GM&O/RF&P???

[asciibaron]

what's the story here with the nearly identical paint scheme?  where they under the same control at some point or is it a stock EMD paint scheme?

[Bob Bufkin]

Never read anything about them being connected business wise.  Maybe just an EMD thing.

Did you notice the ex Alco trucks under the GM&O's.

[asciibaron]

Never read anything about them being connected business wise.  Maybe just an EMD thing.

Did you notice the ex Alco trucks under the GM&O's.

i'm guessing they traded in some of their RS-3 rebuilds.

[cv_acr]

Probably an EMD catalog style. That's how the Algoma Central and the DL&W used the same grey/maroon/yellow schemes; it was right out of GM's style book.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I have always wondered this too.

[Packer]

Probably an EMD catalog style. That's how the Algoma Central and the DL&W used the same grey/maroon/yellow schemes; it was right out of GM's style book.

That might explain why the CB&Q, UP, BN, MILW, and MRL had similar schemes too.

[cv_acr]

That might explain why the CB&Q, UP, BN, MILW, and MRL had similar schemes too.

Not for BN. That was created by merger of NP, CB&Q, et. al. That scheme would have been influenced by other stuff that had been running for years prior.

UP's had the same colour scheme since they first dieselized.

[davefoxx]

I believe that the RF&P and GM&O schemes' resemblance is because they were designs created by EMD. 

Take a look back at factory-painted covered wagons of many roads, and you will see a lot of other EMD-designed schemes with similarities.  My favorite detail is the horizontal line on a cab unit that ends in the arrow point (sort of like a fish hook) near the front.  On some roads, the hook was up, and on others the hook was down.

Dave Foxx

[cv_acr]

I believe that the RF&P and GM&O schemes' resemblance is because they were designs created by EMD. 

Take a look back at factory-painted covered wagons of many roads, and you will see a lot of other EMD-designed schemes with similarities.  My favorite detail is the horizontal line on a cab unit that ends in the arrow point (sort of like a fish hook) near the front.  On some roads, the hook was up, and on others the hook was down.

Dave Foxx

That was a part of the AC and DL&W schemes (which also shared identical colours) and also the GM F7 demonstrators. (Which I think were blue/yellow/silver). The AC never had any F-units in that scheme though. They dieselized with 2 SW8s and 21 GP7s.

[Mark5]

I loved the old AC scheme which was similar to EL's!

http://algomacentral.railfan.net/images/AlgoCenRy/153_2.jpg

http://www.20thcenturyhobbies.com/trainnut/ELmainpage/EL1240GP7longendsideviewnodate.JPG

Mark

[cv_acr]

NandW: Technically that would be the Delaware Lackawanna & Western, not Erie Lackawanna. The E-L did not exist in the 1950s; their paint scheme was derived from the DL&W's passenger colours after the DL&W/Erie merger.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=276548

[Mark5]

Heh, I was just saying, that is (was) the E-L scheme.