BurlingtonNorthern
New Member
When Amtrak was first formed in 1971 they lacked the operating capital necessary to repaint the widely varied fleet of passenger equipment they inherited. Thus, from 1971 to about 1980, Amtrak operated “rainbow trains” consisting of a mix of inherited equipment in its original paint scheme (most of which still had its original lettering and logos) and a small smattering of Amtrak equipment.
I’m thinking about building the Empire Builder which I have photographed being pulled by a forward facing BN E8A, GN sky blue FB, an orange GN FB, a rear facing BN F7A, a forward facing CB&Q FA, and a Northern Pacific FB in that order. The train itself, which is captured in several photos consists of nothing less then a BN baggage car, GN blue baggage car, coaches lettered for BN, GN (orange), GN (blue), UP, NP, Amtrak, an Amtrak dome car, and a GN orange beaver tail.
Unfortunately, every time someone buts together a mixed passenger train (usually because they don’t have enough cars to create a single uniform train) they end up looking kind of silly.
By uniformly weathering non-uniform passenger cars would they look more realistic running together???
Here are some pictures of Amtrak "Rainbow Trains" running on BN lines:
http://www.umcycling.com/am7bn338mixdfld773w.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/am7gnunits773w.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/gndomesrainboww.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/amtjwr372w.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/am7rainb773w.jpg
I’m thinking about building the Empire Builder which I have photographed being pulled by a forward facing BN E8A, GN sky blue FB, an orange GN FB, a rear facing BN F7A, a forward facing CB&Q FA, and a Northern Pacific FB in that order. The train itself, which is captured in several photos consists of nothing less then a BN baggage car, GN blue baggage car, coaches lettered for BN, GN (orange), GN (blue), UP, NP, Amtrak, an Amtrak dome car, and a GN orange beaver tail.
Unfortunately, every time someone buts together a mixed passenger train (usually because they don’t have enough cars to create a single uniform train) they end up looking kind of silly.
By uniformly weathering non-uniform passenger cars would they look more realistic running together???
Here are some pictures of Amtrak "Rainbow Trains" running on BN lines:
http://www.umcycling.com/am7bn338mixdfld773w.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/am7gnunits773w.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/gndomesrainboww.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/amtjwr372w.jpg
http://www.umcycling.com/am7rainb773w.jpg