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I knew it was easy, but the only other colors I know are Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray, and that’s easier yet!
OK–who used Chinese Red? (Another easy one)
The Q, er, CB&Q
Frisco’s last color was called Mandarin Orange but it looked red. M-K-T’s last color probably had a name, but we all called it John Deere Green and Yellow.
And who’s your railroad that honored not one, but two on-line universities? (Strong hint in the question)
And which one actually had “imitation stainless” as an integral color of its paint scheme (which also otherwise honored a university that was not along its line)?
Monon’s Gold(ish) and Black?
Nick
The first railroad was the Monon. Grey and red for Indiana U. and gold and black for Purdue.
Have to think about the other.
Who used Avon Blue and Gray?
Nick
Rats! I knew that one. Is the second one ATSF on their Warbonnets?
That sounds like CSX. I thought there was a fancy name for the grey. “French Toast Grey”?[:o)]
Nope…keep trying.
Trouble is…the answer will be so obvious, I’ll feel like a real dumby.[sigh] The only other prominate blue that comes to mind, other than Conrail, is Delaware & Hudson?
How bout the B&O?
Bert
ATSF used just silver (or aluminum), as far as I know–not counting the actual stainless steel. This Imitation Stainless was paint, applied to otherwise all-steel locomotives, to complement the real stainless steel on their passenger cars. It later degenerated to a more mundane gray, which nonetheless was very attractive with colors close to the other colors in the question (which would give it all away).
CBQ, on their Zephyr passenger trains? I know they started out with a few E-units in stainless steel. I think there’s one in a museum somewhere-Chicago(?) maybe? The rest were pale grey, with red. Am I close?
B&O perhaps. Their passenger trains had a really sharp blue/grey/black(?) scheme.
I know this is a stretch, but Metra’s F40C’s on the MLWK had immitation silver on the sides.
And the winner is Delaware & Hudson Lighting Stripe. The “Altschul blue” used on the dip jobs, usually looked darker then the Avon Blue used on the Lighting Stripe locomotives. I suspect this has more to do with how the locomotives were painted rather then a big difference in the color of the blue.
Nick
Nobody’s gotten my “imitation stainless” color user correct yet. Nothing so recent as Metra, nor was it anyone who used actual stainless steel (CB&Q) on its locomotives.
The Imitation Stainless would “wave” at you as it went by.
Pere Marquette?[:P]