For all you creative guys out there who aren’t using exact prototype paint jobs on your locos, show us what you came up with for YOUR railroads motive power.
I bumped heads with my good train buddy Joe Brugger for a while and after enough time and procrastination here’s what we came up with. Joe did the actual painting on the Atlas RS-1.
Cheers,
Charlie Comstock
You may guess that I’m a Reading fan.
Russell Rail is my free lance I have had it of about 10 years now
Through the layouts:
And beyond:
[image posted w/ permission of author (7/18/08) and mr forum)
None of mine have left the digital age, save a BL2, but I have a couple done up on the comp.
Here;s the BL2 though, anyway. Unletered. it was an attempt at a scheme, may end up being a contest entry from a local
There’s a matching F ABBA set. I like the way it looks Digitally, but in reality, they don’t do so well.
This is what I use for my fictional road, the Midland Gulf Railway (MGRy).
Flat white, flat black and the roadname in flat red and yellow.
Right now its just a piece of paper taped to the side of my precious old SD40-2. Just can’t bring my heart to get rid of that old BN color (grandfather worked for them way back when). Plus if I take the plunge, I’d prefer to commit to something more detailed than a 1990 vintage BB SD40-2.
Ultimately:
In retrospect, I should have picked up an old beater loco at the show last month to practice the scheme on.
I guess this could be called ‘proto-lance’. The Rio Grande never had Yellowstones on its roster (though it did rent some from the Missabe Road during WWII). So this is one of my my ‘never was’ L-140 3900 series 2-8-8-4’s painted and lettered for the Denver and Rio Grande Western. Grimy black boiler, frame and tender, silver cylinder heads, trim and roller-bearing journals, and graphite smoke-box and fire-box.
Tom [:)]
Some nice locomotive paint schemes… But what’s a train without some rolling stock?
And bringing up the rear…
Lee
Do trolleys count? I’ve done both this Bowser PCC car
and this Bachmann Peter Witt
Both were done with rattle-can spray paint and a bit of hand brush-painting, plus home-cooked decals.
Grand Valley steam, based on the locos of the TH&B:
Grand Valley diesel, based of the diesels of the TH&B, but with green substituted for maroon:
Erie Northshore steam (the inspiration for the yellow stripes from NC&StL’s “Yellowjackets”):
Erie Northshore diesel, inspired, sorta, by NKP (and a good link to the steam-era Northshore scheme):
Elora Gorge & Eastern steam (the herald placement on the tender inspired by Great Northern):
EG&E diesel (freight):
EG&E modern diesel:
EG&E diesel (passenger), based on the CNR’s freight scheme:
Grand River Southern, based on the CNR’s early diesel scheme:
Wayne
I really like this one a lot.
My ECI (East Central Indiana) railroad.
My Port Destiny is a simple blue with yellow lettering .
Thanks. Here’s a couple more views:
Wayne
A while back there was something on making your own railroad stamp decals. They gave you a basic pattern but you could change it up to make it your own. I have lost the site, can anyone help me out with this?
mike
Alex: The WRS scheme changed quite a bit since that drawing…Maybe a photo of 1701 would work better?
The now shelved modern Penn Lake System lightning stripe scheme:
The C&O Enchantment Blue, I used is too dark for my liking, the red lettering disappeared into the blue. Had I continued along this model timeline, I would have switched to something like Conrail Blue or D&H Avon Blue.
Nick
