Just To Mess With people !

@Miggy, I can't see your pictures

@baltimoretrainworks I think you have created a Monster. I am having way too much fun with this!

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

@baltimoretrainworks I think you have created a Monster. I am having way too much fun with this!

The Jersey Central scheme doesn't seem that bad to me, and would have been historically plausible.   It would need something to break up the red around the ends though, but not so much that it ends up looking like a coast guard cutter.

Is this a template somewhere. You guys are coming up with some ugly paint jobs. What next nascar themes or hot rod flames 🔥?

Just don’t do a Thomas paint job. I think that would make the forum implode.

I think flames on engines are cool.   For precedent,  there's the WM fireball scheme

Although this is subtle compared to what I think you are picturing.

@MartyE posted:

Is this a template somewhere. You guys are coming up with some ugly paint jobs.

Go to Deviantart.com and search for Lionel GG1 there are a couple blank templates and quite a few "fantasy" paint schemes. Depending on your graphics package it is fairly easy to color them.

Jerry

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

I am morbidly curious to see what Joker or Penguin GG1 would look like....

@Mallard4468 posted:

Would the Penguin GG1 have umbrella-shaped pantographs?

Jerry

@MartyE posted:

Is this a template somewhere. You guys are coming up with some ugly paint jobs. What next nascar themes or hot rod flames 🔥?

Just don’t do a Thomas paint job. I think that would make the forum implode.

That sounds like a challenge...

Considering some of the goofy junk that Lionel has made recently, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to steal some of your ideas.

@Mallard4468 posted:

Considering some of the goofy junk that Lionel has made recently, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to steal some of your ideas.

If that "goofy junk" sells then more power to them.

@MartyE posted:

Is this a template somewhere. You guys are coming up with some ugly paint jobs. What next nascar themes or hot rod flames 🔥?

Just don’t do a Thomas paint job. I think that would make the forum implode.

If you want to make your own

@MartyE posted:

Just don’t do a Thomas paint job. I think that would make the forum implode.

@Mallard4468 posted:

That sounds like a challenge...

Now here's a really useful engine !

Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Now here's a really useful engine !

Jerry

LOL!  That's awesome!

@jhz563 posted:

The Jersey Central scheme doesn't seem that bad to me, and would have been historically plausible.   It would need something to break up the red around the ends though, but not so much that it ends up looking like a coast guard cutter.

I added white stripes to either side and increased the bottom white stripe by 2 pixels. I really like how this came out!

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Now here's a really useful engine !

Jerry

Hahahaha!!!!! OMG, Electrify the Sodor Mainline!  I love it.

@Allegheny posted:

This would be a sharp looking model - especially if done by 3rd Rail/Sunset with fixed pilots.

GG1s did not have fixed pilots....the P5 did....

@jhz563 posted:

Hahahaha!!!!! OMG, Electrify the Sodor Mainline!  I love it.

I actually see Gordon as more of a GG1 and Thomas more like a NYC S2.

Jerry

@joe krasko posted:

GG1s did not have fixed pilots....the P5 did....

Hello Joe, I've corrected my statement.  It was also noted earlier that it was incorrect.  Thanks for letting me know.

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

A GG1 in the black and yellow scheme of "The 48 Club." You already have stylish passenger cars, now you need an engine to pull them. I would think that this version needs to be a semi-scale engine.

It took me a couple of days to come up with all of these but here they are....

My preference is for the upper left one, simple, clean looks. My second would be #3 on the left.

Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

My preference is for the upper left one, simple, clean looks. My second would be #3 on the left.

Jerry

Jerry,

They all look great! I personally like #3 on the left and #1 on the right.

Bryce

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Jerry,

They all look great! I personally like #3 on the left and #1 on the right.

Bryce

Thanky Bryce !

Jerry

Bottom right is my favorite.  IMO, the 48 club logo is needed to provide context.

@baltimoretrainworks

I just looked over this thread and there are some serious omissions!  I don't see a single gg1 in the B&O passenger or sunburst scheme,  or (and may God forgive me,) a Reading bee-line service scheme!  Also that big WM fireball hasn't made a real appearance yet either.

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Now here's a really useful engine !

Jerry

Cheeky!

Steve

This thread is just about as cursed as the weapon customization in the most recent Call of Duty, and I love it. If I didn't have class in 30 minutes I'd try making a few in British paintjobs, how about one of these in LNER Apple Green or British Rail "Blue and Yellow"?

This thread gave me a chuckle...can you imagine if trains were like cars, and you had "hot rodders" 'customizing' the engines? That would be a hoot

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

If you want to make your own

Now all you need is a bar code on the center side panel...The Generic Central.

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BTW...Scanning this thread leads to a better understanding of the "GG" classification...

@bigkid posted:

This thread gave me a chuckle...can you imagine if trains were like cars, and you had "hot rodders" 'customizing' the engines? That would be a hoot

Why don’t railroads, in the US, paint their loks like those in some European countries? Some Euro loks have advertising for various things, products, travel locations, etc.

Steve

Yeah, interesting, now that I think of it. They have ads on the sides of buses in transit systems like NYC, but that never developed here with paid advertising on trains as far as I know.

There's been a few. Just recently one of the amtrak electrics was advertising a train simulator game.

@RideTheRails posted:

Why don’t railroads, in the US, paint their loks like those in some European countries? Some Euro loks have advertising for various things, products, travel locations, etc.

Steve

That's not paint, it's a wrap.  Basically a big decal.  Commuter agencies apply them to some of their equipment.

Metra 1.  Metra 2.  Metra 3.

Most European locomotives have slab sides allowing for relatively easy applications.  Trying to apply wraps (which are less expensive than painting) over hood units with all their handles and hinges would be very difficult and probably wouldn't last long as units are serviced.

Rusty

The Thomas one actually looks ...

Correct?

Is that the right word?

Out of all these schemes, that actually like it's workable.

How about an LIRR "Tichy" version?

@Arthur P. Bloom posted:

How about an LIRR "Vichy" version?

Well, as much as it pains me to say, since the LIRR was once part of the Pennsy, I guess this variation would just be classified as morally objectionable as opposed to the examples of outright heresy above

@dkdkrd posted:

Now all you need is a bar code on the center side panel...The Generic Central.

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BTW...Scanning this thread leads to a better understanding of the "GG" classification...

You mean like this?


If you scan it, it should say "GG1" (I am using code-128)

Bryce

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

The Thomas one actually looks ...

Correct?

Is that the right word?

"Cheeky", maybe?

Makes you wonder what facial expressions are on the ends.

On one end, that is.

The other end?...well...!

"Well, as much as it pains me to say, since the LIRR was once part of the Pennsy, I guess this variation would just be classified as morally objectionable as opposed to the examples of outright heresy above "

LOL. How about a compromise? A Tichy paint job, but an outside third-rail version?

Please do not attack me for the bad colors and horrendous font but this is a Great Northern GG1. MS paint can only do so much haha!



Bryce

Consider yourself attacked.

Go to your room, young man.