I have two of the Lionel Legacy L&N GP9's and am wondering if Lionel missed with its choice of the grey they chose. It is my understanding that the grey L&N used was called Confederate grey, yet the Lionel grey seems more like a light blue.
Did L&N use a light shade of blue on some of their diesels?
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The Lionel locomotives are the wrong color. They are blue or blue-ish. The road
did not have light blue locos, but the L&N did indeed use a Confederate gray; the gray and yellow were meant to echo the uniforms of the army of the CSA. I considered a Lionel L&N GP-9 briefly, as I remember the paint scheme quite well. But, not being a diesel guy so much, and not being a GM diesel guy so much, that wrong color put the nail in the coffin.
Weaver, though, gets the L&N Confederate gray right (maybe since Weaver is located not TOO awfully far from Gettysburg...?).
I hated to pass it up, really; I always like to support the production of items relating to my native South.
What's disappointing and confusing is the grey shown on the lnrr.org website shows most of the greys on their diesels as a bluish grey in many of its photos. I wonder if those photos were the sources that Lionel used for their color choices.
But even from the lnrr.org photos the Lionel "grey" seems too blue.
Photo of a GP9 from lnrr.org
Notice the blue tint in this photo.
I wonder if Lionel used photos like this for their "grey" choice.
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