Nostalgia & History > C&EI 3 schemes, w/fine looking F ... another look

Three very different schemes for this not-so-big RR ... what do you think of 1407's scheme?
Photo by Dick Wallin, Dolton IL 10/60.

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A lot more than the following unit.  It appears to have the Jenks bug of total blue.

Any unit with Leslie air horns are winners. 

I always liked that scheme but am not crazy about the straight grab irons above the windshield.

Victor Baird

I like the colors but think the "eyebrow" over the cab window is a bit much. And totally with Victor on those windshield grabirons--blecchh! 

ExStarlightHog Wrote:
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> Any unit with Leslie air horns are winners. 

Well I guess if your a fan of Love Boat. 😋

I'll take the blue-and-orange any day, and three times on Sunday. Not too terribly many color images of that livery around. It took years of looking at later C&EI zebra-stripe Geep photos (while living in C&EI territory, and with an aunt whose home was right across the highway from its mainline) before I ever saw a blue-and-orange F-unit image.

Sorry, but the grab iron aesthetics are very incidental. C&EI was a very safety-conscious road. They're there where they are for a purpose, and I do not find them to be that intrusive.

A particularly nice Wallin image. Thanks.

MC



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/23 13:07 by ironmtn.

Yeah, but other roads had them curved to match the contour of the windishields.

Victor Baird


ironmtn Wrote:

>> Sorry, but the grab iron aesthetics are very
> incidental. C&EI was a very safety-conscious road.
> They're there where they are for a purpose, and I
> do not find them to be that intrusive.
>
> MC

One of the best paint scheme (the blue and orange)!

ExStarlightHog Wrote:
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> Any unit with Leslie air horns are winners. 


And Mars lights.

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Is that a tiny rectangular bug deflector above the headlight?
Fred

What  kurtarmbruster said!
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