HI I have just add a new model in my collection It is the ALCO RSD-4/5 road switcher 5294 of the SP This locomotive has a black paint scheme with the front and back parts in silver and on the side a orange orizzontal stripes Can someone tell me in what period was this paint scheme used? Thanks very much for your reply stefano
I don't know me thinks I will need to send you a bill...grin! This isn't the prototype but I liked what I found here: Southern Pacific Alco RSD-5 Photo Gallery by Rob Sarberenyi at pbase.com You might find this one interesting: http://espee.railfan.net/nloco.html And if you dig around the previous web address you will find this: http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/rsd05_photos/0174_tno-rsd5-don_jewell.jpg
Hi Barstowrick thanks again for your reply I have to rectify the question in that i was mistaken about the orange stripes The loco has a black overall colour it has silver front and back ends Its right/left sides have small litle dash/stripes a tiger like stripes On both side of the hood its logo southern pacific in orange What period is this paint scheme representative for ? thanks again stefano
That was a early paint scheme that SP tried out. You should find it on the last website address I gave you.
Rick is right. http://espee.railfan.net/rs-tiger.html http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/rsd05_photos/0157_tno-rsd5-david_ellzey.jpg
Thanks Bremner and Barstowrick for the help In another reserch i have done it seems that the tiger striped paint scheme for switcher survived until the early 60's Can you confirme this? I am trying to fit this ALCO RSD-4/5 in the very early 60's time period thanks very much stefano
HI Flash thanks for the nice pic I can see that the loco fuel thank was painted over the stripes at same points possibly at later stage Does anybody know if this was a rule for all the locos or if was applied at random ? thanks for your reply stefano
Stefano, the tank stripes are a factory item, when the SP/T&NO repaintedthe units, they almost never painted the tank stripes again, since they were harder to mask
I know that the tiger stripes paint schemes was officially phased out in 1958 but could switchers locomotives like the RSD-4/5 be find in this tiger stripes paint scheme in the early 1960's? thanks for your reply stefano
I am about 90% sure there were some around in the 60s. They just stopped painting them in the scheme in 58, and repainted them by attrition. They didn't go out of there way to paint them untill they really needed it.
I agree - it usually takes about ten years (sometimes more) before an "old" paint scheme is completely replaced by a new one. On the CNR, one could still see some green-and-yellow locos in the late 60s (or later) even if the official paint scheme was the black and red "noodle" since about 1961 or so.
Thanks very much for the precious information always very much appreciated! Last sunday there was a national convention here in Cape Town South Africa of the railroad modelers and vendors It was the only one around here were i leave for 7 years I found not much of new items but a lot of second hand locomotives by Atlas I bought some of them all ATLAS ho and they appear to be in a not too bad conditions but they were heavily used and needed a clean up I like old transitional era diesels like ALCO's and EMD's I love American railroads which i repute to be the real essence of railroading and i very much prefer ATLAS since i started playng with my N scale european trains when i was in Italy Most of the locomotives are from the mid 1990's some of them were produced by ATLAS only once I am struggling to find information about them but here i seem to be getting on with my reserch thanks to the knowledgable members of this website thanks again stefano
You are more then welcome. Sounds like loads of fun. Those Atlas loco's aren't bad and should serve you well. I still have some of the early N Scale ones from the 70's plying the rails of my layout. A friend who operates an HO layout has one of my early Atlas GP9's, with a Kato Mechanism and now with a decoder, running around his layout. Look for the older locomotives with the Kato drive mechanism. They are a real "Find". Grin. For F type of units FT's, F3's, F7's. For N scale you can look at InterMountain and Kato. Seems to me you said you were working with HO. In that case I would point you toward Athearn and Stewart with the Kato drive mechanisim. You are certainly living in a interesting place. Some what envious.
