Maybe just a little influence from the D&RGW paint scheme.
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Going to be interesting to see Rio Grande in Pennsylvania! A bit over the top but kudos to the railroad for putting this much work into a paint job.
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Wow, I thought it was the UP 1989 at first! Seems a little chaotic on that little engine..
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Great design!
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LOOKS as if it SHOULD be SOMEBODY's "Heritage Unit." Will look REALLY SHARP when completed.
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Jeez, are all the shortlines around the Great Lakes going DRGW? First the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and now the Pennsylvania Northeastern?
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I can only think of one other railroad that would be as good or maybe better to copy than the D&RGW and that would be the AT&SF warbonnets.
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Sorry but this is as fugly as that warbonnet disaster the INRD tried.
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Hopefully this means this cool engine has a lot of years of working in it's future. The same goes for that old curved-cab C32-8/C39-8? GE bhind it. I hope that not all of those will go to scrap.
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However, the cabin with black strips over yellow is looking fantastic. But, the silver colour on wheel-sets looks quite odd.
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All those strips must have driven the painter crazy. Maybe that's why it isn't finished.
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But isn't it also creative experimentation? Some will work, some won't but unless the artists are allowed to create, the world is left with boring.
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Thanks for posting Dale. RCTHS 1628
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I hope they have lots of masking tape if they plan to use that scheme on all of their locomotives...
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I dont live in that part of Pa & will probably never see any of these loco's, but I learned many years ago that "copying is the the greatest form of flattery"
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Clearly few viewers on this site are familiar with Texas & Pacific's "Swamp Holly Orange" scheme delivered on its GP7s and GP9s. This scheme clearly mashes that together with the UP's DRGW heritage scheme. . . to drastically busy and graphically horrid effect! Sometimes, simple really is best.
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