KCS Big Ace in Southern Belle Livery- New Pic! http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=183596 Click on the above to see a KCS SD70ACe in the Southern Belle livery. Outclasses BNSF, Borgrail, and all those heritage schemes, IMO:thumbs_up:
Southern BELLE Folks, the KCS' premier passenger train was the "Southern BELLE", named for a pretty young lady, and not the "Southern Bell", named for a telephone company or a piece of brass with a clapper. mg: That's a sharp looking color scheme though. I can recall the original "Southern Belle" from when I worked out of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal for the PRR.
IIRC, what I committed was a misspelling. Oops, silly me.:embarassed: I'm quite aware that the premiere varnish was the Southern Belle.
I do like to see this scheme north of the border, but I only regret that it probably won't spread too quickly. Most of the fleet will be gray for a long time to come...
Ooh lah lah! :shade: Such a beautiful scheme, as it is the original, too! Now, granted, the previous KCS scheme is still cool...
Took a while to change from the "ghost" scheme to all-gray (and there are still at least three units in all-white), so yes, it will be some time if the Belle scheme is the final livery KCS wears. However, in this age where motive power roams North America in power pools and run-offs, don't be surprised if a Belle comes a-callin' on Calgary in the near future.
Personally, I liked the WP and CNW heritage schemes better, but that's just me and I know there's a lot of controversy. Still, it's a great paint scheme.
Of course one big difference is that those heritage schemes were one-off paint jobs. This one is the new paint scheme for the fleet. Ed
True. The way I see it, BNSF's killing the warbonnet kinda just killed a little part of me. There's no paint scheme that will bring that back, one off or fleet wide. So, I just can't get worked up about it. Seeing Haverty do the same thing again makes my black and white world just a little more technicolor again, but it's just not the same.
Even though I'm not an ATSF fan, I think the classic silver/red/yellow warbonnet scheme was the best looking paint scheme ever put on a diesel. Ed
Here's the business train led by F units in the retro belle sceme Here's 3 different units from the KCS site