CSX P-51 Es44ac Desktop 02 by Don Gaiser...............P-51 Mustang Commemorative Locomotive.
Fanastic color scheme
Swafford
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I'm in for one!!!
Cadillac of the skies, now the rails.
But shouldn't the "Cadillac of the Skies" be remembered on an EMD (a General Motors division - at least for most of its corporate life) loco rather than on a GE?
D500 posted:But shouldn't the "Cadillac of the Skies" be remembered on an EMD (a General Motors division - at least for most of its corporate life) loco rather than on a GE?
D500,
That is exactly what I was thinking.
JohnB
J Daddy, you nailed it, no girls no go
Sweet! How about a P40 Warhawk Flying Tigers theme. With a huge shark mouth and eyes in front. And the camo pattern with just the three standard colors. The Expeditionary Force style star in back. Now you've got something. I was going to suggest on the real trains thread that UP consult Swafford for their next engine design. For obvious reasons.
A GE diesel loco does not in any way do the P51 Mustang any justice-especially if it was smoking or on fire !!
Another potential door stop, in my opinion.
One word (and don't forget this is coming from someone who's flown in many WW2 airplanes and is a huge WW2 airplane fan):
J Daddy posted:
It needs some girl art work on the side!
Actually, most fighters and bombers carried no markings on the nose and most of the ones who did only carried names. For everyone well-done nose art photo you see, there were dozens that were done poorly. that's why most of the nose art you see in books were from less than a dozen or so bomber/fighter groups in the whole war; the ones that had talented artists.
I think it looks sharp!
Ron H posted:Cadillac of the skies, now the rails.
I do remember the "Cadillac" line from Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" movie, but a definite thumbs up to Don Gaiser and his nice design.
I was watching a show about a raid in WWII where US troops and Filipino fighters freed civilians from a Japanese prison camp. One of the surviving US civilians was describing the loading of a group of Dutch nuns with big, ostentatious habits on their heads and in uniform, into an amtrack vehicle for a trip across a lake to freedom. On the side in big white letters was the inscription of the vehicle's given name, Impatient Virgin. He found that very humorous, I think it's pretty funny myself.
William 1 posted:I was watching a show about a raid in WWII where US troops and Filipino fighters freed civilians from a Japanese prison camp. One of the surviving US civilians was describing the loading of a group of Dutch nuns with big, ostentatious habits on their heads and in uniform, into an amtrack vehicle for a trip across a lake to freedom. On the side in big white letters was the inscription of the vehicle's given name, Impatient Virgin. He found that very humorous, I think it's pretty funny myself.
I'm sure the nuns were aware of the vulgarity of soldiers/sailors/marines by the end of the war.
As for nose art, some of the more racy stuff was supposed to remain "the theater" but eventually photos of the more questionable ones got back to the states and a couple of congressmen visited bases in England and saw stuff they didn't expect. Just google "B-17 nose art £5 With Breakfast" to see one of the more non-PC ones (I'm sure the forum mods wouldn't want me posting the image of it here. Itwasn't family-friendly).
Under political pressure, the USAAF put out orders against such displays on the noses of aircraft, and they became quite tame by around 1944 to the end of the war. The marines and navy weren't big on nose art, I think in part to restrictions on personalizing anything that the army didn't have. You don't see many photos of USN/USMC aircraft with elaborate nose art in WW2.
p51 posted:William 1 posted:I was watching a show about a raid in WWII where US troops and Filipino fighters freed civilians from a Japanese prison camp. One of the surviving US civilians was describing the loading of a group of Dutch nuns with big, ostentatious habits on their heads and in uniform, into an amtrack vehicle for a trip across a lake to freedom. On the side in big white letters was the inscription of the vehicle's given name, Impatient Virgin. He found that very humorous, I think it's pretty funny myself.
I'm sure the nuns were aware of the vulgarity of soldiers/sailors/marines by the end of the war.
As for nose art, some of the more racy stuff was supposed to remain "the theater" but eventually photos of the more questionable ones got back to the states and a couple of congressmen visited bases in England and saw stuff they didn't expect. Just google "B-17 nose art £5 With Breakfast" to see one of the more non-PC ones (I'm sure the forum mods wouldn't want me posting the image of it here. Itwasn't family-friendly).
Under political pressure, the USAAF put out orders against such displays on the noses of aircraft, and they became quite tame by around 1944 to the end of the war. The marines and navy weren't big on nose art, I think in part to restrictions on personalizing anything that the army didn't have. You don't see many photos of USN/USMC aircraft with elaborate nose art in WW2.
Just finished reading about 5 pounds with breakfast. Seam not only they missed that one. It returned to the states unaltered after the war. You could only imagine the German pilots reaction to some of the nose art. Especially on the plans shot down.
I must admit, I so wish I could have included at least a portion of an airfield on my layout as I could have done a good job with all the little details. But even a hardstand (the frying pan-shaped paved area planes sat on even in many stateside fields) in O scale would take up more than a few square feet, room I never had... 
