Re: [CBQ] Re: Modern Locomotive Roster and Numbering system

[Cy Svobodny <ctsvobodny@yahoo.com>]

Years ago Athearn  painted some F-7's red & dark gray.    They looked like a bad dream.   Granted their usual silver w/freight strip was always incorrect but Tyco did it too.   They both could have used a very light grey instead of silver and I don't know why they weren't challenged to do it correct back then.

From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Modern Locomotive Roster and Numbering system

 

Hey Lyle

You aren't the first one to make me cringe!!!! Somebody had painted up some Mantua Baldwin Sharknoses in Q freight colors at the Little Q swap back in the mid-sixties!

I would agree that the cab should continue the grey and stripes. 

On the other hand, might the Athearn Chinese Red scheme been applied to the F units?   It wasn't all that bad for a what might have been!

When I get back to my computer (I'm in Pigeon Forge TN) I will post a "real" bogus Q engine that Hol Wagner filled me in on

Best regards

Charlie Vlk
Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 10, 2013, at 8:06 PM, "ldd1117" <slyone@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

 

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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.
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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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