Model Railroading > Warbonnets: Faded and not

A new Athearn Roundhouse meets a weathered Kato on my SWP.
The Kato was a brilliant red and I wanted to tone it down a bit but my airbrush of a white/gray wash kind of got away from me.
So I guess we'll call this a contemporary image.
It is not really good focus, but for an i Phone grab shot it does show the contrast in weathering.

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I think #600 looks just fine and just the way things are today, sadly.

Nice job in both locomotives.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

cabman Wrote:
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> I think #600 looks just fine and just the way
> things are today, sadly.

Heck, it looks better than the 600s did 10 years ago, if not longer.
 

Also looks better than the real 600 does now; it's not even a Dash-9 anymore...

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=218794

Nice! You should mention to your track maintenance crew that they need to apply some ballast! 😉

I wrote that location of inadequate ballast down some months ago, but somehow......
Oh yeah, I decided to weather a locomotive instead.

Yeah, pretty much everything but the post-merger 700/4700s are looking pretty rough these days.  Here's a shot that I took of one of the 900s in Topeka last month.

- Jeff Carlson



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/19 17:09 by bnsfsd70.

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As I mentioned though, the 700/4700's look pretty great still, as is the case with this one I caught leading an O-train recently.

- Jeff Carlson

bnsfsd70 Wrote:
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> Yeah, pretty much everything but the post-merger
> 700/4700s are looking pretty rough these days. 
> Here's a shot that I took of one of the 800s in
> Topeka last month.
>
> - Jeff Carlson



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/19 17:10 by bnsfsd70.

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The faded red looks real good.  If you were to apply even a little rust and grime streaks like the fuel tank, trucks, and sill on Jeff's 934 photo, you'd really have something special there.

Jim