Kettering GOG show, Saturday 5th March 2011

[Phill Dyson]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.......................MAROOOOOOOOOON  8) 8) 8)  ;D

Phill ;D :wave:

 

[lancer1027]

Phill, i think you've typed it wrong mate it should be spelt BLUE

Rob :wave:

 

[Phill Dyson]

I will not mention the fact that I would quite like a maroon Warship.........oops I just did ;D

Phill  :wave:

P.S. It could have been a lot worse Rob, there was also a couple of Hoovers for sale equally cheaply too..........I do have some standards ;D

 

[lancer1027]

Phew !! I'm glad about that mate. I think i can just about get my head round " other colours " on HYDRAULICS ;D, because they are the best loco's but english electrics and especially hoovers :vista: :vista: , i dont think i would have recovered from that. Glad you had a good day,

Rob :wave:

 

[28ten]

I will not mention the fact that I would quite like a maroon Warship.........oops I just did ;D

Phill  :wave:

This boy will go far    double headed maroon warships  :scratch:
Im itching to do d1015 mfyp as well

 

[iploffy]

He's at it again Macaroon crazy Phill I thought you couldn't drive buses if you where colour Blind, at least the Hoovers only appeared in Blue and we on the WCML had worn them out BEFORE we gave em to you Pipe work and all

Ian

 

[Jordan]

C'mon ladies, stop fighting... :

We all know Westerns looked good in any of the liveries they carried, and so did the other hydraulics, so any layout cannot help but be enhanced by the appearance of a Hydraulic on it, whatever it's colour.
Now pack in the squabbling.  :vista: Save that for Diesel Electrics, which should only ever be done in BLUE, by Law, unless they're non-British prototypes, in which case the preferred scheme should be White and Red. 8)

 

[iploffy]

your being very contentious Jordan where were you when this whole Maroon thingy raised its head in the first place I feel let down by all true BFYE boyo's sad and dejected to think that beautiful loco's were disfigured by hideous colour schemes when they first came out even though they were only practicing painting we all know there is only 2 colours (not including the underframe)any way what were those other shades of BR blue you mentioned

Ian

 

[iploffy]

This boy will go far    double headed maroon warships  :scratch:
Im itching to do d1015 mfyp as well

Who rattled your cage anybody would think you owned the website

Ian

 

[iploffy]

And further more keep it up and I will go to the corner and cry

Ian

 

[Steph Dale]

...unless they're non-British prototypes, in which case the preferred scheme should be White and Red. 8)

Eh?  Since when did the SP paint anything red and white?  Red and grey, yes; red and orange, yes; even red and black but red and white...??? 

Oh hang on.  :scratch: Nope - thought I had it for a moment there... 

Steph

 

[iploffy]

Don't you complicate this any further than it already is there is only one true colour blue with differing shades and tints giving subtle changes in the look and the visible spectrum seen by the looker

Ian

 

[Steph Dale]

Don't you complicate this any further than it already is there is only one true colour blue with differing shades and tints giving subtle changes in the look and the visible spectrum seen by the looker

Ian

Ian,

Boston and Maine?  Santa Fe?  Oh Bu88er, I give up; I'm lost...

Steph

 

[Jordan]

Eh?  Since when did the SP paint anything red and white?  Red and grey, yes; ....

It was precisely because the SP painted their locos Red & Grey that the SOO LINE repainted it's locos Red & White...!!! the reason being:- look at any monochrome photo of a Red/Grey SP loco and spot the difference between the colors ... they are almost the same shade of grey!!! No mistaking the shades on a Soo engine :scratch:

Anyway we must stop this as poor ol' Iploffy is having a nervous breakdown just at the mere hint that other Railway colours besides BR Blue are available; he'll collapse completely if he realises that other Countries also have trains as well, and that some of us are actually interested in them...

Maybe this'll help him feel a bit better; my latest area of interest Stateside - some nice BLUE engines of Progressive Rail, Inc;...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... ?id=296391

They don't have yellow ends, of course, since they have retina-searing headlights and ear-splitting air-horns to do the warning, instead of a patch of yellow paint.... : ;D

 

[marsa69]

The closest a blue loco should ever come to a maroon livery is when it starts to rust! 

 

[phileakins]

Just to up the ante - I was perusing some 1960's Railway Modellers this morning (as you do) when I came upon a piece about the new Westerns - colour? ....... sand!  ;D

I'll creep back into me corner now - move over Jordan.

Phil

 

[Dog Star]

I'll creep back into me corner now - move over Jordan.
Phil

It is not your corner...  seems to me that there are lots of WTs who live there.

 

[Phill Dyson]

I have been doing a little research as to which Westerns carried MFYE:

    MFYE Applied            Blue Re-Paint       
 
D1001        27/11/68              20/11/70
D1002        28/10/69              2/10/70
D1008        19/3/68                13/10/70
D1012        1/3/68                  4/3/71
D1016        13/3/68                17/7/70
D1025        9/1/68                  9/1/69
D1039        19/4/68                24/2/71
D1041        21/5/68                13/10/69
D1044        25/4/68                26/6/70
D1045        11/4/68                20/8/70
D1054        10/3/70                9/12/70
D1056        15/9/67                6/4/71
D1067        19/10/67              25/2/69
D1068        17/10/67              22/4/70

If anyone can add to this feel free 

Phill  :wave:

 

[Jordan]

I have been doing a little research as to which Westerns carried MFYE:

    ...
D1054        10/3/70                9/12/70
....

Was it worth doing D1054 in Maroon..?? It only carried it for 9 months, by the looks of it..!!  : ;D Some of the others weren't Maroon for much longer, either...

 

[Phill Dyson]

Was it worth doing D1054 in Maroon..?? It only carried it for 9 months, by the looks of it..!!  : ;D Some of the others weren't Maroon for much longer, either...

Well it is if you model the summer of 1970  ;D :scratch:.........although I haven't set a definite date for my line (I'm thinking summer of 69,70 or 71)as the four main Hydraulic class's were still in action then  8) 8) 8)

Phill  :wave: