TT Scale. The Ideal Scale.

But Southersn RR Green is good, too!

maistto wrote:But Southersn RR Green is good, too!

The sylvan green used by the Southern was predominantly used only on passenger equipment, a few switchers - early ones in particular, especially those in the public eye, were green as well, but most freight locomotives were black and white with gold striping, sometimes referred to as "Tuxedo Units".

Another worth mentioning are the SW1500s that belong to NASA:

That's ^^^ dope.

ConducTTor wrote:That's ^^^ dope.

Can you imagine one of those NASA locos hauling cars of SRB segments on a layout?

AngrySailor302 wrote:

maistto wrote:But Southersn RR Green is good, too!

The sylvan green used by the Southern was predominantly used only on passenger equipment, a few switchers - early ones in particular, especially those in the public eye, were green as well, but most freight locomotives were black and white with gold striping, sometimes referred to as "Tuxedo Units".

Actually...

...the black/white "Tuxedo" scheme replaced the green.

Diesels - switchers were first - started out overall black, like steamers. After that, diesels switched to an overall green, freight and pax power alike, everything from 44-tonners all the way up to E-units. That green scheme was then replaced by the Tuxedo scheme in the 1960s.



Here's an SW in the green scheme. This was a repaint job at a museum, they got the lettering style wrong, but the scheme is overall correct.

Marquette wrote:

AngrySailor302 wrote:

maistto wrote:But Southersn RR Green is good, too!

The sylvan green used by the Southern was predominantly used only on passenger equipment, a few switchers - early ones in particular, especially those in the public eye, were green as well, but most freight locomotives were black and white with gold striping, sometimes referred to as "Tuxedo Units".

Actually...

...the black/white "Tuxedo" scheme replaced the green.

Diesels - switchers were first - started out overall black, like steamers. After that, diesels switched to an overall green, freight and pax power alike, everything from 44-tonners all the way up to E-units. That green scheme was then replaced by the Tuxedo scheme in the 1960s.



Here's an SW in the green scheme. This was a repaint job at a museum, they got the lettering style wrong, but the scheme is overall correct.

Huh.

Well I guess I might need to recheck the book I have on Southern freight diesels. It has been so long since I read it, that some data I have might not be in the right order. Kinda wish I was there to see that firsthand.

When I first got into North American prototypes, my area of interest was South Carolina, where the Piedmont & Northern and Southern paralleled each other between Greenville and Greenwood; the date I was looking at was 1951 - the P&N still had passenger interurbans and electrically-hauled freight, but also had received their first diesels... so that was what I was looking at for the Southern, too. The SWs (and other diesels of the period) were delivered new to Southern in this green scheme, which I think looks super sharp!

I often wish I had a time machine to go back and see all this stuff firsthand... would've been great to see the P&N's big articulated electrics, for example...

Well that was stupid. I thought I would add Southern to the poll and perhaps a few others. Turns out those edits reset the whole thing to zero. Please resubmit you votes.

Oops!

Oh well. Re-voted!

AngrySailor302 wrote:Can you imagine one of those NASA locos hauling cars of SRB segments on a layout?

Do you mean "SRB" as Solid Rocked Boosters, for spaceships? Or something else?
Nice idea to build spaceport in TT. But maybe Saturn V (or Saturn IB) would be better? ;)
We can construct Apollo-Soyuz Project in TT... ;)

Few days ago I got the idea to buy B-17 model in 1:130 and buid the Air Force base.
What about the USAAF painting for SW1200? ;)