BNSF 4433 needs a new coat of paint ASAP!
Given that it’s a Dash 9, I wouldn’t expect to see it repainted anytime soon.
Heritage 2.5 is still an improvement versus the crappy original GN Orange & Green.
I can’t say I’ve seen this version of the paint job before, but they must have used one crappy batch of paint. Look at the variations of the same colour around the numbers under the cab. It’s on a flat suface with vary few if any variations caused by different metal panels and yet the colour chage is so noticable. Quite and interesting photo.
AgentKid
Had a couple like that all over the system. Look at the old Warbonnets still around. They look worse. THing is they started painting them old dogs,but never touched anything mechanical.Nor did they do anything to the interior of the cab.Can we say Rock Capital Rebuild program part 2?
I kinda like it . It has sort of a lemon-chiffon cake look to it.[dinner]
What I have read, is that some locomotives had been painted with coatings that were not as harmfull to the envirement. They didn’t weather as well as expected.
While the paint is faded…it still looks to be adequately protecting what it is supposed to. Until it starts flaking off, or until a major collision repair it won’t get repainted.
Not sure about your neck of the woods, but around here we call the good paint jobs “pumpkins” and those like the one shown are referred to as “peaches”. [(-D]
I know. C40-8Ws still in their ATSF Warbonnet paint look even worse. Over half the C40-8W roster is now H2 or the New Image. Though about 20 are now in the New Image, BNSF may not repaint more “pinkbonnets” for awhile since most of the C40-8W roster is now in storage.
Reading the caption to the photo, it looks like there was already confusion as to how it was supposed to be painted.
You know, if you squint your eyes a bit, it takes on a sort of loveble CNW look.[^]
It was in the lead. Must be doin’ something right.
Yep! That’s right! I see more BNSF’s than NS somtimes! We see a lot of pumpkins. But that is like baby poop yellow!
Strangely, 4443 looks awful as well, but on the same day 4446 looked pretty nice as can be seen here.
http://look4trains.com/2009/04/study-in-orange-hues.html
Jim
I would have thought that paint scheme would have weathered better than it did.
George
that yellow has a kind of mixed dye batching that occurs in persian rugs. My wife calls this type of mismatch of dyes “Abrash”—that’s what the oriental carpet guys describe it as–
Interesting effect
Anyone notice how the blue and yellow warbonnet still looks good after years of neglect? Even the 700 series red and silver warbonnets have weathered better than the orange garbage.
It’s all in the actual paint that was used - obviously that batch stunk, and they undoubtedly bought it by the 55 gallon drum.
Reminds of a brand of small truck - they must have had trouble with that batch of metallic gray, because I’ve seen many trucks of a certain make, model, and year that have the paint flaking badly.
That reminds me of my old '88 Jeep Cherokee. Before it was 5 years old, spots of the paint were bubbling off and rust was emerging from underneath. The body shop guy told me that AMC had been trying a newer formula of paint that year–one that was water-based, thus the early rusting.