Despite what the currently are - what should the paint schemes of the Class 1’s be?
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BNSF red with SF nose decal
UP armour yellow and red
NS black
CSX B&O blue and C&O yellow
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Not sure anymore.
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How about those heritage units? Surely that won’t get a thread locked.
Not sure here
If UP absorbs NS and BNSF does CSX, the new graphics, that will last for many years, is the “patch”.
Which might be its own subject: how could a ‘patch’ to remove older numbers or lettering be integrated with the older paint schemes?
NS, whether or not corporately renamed ‘Union Pacific’, has an interesting thing opened to it. Several of the predecessor UP-octopus railroads ran trains in varied shades of gray. Bog-standard NS black and white can be mixed to gray. Lightning-stripe, Overland, Lark grays…
I would hold out for CSX renewing Chessie. No railroad scene, however gloomy, was not enriched when one of those engines appeared. And we can fix the ‘broken dish’ problem easily…
I’d just have heritage-like versions of the best of predecessor schemes for BNSF if you don’t like pumpkin spice – and standardize the colors, stencils, masks and vinyls/wraps for each, so that each shop has its own. No reason why one corporate identity needs just one true color scheme…
Which brings us to consider that most brilliant of ‘patch jobs’, the Belle colors on the aft end of those previously red-dip CP units. Easy, relatively inexpensive… and nobody who sees it won’t remember KCS. Perhaps a similar approach would work if Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray get applied as a base scheme after the merger…
Remove paper backing of yellow patch.
Affix over old ns number.
Apply pressure for tight fit.
Done.
Now will they order new rear number boards or do that really odd up thing of painting the rear number below the number board blank?
The only railroad that I can think of that does a good, blended patch scheme is the W&LE.
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