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CSX announced a few months ago that it has adopted a new locomotive paint scheme to replace the now-familiar "Bright Future" blue-grey-and-yellow scheme. The main body color is a dark blue, the color of the nose and big initials on the side is a mustardy-yellow...cab roofs are also getting a coat of white, I guess to reduce temperature for crews working in the summer. Well, how do you all like it, those of you who've seen it? To me, it looks kinda tacky and garish, like a warmed-over version of the scheme that gives away the identity of the team who has run CSX for years now: C & O! hahahaha...Seriously, doesn't that new scheme kinda remind you a little of C & O? Maybe the colors will "grow" on me, kinda like SCL's did after awhile, but right now that new scheme just doesn't do much for me. Well,anyway, tell me what you all think...thanks Bud Leesburg, GA
Johnnynick Member # 2002
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I like the look of the scheme the few times i have seen it, even though csx only uses it to save money so they can eliminate the color gray on its locos
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CSXFANDAN Member # 1844
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New paint, what new paint? They all look the same to me, dirty, oh wait I did see a clean train that wasn't grey. <<<>>> Is that the new look CLEAN ?
dilly Member # 1427
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At least the colors are more festive than those the late Penn Central used years ago when they were on the skids and trying to save a buck.
They'd simply slop a coat of black paint over the entire engine to hide its old Pennsylvania or New York Central colors, slap on a white PC logo (often crookedly), and turn it loose.
Their trains always looked like they were headed for a funeral. Which, in a way, they were.
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conrailkid Member # 1898
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hate it, and you're right, reminds me of the last b&o scheme before chessie. also, it's scl that calls the shots. they say its a new image, don't look like conrail blue to me. also, it does save on paint. my suggestion to one of the bosses was to wash the old junk once in a while, you wouldn't have to repaint 'em.
jebradley Member # 606
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I don't too much care what color they paint on, it's the meaningless (to the man in the street) initials that bother me; might as well use any of our initials. Why not "DIXIE LINE RAILROAD COMPANY" ? They even own a good emblem (the old NCStL rectangular 'cookie cutter'. The "CSX Transportation" could be lettered above/below the logo, and keep the reporting marks - just a better identification! (Of course, it would look a little strange in Boston, Mass. !) Jim Bradley Hawk Mtn. Chapter Natl. Ry. Hist. Society
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