Model Railroading > A black widow at the crack of dawn.....

Hi all,

today I' d like to present a photograph of a SP EMD F 7 in the attractive "black widow" scheme, leading a night train into a brand new day.
The Genesis model comes from Athearn.

Many greetings and a relaxing weekend wishes

Franz

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Great photograph!

Cliff Rutherford
Grain Valley, MO

VERY nice! I like it!

Sure would LIKE to see more phots like this to wake UP the model railroading section!

Very nice, thanks.
TC

Beautiful, Franz.  Hope to see more.

Always thought that was a fantastic paint scheme.  Shame SP hurried to get rid of it.

Or sunset along the coast line.  My first reaction when I saw it was that I was standing at Surf at about 730 PM some fall day.
That low horizon with some cloud strata looks like the almost perpetual clouds off the CA shore in some seasons.
 

tomstp Wrote:
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> Always thought that was a fantastic paint
> scheme.  Shame SP hurried to get rid of it.

Four colors, a ton of masking and the very deep recession of 1958 is what killed the Black Widow scheme. Even back then SP was having to watch their pennies.

railstiesballast Wrote:
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> Or sunset along the coast line.  My first
> reaction when I saw it was that I was standing at
> Surf at about 730 PM some fall day.
> That low horizon with some cloud strata looks like
> the almost perpetual clouds off the CA shore in
> some seasons.
>  

or how about an eastbound approaching Gary back in the late 1950's on the Lordsburg Sub in southern NM with the Peloncillo mountains in the distance.