Favorite Scheme?

[CSX1702]

Okay, I'll give in to the foamer inside me for a minute. What is your favorite paint scheme on a locomotive?

Personally, I'll go with MRL. I love that shade of blue. And they usually keep their locos pretty clean so it always looks good.

PhotoID: 456245 Photograph © Robert Forsstrom

I used to the like the schemes the Great Smoky Mountains had on theirs like these:

I know this is a little quirky but I liked em'.

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and

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But then they went and did this. Now they don't match the cars or the scenery the railroad is famous for:

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and this:

PhotoID: 411888 Photograph © Nick McLean

[tbelton]

I wouldn't say they are my favorite but I do really like the NCDOT's paint scheme for our local Amtrak units.

Trey

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[CSX1702]

Like the scheme, hate the locomotives.

[Mark Rosnick]

Having grown up in Pennsylvania...I've always been drawn to the EL, Reading and D & H.

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[troy12n]

Favorite schemes:

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[CSX1702]

Originally Posted by troy12n

Favorite schemes:

Cllllasssyyy.

[Freericks]

Erie Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, and the Susquehanna yellow jacket.

[CSX1702]

Originally Posted by Freericks

Erie Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, and the Susquehanna yellow jacket.

Hadn't thought of those. Yeah, they're all pretty good.

PhotoID: 455481 Photograph © Jack M. Jakeman

[tbelton]

My favorite would have to be the old Virginian. Which obviously is also my favorite Heritage Unit scheme.

PhotoID: 357410 Photograph © Doug Wingfield

PhotoID: 389609 Photograph © John Dziobko www.godfatherrails.com

And the reverse scheme

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And the same location 55 years later in a wonderful shot by Samuel Phillips.

PhotoID: 446795 Photograph © Samuel Phillips

[CSX1702]

Wow, I had never noticed those 2 were in the same spot. And with the same house to boot.

[tbelton]

Originally Posted by CSX1702

Wow, I had never noticed those 2 were in the same spot. And with the same house to boot.

That is around an hour from me. Taken several pictures all around there and on the road that goes by that house. But, on that bridge is not a safe place to be.
Samuel has some guts standing there. Only about a foot between the white line and the bridge railing.