Colorado Bi-Tanics painted in ICG

newkirk wrote:"I never expected to see them pain stainless steel though. Those cars look sharp!"

I don't think they were painted. Take a look at buses and subway cars with vinyl wraps on the entire side of the body depicting ads.

I'm sure those ex-NJT Comet 1's got the same treatment. painting is expensive and there's the issue of paint adhering to stainless steel.

I think they were wrapped. It's probably cheaper.

I think the ex-NJT Comet 1s were brushed aluminum, not stainless steel.

Its paint.

They use portable stairs for loading, or an adjacent car with trap steps.

LIengineerBob wrote:I will agree with Dutch.....defiantly looks like paint, not a wrap. The car looks too "perfect" to be a wrap.....especially on the ends. I wonder how long the paint will last on the stainless though?

paint would last pretty good on stainless after all it took a lot of labor to take stripes off of the M1 and M3's of LIRR

That is a really smart looking paint scheme. And the second time I've seen Thomas pull ex-LIRR consists.

The spear couplers were replaced with H-tightlocks before the cars (two pair so far) left Torrington, CT. The ICRR colors look good on those things. Ed Ellis, Iowa Pacific owner, is a Chicagoan and IC fan.

Are the other 8 cars still stored on Naugy ?

I put a "shadow" topic under museum railroads; moved the topic over, moved it back.

The owner of Rio Grande Scenic / San Luis Rio Grande (a.k.a. Iowa Pacific Holdings) is an ICG fan.