Thought I’d share my hobby of painting locomotive drawings. The drawings are my own work. I create fantasy schemes of fallen flags, and existing railroad schemes. Here’s a small sample.
Enjoy
CB&Q EMD GP38-2 in the black/gray scheme. I changed the gray nose stripes to white. I think it contrasts better.
Next is an SD60 is CB&Q’s Chinese red scheme.
And third is SSW GP60 9703. The drawing depicts the way the prototype unit looked in 2008. I have yet to add some weathering to it.
More to come…
Its always nice to imagine what could have been. The SD50\60 was a good looking locomotive that probably would have done a lot of classic paint schemes justice. Nice work…keep it coming.
Thanks.
Yes it is.
I wonder would SSW have adopted “Speed Letting” for the Cotton Belt had SP kept SSW as a subsidiary into the 1990s? It would be neat to see a speed lettered Cotton Belt logo.
The Cotton Belt (SSW) remained a wholey owned subsidiary of the Southern Pacific until 1992 when it was consolidated within the parent company (SP). In 1996, Union Pacific absorbed the entire Southern Pacific operation which, by that time, also included the D&RGW.
Very nice, how long does it take you to do one of these?
Remember the UP purchased the Rio Grande; Who happened to own the SP and SSW. They just kept the SP name for marketing reasons
Thanks.
Depending on the paint scheme and how much time I have, it can take a few days to a few weeks.
They purchased RGI which was the parent of SP (and what was the D&RGW). The D&RGW had already been fully merged into the SP by the time Uncle Pete came to the table.
Perhaps it would’ve looked something like this???
Lyon Wonder wrote:
I wonder would SSW have adopted “Speed Letting” for the Cotton Belt had SP kept SSW as a subsidiary into the 1990s? It would be neat to see a speed lettered Cotton Belt logo.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
3-D unlike others
Woohoo! Thanks for starting the party, Larry. It’s about time everyone saw your work!
We talk a lot outside of the forums and as such, I have also painted several of his drawings myself. Here’s a few of my paintjobs:
Like Larry’s SP SD60T, I went with the speed lettering scheme for this unit. Tried to keep detailing close to how SP painted their GP60s.
You know…I was never keen on MoPac painting their SD50s in UP colors. So I went ahead and gave an SD60 some more traditional MP colors.
This particular unit would’ve been what CNW 8007 became if the lease hadnt expired beforehand. This may seem unusual for me to give a UP unit an ex CNW number, but that’s only because I gave this unit plenty of additional detail. Miniwings, flag, Z stripe. So it actually looks good instead of that boring-as-dirt red text scheme that all of UP’s SD60s wore.
How bout some regional love! This is one of my favorite paint jobs too. The scheme takes to the long SD60 quite nicely! It’s too bad IAIS probably won’t lease any that the class 1s returned.
There’s just a few that I’ve painted. Larry, you were 3D’ing the IAIS unit? I can’t remember. I just know I sent you all the files for your collection 
Nice!!! We’ll have to keep this thread going. I have alot more to post when I get time.
So what kind of paint are you using for these? Looks like oil based. Are you painting them digitally or one masonboard or what exactly?
Just curious. I used to draw locomotives when I was under 18. Perspective is tricky when it is a 3/4 view, so is scale.
We’re “painting” these digitally.
Where did you get the unpainted drawings?
I draw them myself. There are online sources for similar drawings that you can download. One site is here:
Thanks. You can tell me if I am being too nosey here. I just started my own website with it’s own discussion forums. Not railroad related. I am a computer programmer right now.
So one last question, so are you digitally painting these with Photoshop CS4? Photoshop Elements? what package. Again, no interest on my own of painting locomotives just curious in the graphics package. So the graphics package is what I am really interested in here BUT for another purpose. I tried Photoshop Elements a little with my website theme (background) and it worked pretty well with blending colors.
Again, if you don’t want to answer thats fine…just curious.
I can answer this one…He uses paint. Simple as that. We both do. PS is just too expensive
BC Rail GEVO. Blank drawing by Michael Eby from his website http://trainiax.net/
