[CBQ] Re: Modern Locomotive Roster and Numbering system

["ldd1117" <slyone@ix.netcom.com>]

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> 
> I am using the Chinese Red on all of my low nose units and maybe the SD75 
> series units, but all GE wide body units will be in the Blackbird scheme 
> similar to Intermountain's version. the black looks so well on the wide 
> bodies.
> 

Dwight, I hope you don't mind a suggestion on the blackbird scheme as its 
applied to wide body cabs. I'd like to recommend taking the Intermountain 
scheme and making it a little bit more correct (I can see Charlie V grimacing 
already!!  LOL)  They left the entire cab black, I suggest taking the gray and 
the yellow/red striping around the cab. This is the way the real blackbirds 
were painted. A dozen years ago when the Rail Power SD90MAC was a new release I 
did a Q blackbird with one. For those that consider this subject blasphemy, 
follow the links at your own risk  :) , but here are a couple of (not very 
good) images of my take on the Q in the present day.

Lyle

p.s.  Charlie V has seen this in person and he didn't fall over dead, so they 
can't be that sacrilegious  <chuckle>

<http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt307/l_dowell/miscellaneous/03040016_zpsdbf7d5b9.jpg>

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt307/l_dowell/miscellaneous/sd90_debut_zpsb7e8ae56.jpg



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