Ironic that to escape the cold, it went to Siberia!
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| Posted by xBNSFer on February 3, 2024 | |
Interesting that all the PRR and NYC "heritage" units use their passenger schemes (Tuscan Red with gold stripes for PRR, "Lightning Stripe" for NYC).
The contemporary PRR freight scheme (which is to say that which was used on third generation diesels from, say, EMD 30-Series and GE U-Boats till the end), in particular, would make the NS scheme look "dressed up." It was basically all black, or "Brunswick Green" (which as I understand it was about 50 cans of black paint with one can of green paint added) with diminutive PRR "Keystones" on each end and one or two lost on the expanse of each side of the hoods (or on occasion on the cab side), and the cab numbers.
NYC's 'contemporary' freight scheme was a little more lavish, basic black with NYC "Cigar Band" logos on the hood ends, white frame rail stripes on the sides, and "New York Central" spelled out on the flanks, and the cab numbers. Sometimes a "Cigar Band" logo on the cab side was substituted for the hood lettering.
For all the derision laid upon PC's black paint scheme, when the full scheme was used (some ex-PRR units got the ""Worms In Love" on the nose and the "Keystones" stripped off in lieu of full PC garb), it was less spartan by far than the contemporary PRR scheme, and not much more so than the contemporary NYC scheme.
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This isn't the Horseshoe Curve; we're not in Pennsylvania anymore Toto! Nice catch Craig! Pretty wild seeing that scenery as a backdrop.
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