How about posting photos here of custom paint schemes?

Northern Pacific GG-1 by Jeff.

 

Cmon Steve  You know I have those same U33's

Here are some more

Jeff Sohn custom painted and lettered an Atlas RPO for me, to go with my scale Polar Express...

 

 

 

I added a crew of elves to sort the mail...

 

Basket case Lionel 2056 as Reading T-1 No. 2124. The front and rear of a 1666T tender was added to another 1666T to make the long, graceful tender. Runs like a Hamilton watch.

The G motors are owned by Gerry Morlitz.  They was painted by Jeff Sohn.

 

 

 

 

For my Auto-Train project:
MTH (also Williams) Genesis, formerly Phase III, and auto-train style autoracks (formerly fictional CSX):


---PCJ

A Hogwarts repainted as a BR Hall Class.

I see Marty posted the GG1's Jeff Sohn did for me. I am very pleased with them.

 

I am thinking of having an Erie-Lackawanna done. I had stayed away from that because it is "Ben's RR", but now that he has ripped off my avatar approach by having a grandbaby in his avatar, the gloves are off. It is mano-a-mano, Ben.

 

Gerry

These Shawmut Line Diesels were done some time ago by Larry Eyman.

I had Jeff Sohn do some work on this paint project.  I did a lot of assembly, handrail, grab iron, and detail parts.

I ventured out on my own on the last two.

I have two more yet to be painted in Montour black.  Hopefully by spring. The Red and Yellow are from Atlas as the units were painted from EMD 1953/1954. There were (9) number 231 through 239. The second Repaints were done 1975 and 76.

Here is LIRR C-420 Jeff did for me

Erie RS-3's

 

I still have to install the other three marker lights.  This was an old Lionel horizontal truck motored RS-3 (Santa Fe 6-18803) that's been kit bashed with detail brass castings and hand made brass railings.

Beep by Jeff Sohn in McGinnes colors.

 

Wow, some pretty cool pics on here!! Thanks to everyone for posting their pics!

Jeff

These two Alco PA units started life as Lionel Santa Fe Four motors total - Repainted by Jeff so I could pull my K-Line 18 "Canadian Pacific set (8 cars total) - Enjoy

 

Here are some custom Freight cars as well as locomotives that are in my collection! Enjoy!

here is a weaver U25B I stripped, redetailed and painted. The bug eyes are made of 0.40 styrene while the light area is tube styrene. The sunshades, and antenna are as well evergreen styrene modeled by me. The side mount bell is a atlas GP35 part, while the horn and wipers are precision parts. The paint is floquil engine black for the frames, fuel tank and underbody. floquil reefer yellow for the front and rear, scale coat CP rail red mixed 80-20 to white. decals are made by me and printed by modernrailgraphics. The finish is testors glosscoat mixed 85-15 with dullcoat, the finish matches MTH very well as well as lionel.

Seen before....but I consider it custom as it's a fictitious scheme for a CSX loco.....

I made the decals myself as I couldn't find the correct CSX decals.....and while I was at it added the Chessie 'C'. Duplicolor and Tamiya paints. Note I also fix the fuel tank and a few other small details.

Subtle.  I like it.

I enjoyed custom painting Marx E7 diesels.

I started with a MTH Twin Cities & Western GP20 and turned it into a Texas & Pacific GP18. modified the body by removing the turbo exhaust stack and adding twin exhaust stacks in proper place, added roof top bell, grad irons, Mars headlight housing, nose headlight all from a Red Caboose geep parts tree, decaled with Micro Scale T&P set.

(image also shows  a stock MTH T&P GP9, old PS1)

Dan 

Here are a few we've had painted over the  years

 

The MoPac and Santa Fe freights were originally Lionel Santa Fe  2353s and 2343s done by Nostalgia Train Works 25 years ago. 

 

The D&RG 'Aspen Leaf' PAs I did myself using a Willaims model and added scratch-built fuel tanks to give a more massive appearance rather thna the 'high-water' look of Willaims diesels. There is a B unit also.

 

The Southern E6 No 2800 was a Lionel Burlington E5 I picked up on the bay.

 

Also a pre-war Lionel 224E restored by Forum member jumijo (great job!)

Need to find a tender for this beauty.

 

These help give the layout a little more variety on the roster...

 

 

 

Here is an inexpensive Atlas caboose. I replaced the trucks with die-cast, weighted the inside and put in new windows. I painted the car with camouflage paint.

 

 

 

 

WOW Dave - that's a such a vast improvement!  Great job.

Here's a few shots of my custom PRR items.  (way before Lionel did them)

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some Husky Stacks in J.B.Hunt Jeff did for me.

 

 

Joe B

 

 

 

Here is my SD70M is the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad livery.  Matt

Some images of my freelance roadnames. (Warning---S Scale content, but freelance paint transends scale)

 

Seattle Tacoma & Portland  FP7's:

 

and GP9

 

Olympia Railway  S2:

 

Oak River GP35's (an HO club I used to belong to.):

 

And my current road, Kansas Grain Belt RS3:

 

Rusty

Wow talk about a cool blast from the past! Thanks so much guys for the great memories!  I love these custom paints.  You really made my day! Thanks for posting such great pics!

A Canadian National K-Line pacific

 

 

A Rutland  Railking RS-3

 

 

 

Sperry rail car from a Railking doodlebug.

 

Southern Pacific repainted 57 foot reefer... Car started as BNSF, I disassembled the car and painstriped. The car was painted with testors white and scalecoat reefer orange. It was decaled with Champ decals and sealed with testors 80%gloss to 20%flatfinish.

Weaver un-decorated B60b I painted up for the Penn Central. Really wish Weaver would make an official one.

 

 Pennsylvania PS-2 covered hopper and a 50' single door box car done by Weaver. These two freight cars were always two of my favorite cars that they done.

 

 

Greensboro's 0-6-0 Passenger Yard switcher as assigned by Spencer Shops in 1950. Painted and decorated by Jeff Sohn. Southern Railway's passenger yard shifters typically carried the same trim and decoration as their passenger engines.

My MKT (Katy) Trainmaster FM custom pained and finished by Jeff.  The icon Texas Special star is on the nose of the FM.  He did a great job.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

 

 

Here is my SD70M painted in the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad livery.  Matt

Here are Two Coca Cola Engines I Did for my Wife's Railroad Consists

 

 

Original Williams 4-8-4 Daylight GS-4 Custom painted and modified with Led Headlight Blinking Mars Light and Fan Driven Smoke unit as well as Backup light in tender and Tender marker Lights

 

This is her Scale 0-8-0 Engineering Sample When purchased was No paint or Decals  Custom Decals and Paint to put infront of her Coca Cola passenger Cars from K-Line and I also took a set of Williams Passenger Cars and repainted them and Decaled them for Coca cola so the wife would have a Complete Passenger consist

"Torpedoes be d****d!  Full speed ahead!"  One thing I discovered on this forum, first

in Plasticville "bashing", and then, as on this thread, that nobody was terrorized by the money ogre, "collectibility".  I have proviously posted my home road colors of aspen yellow and spruce green on assorted kitbashed cars, rail buses, and gas electrics, and most recently a Lionel 0-8-0 (with others to follow).

Very interesting, and, encouraging.