@D500 posted:Now, that's just all kinds of striking.
A Green Bonnet? Or, it makes me think of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
That loco was one of my earliest repaints, nearly 30 years ago. K-Line had made several starter sets powered by single unit Alco FA's: There was a Western Pacific, a Southern and a Pennsy set. The Southern and the Pennsy were both the same unpainted green molded plastic color. I don't remember which, but it was from one of those sets. There was also a brown PRR Alco FA, though still molded plastic color.
My premise was along the lines of "What if the Penn Central hadn't been so cash-strapped? What might they have done to liven up the paint schemes on their locomotives?" My thinking was that whatever scheme that might be, it would still be fairly simple and not too complicated... cost savings.
So that's what I came up with. A fantasy scheme made well before the current slew of manufacturer fantasy scheme locomotives models. Still one of my favorites to run. To me, it doesn't seem so outlandish or ridiculous that it couldn't have been a potential reality.
Also at that time, in the early days of the internet before so much prototypical railroad line information was at our fingertips, I would come up with road numbers based on friends birthdays, house numbers, phone numbers, etc. All my Penn Central items had road numbers based upon ex-girlfriends who I should never have had anything to do with, and luckily didn't end up any more seriously. In the same way many historians view the ill-fated PC merger: As something that should not have happened and might have been better if it hadn't. 
I now don't remember, but I'm certain the 4 digit number on that engine is also the last 4 digits of some ex-girlfriend's phone number... a little bittersweet humor. Today I'd try to put something close to a prototypical railroad number on it.
