top billing if a pole were taken.
The SDP40F, pictured above, is kind of a 70's version of it. I"m partial to the pointless arrow phase 1 Amtrak scheme having ridden the San Fransico Zephyr twice as a teen and now Athearn has offered the SFZ version finally on it's fourth run. Interestingly, the photo above shows one of the SDP40's not part of the series used on the SFZ. But it was early days yet - taken July 1974. No ice breakers on that unit. Number 568 probably went on to other trains not to long after the photo was taken. (SFZ series were road numbers 582-587 and 622-627, from memory)
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Post by fr8kar on Apr 16, 2020 14:29:08 GMT -8
The current Ferromex scheme is my favorite. The deep green and bright red stand out from each other and the large arrows and bold barricade stripes make it hard to miss. As much as I like the current scheme the old two tone blue NdeM/FNM scheme that preceded it is another winner.
Runners up are Katy's green and yellow, Rock Island's blue and white, Chessie System, Santa Fe's Super Fleet, Frisco's orange and white and Western Maryland red/white/black. They all grab my attention in a good way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 16:38:56 GMT -8
I do love the Rio Grande single stripe scheme pictured above! On a diesel it is perhaps my all-time favorite.
Second choice for me? The 1940-1941 PRR "East Wind" lemon yellow, silver pinstripes, and Brunswick green roof/ends.
And I love the CNJ tangerine and dark blue F-3's
And the Atlantic Coast Line purple and silver
And Reading green and yellow
For steam era I have to go with Texas & Pacific "Russian Iron" (light green), chrome, red cab roof, black, and graphite. See this link for Precision Scale's awesome 4-8-2's (in person it's a prettier green, the video doesn't quite do them justice):
However, I like most green steam power, excepting PRR "dark green locomotive enamel" ("Brunswick green") which is way way dark.
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Apr 17, 2020 2:07:20 GMT -8
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Apr 17, 2020 14:10:37 GMT -8
The original Great Northern Omaha Orange and Pullman Green with Dulux imitation gold stripes and Dulux imitation aluminum band.
I also like Great Northern Big Sky Blue and the original Northern Pacific black and yellow with red stripes freight scheme. The pine tree on the nose of the freight EMD F's was good looking.
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Apr 17, 2020 19:41:36 GMT -8
I'd say this is an easy question for me to answer: the New Haven FL9! www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1881286Not only was it revolutionary at the time (the first railroad to re-brand their image), it's still modern looking today. It is so good that not only did the NH not simplify the scheme on the FL9's when they had no money, the Conn. Dept. of Transportation repainted their FL9's into this scheme in 1985 (see above), then used it on all their engines until just recently. That's 50 years after the disappearance of the NH itself. Name me another paint scheme (name and logos included) that was used in revenue passenger service for an entire railroad's fleet of locos 50 years after the death of the railroad that spawned it. |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Apr 18, 2020 8:31:45 GMT -8
That's a great scheme. I've loved it ever since seeing it on the Lionel electric. And it's one of the reasons I bought a couple of FL9's.
It's probably the first scheme to ever go "angular" on a diesel locomotive.
And it IS flashy. Hooray Mrs. McGinnis!
Ed
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Post by mvlandsw on Apr 18, 2020 13:21:14 GMT -8
Chessie is my favorite, but I worked on them for as long as they lasted.
The Amtrak pointless arrow is the best scheme they have used. It needed the Amtrak name on the nose though.
I like the C&EI blue and orange.
GM&O was nice.
Milwaukee Road maroon, orange, and black.
KCS red, yellow, and black, old and new versions.
Lehigh Valley snowbirds.
Amtrak silver GG1.
Chessie GM50.
SCL 1776, the best of the centennial paint jobs.
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Post by thunderhawk on Apr 18, 2020 17:26:49 GMT -8
 Fairly flashy. Also, Rock Bankruptcy Blue. And today I see it is making a comeback as a shortline going by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific LLC just released a locomotive from the paint shop today. Dunno if linking a FB pic works but I'll try as I can't find a pic anywhere else yet.  |
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Post by thebessemerkid on Apr 21, 2020 14:16:40 GMT -8
Chessie, Amtrak phI, LV snowbirds, NYC lightning stripe, GN orange/green/yellow, ATSF warbonnet + whiskers (was whiskers non-flashy?), Virginian...
(GM&O, but only on the timeless, magnificent, incomparable Ingalls)
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Post by drsvelte on Apr 21, 2020 15:58:58 GMT -8
There is Flashy and Splashy, but more importantly there is CLASSY…….
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Post by riogrande on Apr 21, 2020 16:08:29 GMT -8
Poiple! I had friends with a little girl who want to see a purple engine run but alas, I didnt have one like that.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Apr 21, 2020 17:17:04 GMT -8
I got me a purple ACL AB set of E's a LONG time ago. 'Cause I liked it. And I picked up some shiny cars with purple letterboards to go with them. Gotta dig 'em out and put some sound in them.
When I was a kid, there was a hobby shop in Arlington VA (or thereabouts) that had a layout in the window, populated with such a train. I'm pretty sure the locos were Varney. Don't know the train. Loved it!
Ed
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Post by thebessemerkid on Apr 21, 2020 17:46:02 GMT -8
I'm pretty sure 60's Tyco had a purple & silver ACL passenger train. By the 70's they probably had an ACL C430. Still bummed Tyco never did the PRR J1 2-10-4 that graced the last(?) page of one of their late 60's catalogs. Pretty sure it was the AHM brass model painted up, but back then one could only dream of a $100 brass loco. A local hobby shop in a shopping center that has been long gone had a brass Big Boy for $200. Back then $200 was an incomprehensible sum for a kid delivering newspapers. Pestered a kindly aunt and walked out pleased as could be with a $5.99 powered Athearn Hustler. Which I still have, although need new rubber bands to run it. Should probably order some Buna-N o-rings of the correct size so driveline issues would never rear their head again. Also waited in vain for the AHM SR&RL HOn3 catalogued vaportrains. *sigh* Anyway, another candidate for this thread or maybe the other thread. Can't keep em straight.  |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Apr 21, 2020 19:41:28 GMT -8
I'm pretty sure 60's Tyco had a purple & silver ACL passenger train. I found it in the 1962 catalog on hoseeker. Well, not as a set, but listed. Could'a been. Around that time I DID get the Revell switcher in ACL. Ran like crap, but fairly attractive. Ed |
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