The initial paint scheme proposed by General Electric for the EP-5 was the traditional New Haven green and gold but with silver trucks. GE later proposed another green/gold color scheme with black trucks and a third scheme unlike anything the New Haven had used previously. Lucille McGinnis, the wife of New Haven Railroad president Patrick McGinnis, then suggested that something more stylish should be developed including the new NH logo. She, in conjunction with Florence Knoll and Herbert Matter, a graphic designer and instructor of photography at Yale University in New Haven, developed the red/black/white scheme eventually selected for the EP-5s. She had also suggested a similar yellow/black/white scheme which was painted onto one of the first EP-5s but she eventually chose the red/black/white scheme for production. Thus, there were five paint schemes designed for the EP-5 before it went into service. They are the ones that I would like to see on a model. I believe that MTH previously made the green/gold and yellow/black/white schemes in its O gauge Premier line.
MELGAR
