I own diesels in these schemes CB&Q Silver chinese red Black IC white orange Bown orange RI Red yellow Black N&W err...black WM white and red GM&O red and white Santa Fe warbonnet RDC This list does not include the older high flange stuff I own. I am planning on adding some other schemes to the layout. Perhaps some BN green and maybe some CNW. The way I see it, I am trying to recreate what one woiuld have seen in and around the midwest between the 60's and 70's. Lots of color for sure.
I've always been pretty hard-core L&N/Family Lines with MoPac a close second. However, I must admit after a couple of railfan trips up the hill to the Seligman Sub I find myself sketching new track plans for a 15 x 15 foot layout modeling double track between Needles and Winslow. I think I'm about to succumb to the siren song of ATSF/BN/BNSF motive power and constant parade of intermodal! In fact, I just bought my first piece of ATSF power. A Kato SD40-2 snoot. My willpower is weak.. so very weak.. Mike C Phoenix Az
Well, believe it or not as a teen I really liked UP. Yes really. Most folks here know that GN EB and CP Multi Mark now hold my attention. Beyond that most are aware of the possiiton of the managment of the Grey and Grandure: Rule 1) Rule 2)
My main line is ATSF 1979-1995; so understandably most of my line-up is blue and yellow, or silver and red. All so pretty. I've got a pair of SD26 all prepped to be the main yard switchers in blue and yellow. The plan states the main yard is a meeting place with BN, so there will be some green/white there, both hauling through freight on track rights; as well as some literal switching. And while that's all fine and good, it doesn't explain where this Southern Pacific engine snuck in from...
<font color="336633">I cant see me ever doing anything but the BN, I only have 2 locos that are painted for other roads (not including BN premerger patched locos) and one is in my second fav livery, a Canadian National RS18 in the black/light grey stripes. The other loco is a SP SD45, but this will be painted in BN as soon as I have all my other locos done....... so not for a while then.
I started with PRR. I built my new layout to be somewhere in Pennsylvania. The my wife got involved--a great thing! A generic "Downtown" quickly became Washinton Street, Boston. So my generic PRR branch moved to the Northeast, under the fiction that the PRR moved aggressively into New England in the 1950s. So now I can justify Boston & Maine and New Haven equipment--well, just sort of. But B & M diesels are sure easier to photo than black PRR (OK, DGLE) locos! And I can have a whole bunch of other roads on interchange/shared tracks, can't I?
