Pennsy Cats Whiskers

I don't know what "covered wagons" you are referring to but, the photos of the earliest "covered wagons" from most of the builders did indeed have the multi-stripes join together on the nose and then drop down to a single point at the anti-climer. 

Don't I feel foolish ?   Googled Pennsy diesels and low and behold the stripes do come around and onto the noses of most of them.   It's amazing how much I don't know any more.  

Lionel certainly got it wrong with their version of the EP-5.  Not only were the stripes incorrect, but the locomotive is nowhere near a Little Joe Electric.

Sorry for the fuss.  I had better go back to sleep and wake up again.  Maybe I never woke in the first place....LOL

Lionel's "Little Joe" was based on the GE EP-5 for the NH.  PRR tested a motor, but did not purchase.  So Lionel blew it!

Original Lionel never called their EP5 a "Little Joe" in the postwar era.  Lionel/MPC started calling the EP5 a Little Joe for marketing purposes.

Also, neither Great Northern nor Milwaukee Road had EP5's.

Rusty

No Pennsy EP5 but the Penn Central did.

Actually most early "covered wagons" for the Pennsy had a single stripe?

The "cat whisker" front emblem I thought always refereed to the Santa Fe

J Daddy posted:

 

The "cast whisker" front emblem I thought always refereed to the Santa Fe

Actually, that's the "cigar band," "cat whiskers" refers to the original nose scheme:

Rusty

Thanks Rusty... I always flip flop the two...

Thank you for the education about discerning cat's whiskers from cigar bands. Admit I enjoy those esoteric details.

Penn Central got so lazy about aesthetics with their basic black locomotive schemes.

Ace posted:

 

Penn Central got so lazy about aesthetics with their basic black locomotive schemes.

Seems like the PC wasn't the only one:

Rusty

Yes and when I was a kid I thought the C&O was bad too...

Weaver E8 model.

Someone could probably write a book on "dip" paint jobs:

Rusty

Ironic that a railroad who constantly seemed to be in default, the New Haven, had one of the snazzier paint jobs. My dad worked briefly with them as a fireman after WWII.

Tom

PS- Dan, thank you for your service! 

Tom

the PRR originally maintained two paint schemes for the diesel and electric power:

5 stripe for passenger engines, single stripe for freight engines. eventually that line was  blurred (pun intended) and both schemes were found on both uses.

J Daddy posted:

No Pennsy EP5 but the Penn Central did.

 

A good example of how not to paint this locomotive.....