After having Bernie Winkler "back-date" my Legacy L&N GP7 to black and yellow, I decided to ask him to convert a GP7 to NC&StL colors.
I had a Legacy Erie GP7 sent directly to Bernie to do his magic. There have been some hurdles making NC&STL decals for NC&StL road.
So I wait "patiently" for Santa...
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Which paint scheme? They had some GPs painted blue.
Tom D. posted:Which paint scheme? They had some GPs painted blue.
Yes, I had to choose between the pic of the blue I saw taken in Dec 1954 and the red as shown on #710 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
I went with red.
Got a pic from Bernie Winkler.
As you can see he has my Legacy Erie GP7 apart and sheet(s) of decals.
He is re-positioning the engineer to sit appropriately for short hood forward operation.![IMG_5067[1]](https://ogrforum.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/69425981588210845/filePointer/69425981592216728/fodoid/69425981592216724/imageType/MEDIUM/inlineImage/true/IMG_5067%255B1%255D.JPG "IMG_5067[1]")
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My first experience of Bernie Winkler's magic: Bernie painted my legacy L&N GP7 grey with yellow ends to the colors during the steam-diesel transition era colors:![IMG_4978[1]](https://ogrforum.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/69425981588210845/filePointer/69425981598637883/fodoid/69425981598637879/imageType/LARGE/inlineImage/true/IMG_4978%255B1%255D.JPG "IMG_4978[1]")
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I see Santa's workshop is busy working on my NC&StL #710
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"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... "
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