What is your favorite paint scheme?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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My favorite is the folowing Union Pacific paint scheme

Next up would be the new Amtrak Phase V scheme

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I’m obviously partial to the PRR but I think Mopacs passenger scheme of light gray and blue is exceptional and if you asked the general public I’d bet the farm on the ATSF passenger war bonnet scheme on F units as first choice.

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The Union Pacific is a classic that seems to work well on anything.

I like the SP Black Widow

#2 WP silver and orange.

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I like Canadian Pacific’s old Tuscan and gray scheme - classic!

Bob Boudreau

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On passenger equipment,SP Daylight[:)].
On F units,Santa Fe Warbonnet[8D].
SP red & grey looks really good when fresh and clean.[8D]
Of course,on SP this means either fresh from the factory,or right out of Sacramento Shops after a rebuild[}:)].

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The New Haven McGinty scheme.

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Conrail
and
Deleware and Hudson Blue grey yellow scheme

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I think it would look better in orange and black

9

Guilford gray

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Steam: Daylight express
http://www.atelier-hanerau-kb.de/mediac/400_0/media/$A9Amerik.~Eisenb.jpg

Deisle: Norfolk southern w/out operation life saver (red is not their collor)
http://www.jim-frizzell.com/norfolk_southern/03-11-01norfolk_southern1.jpg

Electric: Amtrak’s Acela Express
http://trains.harpblaster.net/graphics/acela.jpg

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My all time favorite has to be R.J.Corman’s.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-r/rjc9004ad.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-r/rjc2756abg.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-r/rjc1941ags.jpg

[:D]

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S.P. Daylight
G.N. Jade Green and Orange

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big_steam You going for the color or for the streamlining?

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Even though I primarily model the Western Maryland, whose paint scheme never set the world on fire, I have to give my vote for favorite scheme to the D&H. [image]http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/dh/dh18bbs.jpg[/image] Those PAs look so good, that I have stabled some for “excursion service”, along with a shark.
Hey, the PA’s did live in the WM Hagerstown roundhouse for a time after their time was up on the D&H, so it could have happened!
Besides, I just got my modelers license renewed yesterday!!![;)]

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My favorite paint scheme on a steam engine is the SP daylight and my favorite paint scheme on a diseal is the western pacific 7 uint.

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Delaware & Hudson lightning stripes
Amtrak Phase 5
Erie Lackawanna
Reading & Northern all schemes
Susquehanna

many others

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I think the C&NW’s paint schemes have always looked good - I like the way they kept basically the same colour scheme from their E-units right to the end (on their Dash 9s), and to my mind it suited pretty much every loco it was applied to. I have 3 locos and a set of bilevel cars in this scheme.

I also think the CB&Q’s passenger scheme as used on their E5s and later locos was superb. I would very much like to see these locos RTR in HO at a sensible price - Walthers make matching passenger cars but there are no locos to haul them (at least, I’ve not seen any except BLI, and those are out of my price range).

I also think the EMD Demo paint schemes have always looked good - I guess they had to help sell the locos, but they managed to come up with a series of schemes that suited the loco in question and were also unmistakably EMD.

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My favorite paint schemes are;
1-PRR
2-ATSF
3ACL4
4-GN

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Top Ten:

ATSF Warbonnet
UP Armor Yellow (the new lightning bolt and flag units are nice too)
Conrail Quality blue and white
SP Daylight
MoPAC Silver and Blue
GT Red and Blue
CSX Dark Future
D&H Lightning Stripes (there’s something about those that just capture my eye)
Conrail Blue
Amtrak Phase III and IV
SOO Line Hockey Stick

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The Rock Island in the bankruptcy blue, and the Iowa Northern in the bright yellow.