That Dirty New locomotive

They were on lease loan by UP or BNSF and came through the CA tunnels. that is why they are so dirty, They hadn't the time for a bath yet...

 

Couldnt have come through the CA tunnels...they where headed West :tb-wink:

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At first glance, it's not so bad,


but a closer look

 

Yes,that's normal road grime that every locomotive accumulates..

Here's a rag time locomotive.

 

That's normal road grime..The carbody is still crisp and clean not faded,rusted or filthy.

 

But...but...but...I thought "That Dirty New locomotive" is what we where talking about...hmmmmm.

BTW...'Road grime' is 'filthy'...yes/no ?


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'Road grime' is what I call light weathering around the trucks,sides of the fuel tank ,fuel tank ends and both pilots.

Here's examples of 'filthy' or as I call it extreme weathering.

http://www.nslocos.com/ns8899.html

http://www.nslocos.com/ns3171.html

Another form of weathering which IMHO would be hard to emulate:

http://www.nslocos.com/ns6140.html
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All to sadly many modelers doesn't see the big picture and ends up extreme weathering everything..I call this a holy mess of things gone wild due to a simple lack of study and in some cases misdirection.

I dunno but,I always had a keen eye for details even though I am not a-shall we say advance modeler since I am a very basic modeler? I see track as a model and all track isn't equal nor its ballast or in some cases the lack thereof.

As far as weathering another important key to correct weathering is a given locomotives era based on the modeling era..In other words one can't use a 2005 picture of a given locomotive for weathering a locomotive is being modeled in 1996.

Some may call that 'extreme modeling' or 'rivet counting' but,its not.

Its true advanced modeling at its best based on basic prototype knowledge..One doesn't even need to know a AFC boxcar from a SIECO boxcar because everything blends in and looks prototypical when cars,locomotives track and railroad buildings is correctly weathered for the era being modeled.

 

Still no match for what they did (as in didn't wash) back in the 70's: :tb-wink:

Danville Jct, ME: NERAIL The NERAIL New England Railroad Photo Archive

 

Bruce,Absolutely! However in this era one would need to study the prototype since some roads faired better then others to include roads such as N&W,Southern,UP,MP and SF.As far as the Chessie one would almost need to study each locomotive they want to model since some units was in better condition then others-even if they was painted in Chessie colors -early CR was a hodge podge of patched CR locomotives in several colors.

The 70 era modeler has his/her work cut out for them if they want to-shall we say closely emulate their favorite prototype?

 

Aren't locomotives inspected monthly and washed and serviced at least then?

 

The WP did the same thing with it's Cali Zephyr locos. What was really odd were the locos that didn't get washed, but had their trucks and pilots painted!