Hi guys,
I suppose this could qualify as Photo Fun stuff, but I can’t wait until tomorrow night!
I just finished stripping/painting/decaling my fourth locomotive in the good ole CN Green & Yellow livery. It’s a P2K SW9/1200.
And here’s my the full fleet (is 4 a fleet
I hope you like them. I’m very happy with how this whole “painting my own loco’s” thing is going.
Trevor
Brilliant job! I’m liking that Alco, very well done mate.
Cheers!
~METRO
Nice man, green is my favorite color. Sadly I’m a conrail modeler and I don’t know of any green locos on their roster just blue.
Trevor, nice looking units!
DD, I do believe that the E units they had for the business train were green!
Gordon
CN’s green and gold E9s are actually new arrivals to the system. During the streamliner era the only Canadian road to stock any E-units was the Canadian Pacific, and those were actually built in the United States for CP’s international passenger trains.
CN used a lot of MLW FPAs and GMD Fs in passenger service, as well as passenger-equipped hood units.
Cheers!
~METRO
I was going to ask if the VIA E-9 I saw on E-bay was accurate.
James
Oops! Sorry!
I ment to say that Conrails Business E-units were green!
Gordon
Very Nice Trevor
My two C-Liners in Green livery would look right at home with that lot.
I have a third one on order. (5 axle)
Fergie
That engine looks great, and so do all of your others. You know, you should do a couple of modern engines in that old green scheme. Maybe something like a Tower 55 engine. Just a thought. I think that it would look sweet!
Actually I think 4 would be a gaggle of locos.
Seriously though nice work on the engines. I have a fleet of two, a dash-8 in csx and an undecorated geep 30 I’m only going to be using the geep as I’m modeling late 60’s through late 70’s My next purchase is going to be a switcher, though I’m not absolutely certain on what model yet.
Thanks for all your kind words.
Just as a note, the third engine counting from left to right is a GP9m. I’ve checked everywhere, and as far as I can tell it never existed in Green & Yellow. I’m not even sure the SW9/1200 did either. But personally I don’t really care if they did or not. On my bench right now is a GP38-2 which I know never existed in Green & Yellow. It’s going to look awesome in that proud livery.
Fergie,
I definitely will be adding a couple of F-units in Green & Yellow to the roster as time goes along. I’ve seen them up close at my LHS and the do look very nice.
Trevor
proto-lance!
(or freeto-type, remember that?lol)
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Originally posted by Fergmiester
Very Nice Trevor
My two C-Liners in Green livery would look right at home with that lot.
I have a third one on order. (5 axle)
your doing the opposite of what i ordered I’m getting 2 in 61 paint and 1 in green gold
Don
Trevor, You mentioned the GP9M. Is that a redone Walthers Trainline loco? Great job. I’m trying to get up the nerve to repaint a GP38-2 in the last IC paint scheme (black with the “globe” logo)
Yes indeed. Good eyes. It is a Walthers Trainline GP9m. It was originally painted in modern CN livery with the map of North America on the side. My GP 38-2 is almost completely stripped now, just a few more wee bits to strip and it’s off to the airbrush room…umm I mean garage…of course you know I’ll post a pic when it’s done…just to infuriate the purests…LOL!!!
Trevor
The absolute MOST DIGUSTING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! (This is sarcasm as I am a CP modeler)
Well done on the paint job…
David
CN SW9s(7000-7009) and SW1200s (7020-7035) were painted black, not green. The SW1200RS units (1200 and 1300 number series) were green , but they were road engines and not yard switchers. Green was only used for road locomotives, while black was used for yard switchers. And there were never any chop-nosed units in the green scheme. CN didn’t have any chop-nosed Geeps until the mid-1980s, and by then the diagonal grey and black striped scheme with orange ends was used for road locomotives.
Nice stuff! You’d fit right in at our club, CN, GTW and AA in the 50s!
Thank-you for pouring your ponderous wealth of self-important, utterly superior knowledge on we wretched knuckle dragging bourgeois. Without your supercilious spewing of historically accurate data I am not sure that I could make it through the day. (have you caught the sarcasm yet?)
How totally disturbing you must find it that I am well aware of the “actual” colour scheme used by the “actual” Canadian National Railway down through time in memorium (Did you know we call it a Railway in Canada, not a Railroad). But as I stated when I posted my pics of my GP9m in Green & Yellow livery…“I know they never really existed”. What I really want to say to you aloco is “get stuffed”! It’s my “bleeping” model railroad. And "No, (sneer) it’s not based on any bleeping proto-type, because that’s the direction I have choosen. It makes me happy. Most people appreciate the modelling and painting for what it is.
Thank-you for your reply aloco. But please be forewarned, for your safety…I am painting a GP-40 in Green & Yellow and you’re proto-typical brain is sure to suffer a stroke when I post my pictures of it. So for your safety and in respect for your loved ones…For God sake please don’t look! I couldn’t live with that on my conscience.
For those of you who do appreciate modelling and painting for what it is I will be adding pics of my S-2 (not black) and GP-38 in Green & Yellow livery later this week.
Go get-em Trevor, I’m with you, The Southern Pacific never had FA units from Alco either, but I did up two in the Black Widow scheme, BECAUSE I LIKE THEM. Proto-lance is fine with me too.
