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Sacramento Shops back in May of 1990.

Adam

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This is the last time we loan that flour mill our switcher

hollywood

Hey let me outa here, somebody must have taped the door shut!!

Looks like the Southern Pacific was contracting it locomotive painting out to Earl Scheib's  :-)

For those of you who don't remember Earl Scheib's, their business was auto painting. They would promise to paint your entire car for one very low price (originally $19.95).... and when I say your entire car, I mean everything .... bumpers, chrome, side mirrors, door handles, tires ...... EVERYTHING.

From the Wikipedia article -

"Scheib was plagued with a high employee turnover rate due to the demands of attempting to paint up to five cars a day. The company's main criterion in hiring and promoting management trainees was based on sales skills only. Knowledge of auto body repair or painting techniques was not required. Trainees underwent a short training period and were then assigned to their own shops. Managers who failed to increase sales for three successive months were fired, regardless of seniority."

"Scheib's policy of one-day service and production line techniques flew directly into the face of state-of-the-art professional Auto Body standards and caused the company to become a national joke at the time."

I remember seeing some truly awful Earl Scheib paint jobs back in the 70's. That switcher brought back memories of those paint jobs.

Earl Scheib Wikipedia article

 

My folks got an Earl Scheib paint job on our '52 Chevy. What Earl money saved on masking tape, he lost in paint, which I swear was a quarter inch thick.

Otherwise:
"Jeeze, spray me with some SPF-50, or get me into the shade for cripes sake!"

EO

ESPEE  tries a early  " Stealth " Painting process

That is the switcher they use on the coast when its foggy

From a Bruce Springsteen song "Take it to Earl Sheibs, if you leave the windows down he'll do the interior for free..."

Fritz

Damn, somebody forgot to put the pigment in the paint again!

Marty

The primer has sun dried. Now bring it in for the red.

So that's what they look like before you bake them!

An unidentified white switch engine under Interstate 5

There is nothing to see here. Absolutely nothing.  There is no train here.  Move along now.....

News Flash....... The Southern Pacific Railroad today captured the alien stealth engine and have it contained in the shop trackage for further investigations. Word is that the FBI, NSA and other security agencies believe that perhaps the graffiti gangs were getting even for the regular paint jobs traveling about California.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

The morning crew must have been plastered, because tha's what they did to the loco.

-John

This is what happens when 2 railroads are at war and one of them surrenders!

The store was out of SP so we took the undecorated.

Home Depot ran out of every other spray paint color so the taggers got upset and bought a case of white.

A G-G-G-G-GHOST !!!

1:1 resin kit.  Rip off the lids of 2 boxcars and send in with $185K to your local hobby shop.