CN Fleet grows

[davidmbedard]

QUOTE: Originally posted by aloco

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.

Man…what a jerk.

David

[BentnoseWillie]

QUOTE: Thank-you for pouring your ponderous wealth of self-important, utterly superior knowledge on we wretched knuckle dragging bourgeois.

I don’t see one word in his post about your modelling or about your knowledge of the prototype, or about who is superior to whom. What I do see is an answer to this:

QUOTE: 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

Now, you did say you didn’t care - but you also said that you didn’t know weren’t sure, and therefore it’s logical that you might find it interesting. Besides that, it might be helpful to others reading the thread. I almost replied, but aloco already had, and you went off the deep end. I’m guessing he won’t bother next time, and he probably won’t be the only one if this is the sort of reception that such offers of information receive.

I don’t see what is so difficult about saying “Thanks - that’ll be useful for someone more concerned about accuracy than I am, but I like the green.”

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BentnoseWillie

QUOTE: Thank-you for pouring your ponderous wealth of self-important, utterly superior knowledge on we wretched knuckle dragging bourgeois.

I don’t see one word in his post about your modelling or about your knowledge of the prototype, or about who is superior to whom. What I do see is an answer to this:

QUOTE: 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

Now, you did say you didn’t care - but you also said that you didn’t know weren’t sure, and therefore it’s logical that you might find it interesting. Besides that, it might be helpful to others reading the thread. I almost replied, but aloco already had, and you went off the deep end. I’m guessing he won’t bother next time, and he probably won’t be the only one if this is the sort of reception that such offers of information receive.

I don’t see what is so difficult about saying “Thanks - that’ll be useful for someone more concerned about accuracy than I am, but I like the green.”

Yeah, you’re right. It would have been so easy to say, “Thanks - that’ll be useful for someone more concerned about accuracy than I am, but I like the green.”

I guess the point is, and I quote, “I don’t really care.” That’s why I said so. I thought it was a premptive strike to avoid filling the thread with information about CN and its accurate colour schemes and what eras they occurred in (which fyi, IS what proto-typing IS all about). And he most definitely did detail which colours were or were not used on which loco’s.

All I wanted to do was share a picture of my freshly painted SW9/1200. In colours I freakin’ like. Sheesh! Aaah never mind. Thanks for the information. Maybe someone else will cherish it.

T

[icmr]

Looks good. Good job.

Victor

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[BentnoseWillie]

I forgot to say that they are very nice…[:)]

[Anonymous]

Thanks Willie. Thanks Victor.

Trevor

[waltersrails]

pretty nice

[icmr]

Yes they are.

Victor

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