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Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon?Date: 07/17/17 04:06 Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: santafe199 Maybe so! This elderly Rock Island geep, heavily tarnished with age spots is badly in need of a new suit. But it’s way too late to think about that. The Rock will be dead in 4 short months…
1. CRI&P 1226 sits idle in front of the depot/eating house complex in Liberal, KS on December 13, 1979. (Photo by James W. Watson) Thanks for looking back! Lance Garrels (santafe199) Jim Watson (UP6900) Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/22 20:40 by santafe199. Date: 07/17/17 06:12 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: GPutz CRI&P GP7 #1226 was built in late 1951. So that paint was 28 years old. Thanks for posting. Gerry
Date: 07/17/17 06:35 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: Bob3985 Unfortunately the ole Rock bled for years both in their paint as well as their capital. I did enjoy my 4 years there learning how to get things done on the railroad with not much to work with. It was good training.
Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Date: 07/17/17 06:36 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: LittleDoc Beautiful in it's own way! Thanks for sharing!
Steve Henderson NV Date: 07/17/17 07:09 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: cabman If you tried this on an HO model, people would call it overdone and you crazy! What a shame they let it go like that.
Date: 07/17/17 08:15 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: czephyr17 That photo says a lot about the state of the Rock - a proud railroad that just couldn't make it any longer.
Bob3985 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unfortunately the ole Rock bled for years both in > their paint as well as their capital. I did enjoy > my 4 years there learning how to get things done > on the railroad with not much to work with. It was > good training. Brings to mind the old phrase, that I often heard applied to the Milwaukee Road, "We have done so much with so little for so long, that now we can do anything with nothing." Date: 07/17/17 09:05 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: santafe199 cabman Wrote: > ... What a shame they let it go like that ...
You seriously need to change your perception of the Rock Island. "THEY" as you call the doomed Rock, tried valiantly to save a railroad that had been on an ultimately unavoidable death spiral for many years. "THEY" had very little & mostly no money for such frivolous things as re-painting an engine that was running. That money was needed for much more important things such as getting bad-ordered power up & running again. "THEY" desperately needed funding for right-of-way maintenance that never came. And "THEY" desperately needed funding so many other things that never materialized. (R.I.P. Rock Island, dec. 1980)... Lance/199 Date: 07/17/17 12:35 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: australianterrier GPutz Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > CRI&P GP7 #1226 was built in late 1951. So that > paint was 28 years old. Thanks for posting. > Gerry I believe that it was delivered in "Rocket". Jim Date: 07/17/17 14:01 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: SD45X Yup, Rocket paint underneath for sure. Amazing how the old paint held up so long. Dang nimbys!!
Give me Lacquer!! Date: 07/17/17 14:42 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: tomstp Most of all they needed the merger with the UP and the SP.
Date: 07/17/17 15:18 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: WrongMain santafe199 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > cabman Wrote: > ... What a shame they let it go > like that ... > > You seriously need to change your perception of > the Rock Island. "THEY" as you call the doomed > Rock, tried valiantly to save a railroad that had > been on an ultimately unavoidable death spiral > for many years. "THEY" had very little & mostly no > money for such frivolous things as re-painting an > engine that was running. That money was needed for > much more important things such as getting > bad-ordered power up & running again. "THEY" > desperately needed funding for right-of-way > maintenance that never came. And "THEY" > desperately needed funding so many other things > that never materialized. (R.I.P. Rock Island, dec. > 1980)... > > Lance/199 Lance, you're absolutely right. When the Chessie System took over the Rock Island between Joliet and Bureau, we took a road trip to familiarize ourselves with the newly acquired railroad. We found wellded rail laying in the mud that the Rock didn't have the funds to install. The failure certainly wasn't due to lack of trying, and the former Rock Island people that we worked with were for the most part very good railroaders. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/17 11:26 by WrongMain. Date: 07/17/17 16:58 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: ghemr Very nice photo and subject matter!
Date: 07/18/17 03:23 Re: Maroon Monday: Can maroon bleed thru maroon? Author: Evan_Werkema SD45X Wrote:
> Amazing how the old paint held up so long. Dang nimbys!! > Give me Lacquer!! A lot of the former Santa Fe GP60's are still running around on BNSF in their original coats of blue and yellow applied at EMD 28 to 29 years ago, and they by and large look a lot better than Rock Island 1226's pre-EPA paint job. BNSF 165 (ex-ATSF 4007) in this thread is an example (the letters were shaped a little different in EMD factory paint jobs versus repaints done at Santa Fe shops): https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4288462 |