Take a look at the paint job on SP 7675.
Looks like a santa fe freight-war bonnet!! Unusual SP loco, never seen one like that.
Using up old paint – “The Yellow Nose of SP…”
It almost looks like it’s now a lease unit and the leasing company repainted it to this. Note the total lack of UP fonts or logos.
It does have SP below the number. In terms of identification, this is very similar to those SP 8200 series SD40T-2s that UP repainted in the late 1990s.
Here is a better photograph of it.
Rather than being a Bloody Nose scheme, would this be called the Snot Nose scheme?
I pretty much agree with Kenneo. Somebody was using up surplus paint in a paint shop someplace.
Another explanation: SP 7675 is a wreck rebuild. The unit was rebuilt in a private line shop (non-railroad / non-UP), UP needed the unit placed back in service a.s.a.p., and what the photo shows is the paint the shop had available. The yellow on the nose certainly is a lot more visible than the badly soiled scarlet one usually sees!
Whoever did it did not do good job. You can still see “Southern Pacific” and “7675” on the side of the locomotive.
Hey, They stole my paint scheme. Well, very close. I model a freelanced railroad called the Nevada Central and it’s a SP subsidiary that uses yellow instead of red where applicable. What a trip.[:D]
Then get out your checkbook. They’ll probably sue you for it.
Or better still, can you sue them???[#oops]