Reply to "Is it possible to remove lettering from a modern locomotive without damaging the paint?"

@ThatGuy posted:

The design is correct for the time period, what you are looking to do is the more modern version.

The blue and yellow LIRR Rs3's never had lettering of any sort on the hood and either had the MTA "M" on the cab (sometimes with "long island" written under it in small text) or no M at all. No version of the scheme ever resembled the MTH model.

The older orange and grey "goodfellow" scheme did have "Long Island" on the hood, MTH has actually done both this and the "World's Fair" scheme, which were both pretty accurate. The blue and yellow one however is not.