Cincinnati Union Terminal Locos

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I recently found some pictures of the switchers used by the Cincinnati Union Terminal.

http://gelwood.railfan.net/cin-ut/cin-ut.html

From looking at the pictures I can’t tell if the units were painted dark blue or if they were faded black. Also is the lettering and stripping white or light yellow? Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the these units they would be willing to share? And if anyone has located any N-scale decals for them it would make things a lot easier.

George

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[#welcome] Welcome to the forums.

Speaking as a photo interpreter, I’d say that the basic blue was about the same as the blue on the C&O car in the last photo, and the lettering was white.

There are enough ‘other color’ items (especially the flesh tones of the people and the brick building in the photo of #36) to be comfortable with the color rendition of the images. Also, black usually weathers to a shade of grey, not blue.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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You might be right, Chuck, being as you are a photo interpreter, but the locos strike me as being black with white or light gray striping. The photos all have a blue cast which suggests they were taken with Ektachrome film. There’s also the feeling I can’t shake that blue was a relatively rare color for the kind of near “dip job” that came out of EMD in the early 50’s.

Andre

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I would attempt to find out which railroad it was a subsidiary of. I suspect C&O and blue and yellow.

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I saw these locos 40-45 years ago and I sort of remember them as being black with white lettering. Then I found the photos and started doubting by memory.

As for the parent company, the CUT was jointly owned by the B&O. C&O, NYC, PRR, N&W and Southern. I don’t really see a common color there.

Thanks for the replies

George

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It looks like you could take a 1 oz bottle of grimy black and add 5 drops of signal blue. Just like the PRR DGLE. Is it green or black or both? As for the stripes they appear to have been light yellow at one time. The tiger striped pilots are white for sure but there is a diference in the handrails. They could have been yellow also.

Good luck with your search.

Pete