How many have custom painted their GG-1 to a whole different road name?

I don't have the skills, but if I were to try, I would do Reading.

Hello Chris. What a silly thing to do.

Gerry

Norfolk Southern or CSX since they took over Conrail. Or Amtrak Phase IV or V?  NJT rather than the plain black. 

Not mine, but I spotted this at an S Fest in 2016:

Rusty

Gerry; that NYC lightening stripe G is an absolute sacrilege!  😳

Curt

Sinful. Just sinful.

gmorlitz posted:

Hello Chris. What a silly thing to do.

Gerry

OK, this is serious.  We're now going to have to hunt you down like a dog.    Such sacrilege will not be tolerated!!!  

George

gmorlitz posted:

Hello Chris. What a silly thing to do.

Gerry

I knew I would hear from you on this subject!  I almost forgot about the grey lightning stripe G you have.       Now you guys don’t be to hard on Gerry Lionel sells what if fantasy paint schemes all the time.  

There's a few on this old thread - https://ogrforum.com/...int-schemes-thoughts 

...and I've seen a beautiful job done with Northern Pacific and Great Northern schemes - I thought it was a forum member but can't find the post.

This one is a classic ! 😂

This one is my favorite. Not mine. Can be found here - 

https://ogrforum.com/...st-coast-only?page=3

Not associated with the one above.  Here's what I did to a Williams shell.  Hopefully I someday find a cheap donor chassis to mount it on.

Bruce

You're all on my list.  Your photos are going to end up on milk cartons.    

George

GG-1 on loan to the Northern Pacific for testing through the Cascades.

   Bill T.

What?  No DT&I one for the period Henry and Edsel were playing electric choo-choo around Detroit?

brwebster posted:

Not associated with the one above.  Here's what I did to a Williams shell.  Hopefully I someday find a cheap donor chassis to mount it on.

Bruce

Beautiful well done! 

Beautiful workmanship and photos.  Thanks to all who posted photos.

Ditto!  I wish I had the patience and talent to do repaints. I have a few engines and rolling stock I want to paint for my railroad. I tried it on a couple pieces years ago and it was a disaster. They were relegated to static display on a back siding. 

Oh the humanity of it !   I think the PRR GG1 is so engrained in my mind as a Pennsy locomotive that I cannot even fathom the thought of it painted for any other road.  

That said, the repaints that have been posted by those above are magnificent examples of fine workmanship.

G3750 posted:

gmorlitz posted:

Hello Chris. What a silly thing to do.

Gerry

OK, this is serious.  We're now going to have to hunt you down like a dog.    Such sacrilege will not be tolerated!!!  

George

An OUTRAGE!  Plasphony plain old plasphony!  Penn Central was bad enough but this is...words fail me.     I am going to find a Hutson and paint it Tuscan and put Pennsylvania on the tender. ... Then take it to the range.

John, I'm a Philly boy even though I've worked in NYC the last 40 years. Do what you want with a Hudson. I have a tuscan K-4, and it's not bad. But not as pretty as a Hudson, and a tuscan one would be nice, but probably not as nice as one in a Lackawanna paint scheme (I'd say Santa Fe, but Ben would probably banish me).

My engines were painted by Jeff Sohn, who is a Forumite. I don't know if Jeff paints engines anymore (I do know he stopped at one point), but he did a great job for me. Both GG1's are MTH premier engines. The picture of Mike holding the pink GG1 was taken at Marty Fitzhenry's house, probably about 10 years ago. That was a time when Mike still said he was not going to do "fantasy" engines. He really had a look of incredulity when he saw it. I do like these engines.

Gerry

Here's my Williams GG-1 done over in LIRR orange and grey

I gotta say that NYC Lightning Stripe scheme really looks good. 

IF I COULD A TEXAS SPECIAL WOULD BE ON TOP OF MY LIST.

GG1GUYY

I love this thread.  Garry's engines always fire up the Pennsy crowd. The other schemes re equally as nice but not as much of a threat as the lightning stripe.  Bruce that Santa Fe GG1 looks like it's coming fast, no matter which end is in the led.

These are the colors i’m going  with. A kind of  “What if” my local Commuter MBTA had a GG1 in the fleet.  Not sure how I want to lay it out yet? 

Chris, how about either of these schemes with the black roof, and possibly the nose with silver side, the gold striping and purple inside the strips, where these say Pennsylvania so that the gold stripes break up the purple band?

coach joe posted:

Chris, how about either of these schemes with the black roof, and possibly the nose with silver side, the gold striping and purple inside the strips, where these say Pennsylvania so that the gold stripes break up the purple band?

Great idea Joe but i’m Not that good with stripes. If I could do what you did with the images you posted I could experiment with the colors I’m thinking about. Any other suggestions would definitely be appreciated! 

From a old Forum post a few years ago:

Marty

Lot's of good work on display. I'm not much on fantasy schemes, but you all did them well.

Chris, I can't take any credit for those sketches, I found them on internet.

brwebster posted:

Not associated with the one above.  Here's what I did to a Williams shell.  Hopefully I someday find a cheap donor chassis to mount it on.

Bruce

That one looks so much better than the ATSF one above.

Chris Lonero posted:

brwebster posted:

Not associated with the one above.  Here's what I did to a Williams shell.  Hopefully I someday find a cheap donor chassis to mount it on.

Bruce

Beautiful well done! 

Boy you're not kidding!  That is really a beauty!!

I now understand why they used to burn heritics at the stake... break out the torches and pitchforks  

In keeping with the season (and as I am currently watching the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol), to paraphrase Ebineezer Scrooge, anyone who would adulterate a beautiful GG-1 in this manner should be boiled with his own smoke fluid of choice and buried with a stake of railroad tie through his heart!!!

when I saw the np,i just had to have one,,,,then I saw on esay,,the southern pacific one ,it is one of my favs 

I told a friend who believes a computer is a tool of the devil that the OGR forum had a tread about GG1s painted in other roads other then the PRR.  My friend after hearing this news suddenly turned pale then red, and snorted out the following. I am going to tell the wife to put a Italian/ Polish hex on them( he claims his wife is a Witch,) I think he said Witch,  and turn their GG1s into puddles of metal.

I said great idea!  Tell her to do the same for all gauges also, and corrode all their track while she is at it. I think that should fix their cabooses

There has been legislation proposed in Pennsylvania, to make it illegal to paint them anything other than DGLE or Tuscan!

Simon

Simon Winter posted:

There has been legislation proposed in Pennsylvania, to make it illegal to paint them anything other than DGLE or Tuscan!

Simon

I agree!

New York Central! NEW YORK...Somebody get a rope.

Chris,

You could always paint those GG1's into sports team engines. Just don't paint one in green for the NY Jets as it will derail every time you run it!

But seriously, you can paint one in a sports team. I do shows and run the Jets engine with the cars. Amazing how many folks comment on the sports ones than the regular engines/rolling stock.