How Many Different Road Names Share the Same Orange & Black As the Buffalo & Pittsburgh??

All of those railroads are indeed part of the Genoese & Wyoming (sp) group of railroads and all carry the same basic styling/colors.

Two more under the same corporation:

Portland & Western

Willamette & Pacific  

Bessemer & Lake Erie

Milwaukee Road

Indiana Harbor Belt

Rusty

Pictures...lol...pictures!!

We're all big boys here, folks can google the roads I've mentioned.

Rusty

WORE orange and black?   D&RGW diesels did, with emphasis on black for pre-war

and later, until the bumble bee emphasis on orange with black for later ones.

Maryland Midland is now part of the G&W railroad.  Switched from a beautiful Blue and Orange...to well....

Here are the new colors....

Have you tried searching that railroad pictures site?

railpictures.net

Pacific Fruit Express.  They had the cars, and two switchers!

Palumbo Brothers, LaVerde Underground, Orange Crush, Rock Road, Arrow Road, Arcole Midwest & Greco..Oh I thought we were talking about Italian Road Builders in the Chicagoland area??

Well Southern Pacific Daylight trains! 

Learn all about the Genesee and Wyoming here: http://www.gwrr.com/operations#center[]=19.973349&center[]=-162.275394&zoom=5

They even own railroads in Australia.

ARG !

Anyone want to take a crack at identifying the location and loco models?

I've changed the title to try to better capture the original intent, to focus specifically on this design scheme.  Here's another one, the Utah Railway Co.

I like this one!  What kind of engine is that, and where is this RR?

Down Under?

CSX ans Amtrak MOW?

It's an EMD GT26CW, basically a lightweight SD40 with only 22.5 ton axle loading to suit typical Australian mainline standards. When the transcontinental standard gauge line was finally extended west to Perth in the 1960's, these so-called "L class" locos were the first heavy-duty standard gauge engines for the Western Australia Government Railway. In fact they were the largest locomotives on any Australian railway at that time, not counting the isolated heavy-haul iron ore railways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR_L_class_(diesel)

The various Australian Railways used to be mostly government owned and operated, but are now mostly privatized with Genessee & Wyoming having a substantial involvement. It's interesting to see the same black-and-orange scheme in so many different places. ARG is Australian Railroad Group, affiliated with Genessee and Wyoming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...alian_Railroad_Group

Notice the dual gauge track in photo? The location is Windmill Hill Cutting in Western Australia, a rather long and deep cut. I camped there three days in 2009 to watch trains.

Okay, here 's another.  Yorkrail.  Never have seen this one in the handful of times I've been to York.  Anyone know whether this line passes by the Fairgrounds?

Closer to home, this is Willamette & Pacific at their diesel shop in Albany Oregon. W&P has since been combined into Portland & Western, all part of the Genessee and Wyoming family. Photos from 2004.

Yes, it does.  I've often strolled outside the Market St. gate at York early in the morning to watch a bit of the action along that line.

On Willamette & Pacific/Portland & Western at Albany Oregon in 2004, this #3211 loco has StL&A letters for St Lawrence & Atlantic. So apparently they sometimes shift locos all over between their different operations.

In one of my previous photos there is a #3205 at this same location, also lettered StL&A.

Black and Orange RFRX 1001. Rick Franklin Corp provides "railroad services" including derailment and car repair out of Lebanon Oregon. They aren't actually connected with the Genessee & Wyoming family except by rail.

Southern Pacific Holloween livery.

Southern Pacific early switcher livery.

The CF&E (Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern)  Has a couple of ex GTW GP40-2s that were recently painted in the G&W scheme.  The CF&E was part of RailAmerica, which was bought by G&W. 

Still see the red and silver units around.  The Geeps look sharp with fresh orange and black paint.  I'll try to get some pics.

Tom

When the G&W bought the South Buffalo Railway in 1991 the pic below shows the proposed logo. It was on their website for a number of years along with all of the other roads they had purchased up to that time. They never used that logo though except possibly one engine that was repainted at time of purchase. Instead the fairly extensive engine roster was lettered for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Not surprising as the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, NY, the primary reason for South Buffalo's existence, was winding down and producing very little product.

Pete

And you can also see it several times a day from inside the Blue Hall by looking out the windows facing Market Street.

Bill

Believe it or not, playground equipment on former railway land in Manjimup Western Australia shows definite influence of the Genessee & Wyoming loco color scheme. Probably because G&W is involved with various railroad operations down under.

It might seem like coincidence, but look at the two horizontal black stripes on the 'cars' and the mix of black-orange-yellow.

Add Ohio Central to that list since the G&W purchased them a few years ago.

P&W logo on loco, W&P on the loco shop in Albany Oregon, 2007.

A mix of W&P and P&W power heading out from Albany to Toledo, on the wye branching from the UP mainline. One GP39-2 is still in original Santa Fe colors. 

I know it was already mentioned, but here is a photo of the B&LE when I was at Oakmont C.C. last week.  

Andy 

Another Australia Railroad Group loco, this is a 42" gauge loco on dual gauge track in Western Australia 2009. DB/DBZ class, only 13 units built 1982-83, mechanically comparable to an EMD SD38-2 in terms of engine, HP and 6 traction motors. I think most of the tonnage on WA narrow gauge is grain for export. This unit isn't actually displaying a road name; it might have been traded off to another operator?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR_DB_class

New England Central went from this:

To this:

Jon

Any votes for safety being the reason for the orange color?

When viewing the various photos the orange certainly stands out in any environment.

The striping seems to be simple and less time consuming to paint than other schemes. Orange paint seems similar to red. The pigment holds up very well. So, two votes for cost and ease of maintenance.

From the home page "Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) owns and operates short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium."

I think they use the same paint scheme on all of the holding company's roads.

Jack

This is one of those rare changeovers where I like both the old and the new.  I could see picking up one of each at a train show, if I ever got so lucky, and running them together on my layout.  

Here's another one I had not yet seen....Central Railroad of Indiana.  I was even fascinated by the engine, a model that I had never heard of before:  the RP20D....sounds like a character from Star Wars.

Galveston Wharves is now a G&W property.  Guess the colours?

All medium size RR's prepared to be assimulated!

The First Coast Railroad (FCRD) operates on the former CSX Fernandina branch line.

As far as I know, they only have 3 locomotives.

This one was recently painted.

The Tallyrand Terminal RR operates in Jacksonville's port facilities.