| Posted by Triplex on November 25, 2019 | |
This picture gives me weird mixed feelings. It's one of those color mixes that should nominally be interesting but doesn't nearly as much so as most others -- and it's not just because it's a 'less colorful" one, because I find the often-dull mixes of early Conrail, early CSX and early Guilford fascinating. And it's an "ordinary" consist because GP40s and B23-7s were common locomotives, nothing I'll ever be able to consider special. I was thinking recently about how weird modern railroading seems, and one of the reasons is 4-axle power not being common on fast and/or long-distance trains.
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Sometimes difficult to figure out why we like/don't like something. For me, KCS gray was kind of blah, and seemed like a 'how do save dough on painting' move. Same with NS, one of my least favorite schemes ever. Side note - lots of friends like the horsey logo, but I never have. Always thought it was weak graphically. BN green was just so 'everywhere' for so long, and GP40s look a lot like their giant fleet of SD40s, so not a favorite. though the green is growing on me now that it is just about gone. None of these schemes has much tie to history/previous schemes - just seem sort of made-up by current decision-makers with no nod to the past.
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| Posted by Triplex on December 3, 2019 | |
Clarification: I never minded NS black or BN green on their own. It's that *combinations* like this never looked right, compared to either colorful mixes like early BN or duller ones like early CSX. And that's what I don't understand about myself.
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