This thread is born from Dougal who made a valid point as to personal tastes.
So what colour would you paint your Fleet?
The Musquodoboit, Eastern Shore & Sydney livery will remain simple.
Engines: Black, Yellow detailing and burgandy Cabs, lettering in gold.
Box Cars: Forest Green with gold leaf lettering
Ore Cars: Orange with black Lettering
Flat cars: Navy Blue with Gold Leaf lettering
Tank Cars: Yellow with black lettering
Gondolas: Black with with lettering
So lets keep it clean![;)]
I’ve always been partial to Big Sky Blue and Cascade Green.[8D]
My “California Southern” has sunset orange and avocado green livery. Very outre for 1910.
Randy
Lime and yellow. Have you ever seen photos of the Illinois Terminal RR? Gorgeous. Also warbonnet and santa fe yellow and blue and also like D&H colors. Others: Burlington and Lehigh Valley had cool colors.
I like ‘army’ green and bright green-- they seem to go well together. (The paint scheme of GO trains in Toronto is green, with some white as well. http://www.gotransit.com)
The Midwestern would have:
Passenger diesels: Yellow SF warbonnet type scheme on nose and either GT blue or Conrail blue (not the exact colors, though, just similar) for the rest.
Freight Diesels: Yellow warbonnet or yellow GT/SP type nose. GT blue or Conrail blue.
Steam locomotives: basic, Union Pacific style paint scheme.
Boxcars: Navy blue with Yellow lettering.
Passenger cars: Silver with blue and yellow stripes.
Gondolas: Black with yellow lettering.
Tank cars: Navy blue with yellow lettering.
Ore cars: Black with yellow lettering.
Hoppers (grain, coal, etc.): Yellow with black lettering.
I hope to model this RR someday.
The basic color would be Navy (with a hint of dark green) with Copper lettering. I like the patina color (blue-green-teal) of oxidized copper so accents and striping would be light to medium patina.
Engines: would have 3 shades of patina striping on the sides.
Rolling stock: would have a blended, gradual transition from a light patina on the top to navy on the bottom.
Maritime has the remaining first/second generation desiels in MoPac blue with white lettering, newer units in two tone gray with dark blue lettering. Rolling stock is either gray or Tuscan Red. Keeping it simple and easy to maintain and support.
I still prefer the original B & O blue, black, and gold on their early diesels. Boxcars should be red. Tuscan red is fine by me. Gondolas, hoppers, and flatcars should be black. Tank cars silver or gray. (I have NO autorack cars on my railroad). Ore cars would be red. Caboose (no FRED on my line!) bright red. For steam - black with the silver smokebox, simple white or gold lettering for the loco number and roadname on the tender.
I like the copper lettering mind if I borrow it?
Cow coloured. White with black slotches all over the locomotives. [:-^]
Tank cars would be pink like a pig. [dinner]
Boxcars would be painted like a barn, red with white trim [C):-)]
& if you believe that, I have some prime water front land in Florida I like to sell you CHEAP!! because I like you! [swg]
Gordon
Your related to Martha aren’t cha!
No, can’t say I am Fergus. [(-D]
Gordon
Passenger cars: dark green with black roofing and silver pin stripes & lettering
Steam and diesel locomotives: matching color scheme for passenger consists; black overall w/ green lettering/numbering for freight
Freight rolling stock: largely green (yep–green’s my favorite color!) or chocolate brown, each with silver lettering.
NYC Gray two tone for passenger and Black/ lite gray lightning stripe
i’m with Big_Boy, i like the big sky blue and the cascade green.
if hope i can find some more GN big sky blue boxcars or something tomorrow when i go to the LHS.
Locos: Cascade Green with Black lettering
Boxcars: Big Sky Blue with black or white lettering
I grew up near the water . I have always been fascinated by the sun
setting and rising over the green grass and the shores on the beach.
My paint scheme reflects these colors and elements.
ORANGE… for the setting sun on the gulf.
WHITE… for the clouds on a near perfect day at the beach.
TEAL… for the color of grass that never faded away near the shores.
The main look would be stainless silver with picturesque striping.
[}:)] I AM ALSO A MIAMI DOLPHIN FAN !!![:D]
I agree! (Big_Boy_4005 must have great artistic abilities) as those are my general colours also, I’m adding gold lettering.
I think that combo of colours first caught my attention years ago when I bought a pair of Eddie Bauer Runners.
Brown loco with gold trim. Rolling stock would be orange with brown lettering and black with gold lettering. Passenger cars would be navy blue with orange stripes.
Espee scarlet on th nose and rear, Conrail Blue on the rest. If our LHS doesn’t sell any of the colors, we will use a close match. The first engines we painted had D&H blue.