NS2591
March 2, 2007, 7:46pm
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The GTW GP38-2 I was in a few months ago was painted Light Green. It was really shabby too…
Just FYI there was no Great Northern Pacific…at least a real railroad by that name. There were two real railroads called the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Ironic that you would bring up the GNP since that is the name of both mine and my best friends’ railroads his in HO mine is S…however my best friend did drive an SW8 in the city of Butte, Montana for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) and he stated that the cab interior was a light green. This lkocomotive came originally from the Great Northern.
I’m starting to paint some of my locomotives, loosely based on the colors used by Great Northern Pacific. I’ve searched throughout Model Railroader Prototype Forums and the Great Northern Historical Site but have been unable to find any information about what the interior of various cabs looked like or what colors they were painted. I must admit that I have always been terrible at using search engines, as most of the time I get replies, that nothing fits the listing I’ve entered, I don’t know if I type to much or not enough. I am interested in the time period from the first diesels to present day diesels, as my railroad is set in the area of Northern Idaho and some of Western Montana covering a section of the Great Northern Pacific line I am making privately owned and therefore continued to buy newer engines using the Great Northern’s paint scheme. I also allow BN and the newer BNSF to use my main lines as part of the arraignments when the true Great Northern Pacific was bought up by Burlington Northern.[?]
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I’m starting to paint some of my locomotives, loosely based on the colors used by Great Northern Pacific. I’ve searched throughout Model Railroader Prototype Forums and the Great Northern Historical Site but have been unable to find any
OP asked the question ten years ago. I’m sure the cab has been painted by now.
tstage
June 2, 2014, 6:48pm
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Looks like another archeologist amongst our forum members, Dave. And, actually, this would be a more appropriate thread for the Prototype forum.
Tom
It was only his second post in 2 years. Cut him some slack.