Favorite F Units?

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Agreed. This paint scheme is one of the best.

Is it available in HO from anybody?

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-SCALE-ATHEARN-GENESIS-BANGOR-AROOSTOOK-FREIGHT-F-3A-PHASE-2-LOCOMOTIVE-SET-/322210731896?hash=item4b05419778:g:02cAAOSwRgJXkPkG

The photos in this listing do not do them justice. I have the same set and they are gorgeous.

Stewart did them also, but I think the Athearn models look much better.

50 comments about Athearn light bulbs soon to follow …

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Maybe. [:P] The colours are good together, but the top of the nose needs something. As it is, it puts me in mind of a big grey fish with its mouth open (a good-looking one, mind you).
Even some anti-glare flat black on the top of the nose might help, since it looks to me that they ran out of blue.
I definitely would have given it a black roof, though, and maybe the nose top and windshield area in blue, with the curve of the gold striping, just aft of the number boards, mirrored to provide a border. Beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder, and I find it quite nice, but a bit unfinished-looking. [swg]

Wayne

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As I posted on the favorite GP thread being a fan of the ACR I am rather partial to:

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I forgot Monon Fs, right up their with NYC Lightning stripes. Plus the Monon had a catchy song.

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For me the top 3 is the Southern Railway black that has been replicated by the office units of Norfolk Southern,

Atlantic Coast Line’s purple and silver,

and a toss up between some of the B&O F units that acquired this paint job in service

and the Southern Pacific Black Widows

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I recently acquired an A-B set of F3’s, Athearn Genesis w/ sound in the Erie paint scheme. Haven’t had much of a chance to run them as I just moved and my layout is in pieces right now. My freelanced layout is themed on a fictional short line in northwest Ohio which interchanges cars with the Chessie and the Erie Lackawanna in the 1970s. Many of the EL’s motive power still had the pre-merger liveries, even up to the Conrail takeover, especially on older units like the F’s.

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Water Level Route,

I also prefer SP’s “Black Widow” over “Bloody Nose”.

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My favorite is the black and red Rock Island “Rock Freight” scheme.

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I liked the CP but my vote would be for the Great Northern. I was in Canada in the 70’s fishing and the westbound GN passenger train passed within a few hundred yards of our canoe. What a thrill and beautiful.

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Hi, #1 would be the true GM paint sceme, Boston & Maine, and # 2, NYC Lightning Stripe. H. Graves

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I gotta go with a rare one here, the original Bessemer & Lake Erie units with the black nose wings & rounded end side bands over the orange body. Of course, they look specially great when set as ABBA. THAT is the only way to put 6000 horsepower on the point. Four 567’s chanting their way along the railroad . . . awesome!

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That’s one of the best !!!

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Gotta be the Santa Fe red & silver warbonnet, original B&O (also C of Ga), and UP yellow

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My picks would be the Sante Fe Warbonnets and the Wabash Blue Birds.

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Night Train, Fun thread!

The paint scheme for my Kato HO F9 was heavily influenced by Milwaukee Road colors. Learning of the Seattle & North Coast Railroad’s use of F7s during the early 80s added plausibility to keeping the F9 in service on my freelanced early-1980s shortline ISL with carfloat operations.

Thanks and regards, Peter

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You’re all wrong…

Gotta be the MoPac Eagles!!!

(and me a WP guy)

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Probably the blue and yellow Santa Fe with CN a close second

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Mine as well. My first ever loco was a Fleischmann F3 in Burlington and I have sometimes thought of getting something in the same scheme. Not Fleischmann of course, but a current model purely out of nostalgia even although it is not my current era.

Bill