Interesting paint scheme...it looks good. Hopefully, the NFL players won't kneel when it goes by!
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The perfect locomotive! Congrats to Union Pacific & to Stephen McNeill for such an outstanding photo. PCA for me.
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well done to Union Pacific on unavailing their New SD7OAH 1943 Diesel Locomotive
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NFL players can kneel in front of it... Great job, UP - thanks for showing your support!
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| Posted by Tom on October 20, 2017 | |
Super patriotic effort, UP. (Appropriate comment, Mitch.)
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It is nice..but..how many know the story, that it represents a WW11 B-17? That airplane being named "Spirit of the Union Pacific". There should be, somewhere on the locomotive, an image of that plane, IMO. Having said that, it's wonderful that the troops are supported in this way by UP!
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| Posted by FSWood on October 20, 2017 | |
1943 road number brings to mind that last month, September, in that year was Allied landings on mainland Italy in WW2.
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| Posted by R_Rogel on October 20, 2017 | |
What was its original number?
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Totally agree! Thanks UP! You're (still) top class in my book.
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The original number was UP 9026.
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| Posted by K100DS on October 20, 2017 | |
I guess I'll be the lone voice of dissent. I do not think this is an attractive paint scheme. They're trying to cram way too much "stuff" into one paint scheme. A railroad the size of Union Pacific could have afforded to do multiple locomotives, one for each branch of the military. Slapping bits and pieces of them together just looks busy and messy.
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| Posted by FSWood on October 20, 2017 | |
K100DS, you aren't the lone dissident: I earlier decided to not speak negative about efforts to honor veterans since except for me because of my health there are 4 generations of veterans in my family from Grandfather to nephews. As for general esthetics of veterans locomotives, yes, to me most of them are just plain tacky. Especially Amtrak and Norfolk Southern, ick. I find the veterans' units I've seen to be tacky enough that I haven't mentioned them to any veterans in my family because I don't want to disappoint them with an ugly train with their name on it. Haven't mentioned them anyone else for that matter.
A legitimate question is, okay then, what would I say is a better way? At this point I have to answer that I do not know. But then paid professional graphic designers are more qualified than me to create such things. Whoever did create these has failed to appeal to my heart and has actually driven my heart away instead of pulling it in.
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| Posted by K100DS on October 21, 2017 | |
Thanks for your comment, FSWood. I'm glad it's not just me. My family is filled with veterans as well. The sentiment behind these locomotives is heartfelt and commendable, but the execution is poor. The front one-third of this locomotive resembles the "Pepsi Can" paint scheme of Amtrak's Dash 8-32BWH locomotives, and that's not a bad thing, but mixing 3+ paint schemes on a single locomotives is where it falls apart.
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Would have been nice if UP did an all camo locomotive similar to the Desert Storm SD40-2.
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What about a digital camouflage paint scheme? Just to be different than the Desert Storm loco?
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| Posted by Miguel on October 26, 2017 | |
Meh, I don't like it. Who cares? Veterans aren't babies and they aren't sacred. You're not offending anybody with your dissent. Think how you want, it's what makes America wonderful. Like others have said, there is too much going on here I don't even know what I'm looking at. And I'm sure it still runs like crap and smells like urine on the inside...it IS an SD70 afterall...
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