Has Anyone Ever Made These Rock Island Diesels?

I don't recalling seeing a set of F units in those colors. I have seen a real picture of the EX-UP yellow F unit, but never seen F units in the red and yellow scheme. I don't think MTH, Lionel, and Williams Have done a F-unit scheme in those colors.

I think those are E's.

marty got a set from MTH back in october, posted pics here

https://ogrforum.com/d...3182/reply/lastReply

Those ARE E units!

You guys are mis-reading the post.   I'm not asking if these are E-units!  LOL  I know they're E units.  I'm wondering whether anyone has made F units in either of these colors!!!    

I remember seeing Marty's E-units.  They're a great-looking set.

Did the Rock Island actually have "F Units" painted that way?

I used to commute behind (or in front of) #652 (pictured above) on the Rock Island Suburban line. I wish I was taking photos back then!

I'm not a Rock Island expert, but from what I've seen and read, the F's were out of the commuter pool by this time.  Photo's of the RI F's I've seen during this period were maroon with variations of white striping and grunge.

Rusty

Yes, there were Rock Island F units which wore this scheme:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...cture.aspx?id=354844

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...cture.aspx?id=489504

I spent some time chasing them around the Chicago area in '78 but I don't have those slides scanned in. These aren't my pictures so I didn't post them directly.

In answer to the orginal poster's question, I don't believe an O scale F unit painted in this particular scheme has been released.

Bob   

I've taken the liberty of posting a photo that Bob linked to. It's an F7. Thanks for the link, Bob.

This following site has an all-time diesel roster for Rock Island. It shows only 3 A-B sets of F7's, but Rock Island had a variety of other EMD F units.

http://thedieselshop.us/CRIP.HTML

If you're going to petition a manufacturer to make a Rock Island F unit, you might have to debate whether the original as-delivered scheme has more appeal?

http://chuckzeiler.rrpicturear...ture.aspx?id=1797835

Ace has a good point.  The "bay" currently has, as shown above made by MTH, 2 RI F3 A-units, 3-B units, and two FT ABA sets for sale.

Yes, MTH made the F-3s in freight colors.  I was pleasantly surprised when I

first heard the locomotive sounds. I expected the usual "Yard A" freight sound, but lo and behold it called out "Now arriving, the Golden State".  This was fantastic, because it was pulling the MTH 15 inch ABS streamlined "Gold Rocket" cars. Lew Schneider

The Rock Island had five major color schemes: Black/Red/White, Maroon/silver or white, Maroon/yellow, Red/yellow, Blue/white...plus some odd-ball variations.

I belonged to the Rock Island Technical Society for a number of years and their calendars were very good at displaying the various schemes.

I remember comments made back when those came out that MTH had put the wrong sounds in those engines. So your passenger cars have been converted to haul freight, presumably? 

Here's an all maroon passenger scheme as well. I've always thought that the Rock spent so much money on all their different paints, it's no wonder they went broke.

Rock Island E8A #654 and its accompanying E7B look very elegant in their all-maroon liveries as they board passengers at Minneapolis with the Twin Star Rocket on June 8, 1964.

3rd Rail is doing FP7s in Rock Island.  I don't remember the number, but the "Rock" had a decent sized roster of them.  The current proposal is to do the original as released scheme, but that could change based on what the market is asking for.  As with any Rock Island locomotive, after the initial painting, schemes were abundant and inconsistent. 

As to the numerous paint schemes, it is often said that the Rock Island painted their locomotives based on whatever paint was available at the local hardware store. 

Rock Island had 10  FP7's numbered 402-411 according to this roster:
http://thedieselshop.us/CRIP.HTML

I must admit that I've not seen photos of the freight units pulling passenger trains, but the Golden Rocket never hit the real rails either, so my operation is complete--the wrong engine pulling a train that didn't exist. For you Rock Island fans here's a photo of the Zephyr Rocket I took something like 60 years ago coming into St. Louis headed by the E-6 627. That loco had a hard life and was rebuilt after a major accident.

Lew Schneider

I apologize for the multiple photos. One of these days I'll understand the procedure.

Lew Schneider

Not an answer to the question, but this scheme is by far my favorite in the RI diesels.

Steve

I have painted that scheme before for a fellow modeler , I have the artwork for the decals , if you want a set done , I could do them , with the weathering too .

Very nice...and a nice looking train room from what I can tell.   

Steve - are those Pride Line FP7s?  I saw my first pair in real life just about two months ago.  Thought it was Marx at first.  Nice looking lithography!

This is the scheme that is being planned for on the 3rd Rail FP7s.