I’ve got a RS2 and a GP9 Seaboard engines from Proto 2000. Both engines are green with a yellow belt and red small lines.
As I’m looking for SAL switcher I can’t find the same colors. All (modell) switchers shown in the web are red and black.
The SAL prototype pictures are of little help to me as they show even more colors.
I understood green/yellow is the right color for about 1960. What was the color of switchers at that time and are there H0 models available?
From the introduction of diesel switchers until the Seaboard Coast Line Merger in 1967, all Seaboard switchers were black and Chinese red with Aluminum lettering. The earliest switchers had Roman Style lettering. Subsequent version hailed the SEABOARD font found on the balance of the road’s diesels.
Several models were released. Currently, Happy Hobo in Tampa, FL is carrying Baldwin and EMD switchers accurately painted in the switcher scheme.
Past releases include an ALCO S-2 from Atlas, Baldwin VO-1000 and S-12 from Stewart Hobbies, and Kato EMD NW2
Only the road switchers, FTs, F3s, and U-Boats were painted in the green schemes (yes there were two). The light green scheme was used briefly in the 1960s.