A PT Cruiser for the LIRR

Reading one of the threads gave me an idea. (Uh oh.) Since the LIRR supposedly is having problems with the DE/DM's, perhaps the LIRR would trade them in to GE for some Genesis DM's shaped like DL109's and painted in the NH Brooks Brothers livery. Retro. It might not make economic sense, but would get some railfan attention. Anyone else have any wild ideas?

how about a SD70ACe painted in tichy ? . . . hmmn. . . . * has idea *

would be nice if lirr got a genesis but it would be better of they painted it the WF colors, and whats a DL109?

a DL109 is an ALCo Cowl unit, looks like a snoot nosed E unit kinda

What are WF colors? The DL109 at first looks like a wimpy imitation of EMD's E units, but after a while one can appreciate its lines apart from EMD. It was more streamlined (slender and slanted) and had a 3 piece windshield.

Worlds Fair probly. .


theres a 15 i started painting. . . never finished yet tho
Mike Eby has a ton of paintable line drawings. . for those who wanna do diff schemes. . http://trainiax.0catch.com/mescaleloco.htm

Worlds fair is correct

Fully painted black, with orange stripe through window bands.. with dashing dan.

"ride the long island travel easy"
"Your steal through way to the fair gateway"

that slogan was on some of the MP75 cars also at that time.
any other cars(?)

yea i did mean wolds fair colors, a genesis painted like that would be nice to see.

i totally agree.

even a DE would look hot ot atleast a C3 made black with orange stripes

hehe.

It's not black, but slate grey for the Fair colours.

Mike

Mike, the MP75's were not full black?

from all the pics i have there black or very dam close to black.

It could have been that Pennsy Green, the really dark one that could be found on alot of its GG1s

World Fairs colours were slate gray with orange ends and an orange band between the ends. Here's a link to this great site for LIRR pictures.

Mike

http://pasquale.dhs.org/lirr/1960s/imag ... mage50.htm

Mike,

Is this black or slate gery? it looksblack to me, but i could be wrong
http://pasquale.dhs.org/lirr/1960s/imag ... mage75.htm
http://pasquale.dhs.org/lirr/1960s/imag ... age217.htm
http://pasquale.dhs.org/lirr/1960s/imag ... age218.htm
O dont know why they look black to be, but like i said it may just by my eyes.
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Trust me, It's slate grey.

Mike