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Reply to "MTH F3s and Kadees"

Rapid Transit Holmes posted:

Acknowledging that this great hobby allows us to do whatever we darn well please with our equipment, I'm curious to know why you:

1. Felt that lime green was inappropriate?  ("But... lime green? really?? lol.")  EMD thought that lime green was pretty cool and painted all of F unit cabs that I've been in that color and I've been in a few.

The reason that EMD used two different colors for cab & engine room interiors was; that's what the railroads were using for steam locomotive cab interiors. There were generally two "colors of choice", either Jade Green, or Sued Gray, for steam locomotive cab interiors, which thus carried over to the interior paint on EMC/EMD diesels, ninth mid to late 1930s.

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