New MBTA paint scheme....thumbs up/thumbs down??

Looks fine to me.  Seems to fit the locomotive to a *ahem* "T."

 

Doesn't the "T" use purple on their heay rail anyway?  The ACL looked pretty good in purple...

Sure are wild colors, but in my opinion what should have been more important in their styling was,,,,,,,,how visible will it be in all sorts of weather conditions & low light.

The T has always used purple. It was put on differently on the Genesis.

Seems pretty hard to miss...

Rusty

Say, that's a loco Barney the Dino would like!

I had a friend who went to Boston.  Got me a gift.  The T shirt which said, "Someone went to Boston, and the only thing I got was this lousy T shirt".  The map of the T was on the shirt!

 

 

Well, not always, but you're right...purple isn't exactly new.  It's just this shade of purple seems a little more, I don't know, bright or neon to me.  I should have been more specific and referenced the overall design/color scheme rather than the fact that it's  purple.

Might be because of the contrast with the black.

 

Rusty

Thumbs down here... The locomotive is ugly, and the paint scheme doesn't help.  In my own opinion of course...

At least it isn't a grey ghost.

Hot Water, I'm curious, are there any published standards or requirements regarding train visibility, particularly the nose or tail of a locomotive?

 

Just for fun, I'm working on the design of a paint scheme for my toy train railroad. I'd be interested if there are any requirements I might consider for the nose and tail of the locomotives.

 

To answer the original poster's question. I agree, the colors are bright. It looks almost like a lightning strip on the side. If the Easter Bunny had bought the New York Central, we might have seen purple lightning stripes. Hot Water makes a good point, I'm not sure how this would look in low light conditions, the black would be hard to see, and I'm not sure how well the purple would show in low light.

Kind of looks like a cross between ACL and New York Central. I suspect the chose very vibrant paints knowing that they would quickly be muted with use. 

In the 1970's, the T began to color code their various services.  Somehow commute rail got the Barney color!

Very fetching, indeed. It looks like a packaging prototype for a feminine hygiene product.

 

JMHO, as usual.

Just as a point of information, that's not a Genesis. It's an HSP46 built by MotivePower, Inc. 

Bob