@EricTrainMan posted:Here is the PRR METCA version
https://youtu.be/8ROfmTcGRrA
Just got mine yesterday, and oddly, it looks just like yours! 
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Just got mine yesterday, and oddly, it looks just like yours!
Funny how that works! Overall I’m pretty happy with it. Sounds are great and I like the 5 whistle options they selected. It’s a solid 8/10 from me. Not to beat a dead horse, but the only thing separating it from being a home run in my mind is the missing back up light and a little more tender detail. The molded in hatch looks more like a lionchief/railking piece. Overall a great engine though!
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I am out of town or I would send a the Southern which I thought turn out well.
@SouthernFan56 posted:
That does not look like the proper color! 
@SouthernFan56 posted:
Oh my.
@SouthernFan56 posted:
Wat. 😦
@gunrunnerjohn posted:That does not look like the proper color!
There are lots of similar painted in other scales, perhaps not exactly the same but close.
From our friends at Sunset
Here is a link on an S2 Northern
http://www.rgusrail.com/mtgn2584.html
And a class O-1 Mikado
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@EricTrainMan posted:Here is the PRR METCA version
That’s a sharp looking engine! Looks good next to the pacific. Wish I had gone for one of those. Thanks for sharing and also, nice layout, looks like it’s got a nice long mainline.
@WBC posted:There are lots of similar painted in other scales, perhaps not exactly the same color.
Green... yes,similar?...not so much.
That 10 wheeler is a pastel green that isn't accurate for anything but an Easter egg.....or maybe a 57 Chevy.
@SouthernFan56 posted:
Oh my. This reminds me of those summer picnics as a kid. My aunt's and my mom would all make some dessert dish for the parties, and someone would make some jello with Cool Whip. That green color is the color of that dessert. Brutal I think would be the proper term on that color. It should be a much darker green, not something mixed with Cool Whip.
@SouthernFan56 posted:
That’s supposed to be Southern Green??......🤢....🤮....oh my god!...they really got to get a paint dude that ain’t color blind!!.....wow!!!.....Kitchen Aid just called, ....they want their green paint back for the mixer plant,...😳😳😳
Pat
Couple of comments about the METCA PRR Ten-wheeler:
1. Did the PRR ever run a ten-wheeler without a Belpaire firebox?
2. Are those colors on the cab roof and the tender deck the same? To me, the cab roof looks like a darker red. And, do the cab window colors match either the cab roof or the tender deck? They look closer to the tender deck color, but not quite the same.
Chuck
The cab roof is a darker red. I believe that was actually prototypical for at least some PRR steam, it's been discussed here before.
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Thank goodness they are being repainted by the dozens and the price is reasonable. I have photos of piles of boxes, two pallets, and at least 25 engines in the process of being painted.
But all is not lost. How about an Easter train? All that is needed is a set of pastel cars... pink, light blue, lavender, and yellow should be perfect.
Someone mentioned Southern green so I figured I would share this pic of mine for anyone interested.
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@Chessie1 posted:Someone mentioned Southern green so I figured I would share this pic of mine for anyone interested.
So, if that’s the Southern one, what’s the one SouthernFan56 posted?......now I’m confused, and could use some straightening out,....clearly yours looks more appropriate,...
Pat
@harmonyards posted:So, if that’s the Southern one, what’s the one SouthernFan56 posted?......now I’m confused, and could use some straightening out,....clearly yours looks more appropriate,...
Pat
316 is the Texas and Pacific
@Chessie1 posted:316 is the Texas and Pacific
Ahh,..ok thank you,...I thought I was going crazy,...I take it the color is off even for a Texas & Pacific?...I have no knowledge what colors they should be,...so my comment may have jumped the gun, ....and if so, I’ll stand tall & corrected,...😉
Pat
@gunrunnerjohn posted:The cab roof is a darker red. I believe that was actually prototypical for at least some PRR steam, it's been discussed here before.
This is the Atlantic from the most recent batch. Colors look right for PRR.
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@SouthernFan56 posted:
@harmonyards posted:Ahh,..ok thank you,...I thought I was going crazy,...I take it the color is off even for a Texas & Pacific?...I have no knowledge what colors they should be,...so my comment may have jumped the gun, ....and if so, I’ll stand tall & corrected,...😉
Pat
Hmm, catalog looks slightly darker and more of a solid type green without white added into it, lol.
I think when the initial release of the catalog, I said that the color was similar to Baldwin steamer at Steamtown. Number 20 or something like that, what is it darn it?
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@harmonyards posted:Ahh,..ok thank you,...I thought I was going crazy,...I take it the color is off even for a Texas & Pacific?...I have no knowledge what colors they should be,...so my comment may have jumped the gun, ....and if so, I’ll stand tall & corrected,...😉
Pat
No, you’re good. It’s way off.
@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:Hmm, catalog looks slightly darker and more of a solid type green without white added into it, lol.
I think when the initial release of the catalog, I said that the color was similar to Baldwin steamer at Steamtown. Number 20 or something like that, what is it darn it?
Baldwin 26, argh. The color for Baldwin 26 is slightly darker, but close.
@WBC posted:There are lots of similar painted in other scales, perhaps not exactly the same but close.
From our friends at Sunset
Here is a link on an S2 Northern
http://www.rgusrail.com/mtgn2584.html
And a class O-1 Mikado
I agree it is in the ballpark, but not a homerun. The T&P green here looks closer to toy-ish plastic to me. I was thinking of picking up one but not now!
@Bill Webb posted:Thank goodness they are being repainted by the dozens and the price is reasonable. I have photos of piles of boxes, two pallets, and at least 25 engines in the process of being painted.
Bill, where did you hear they are getting repainted? You mentioned this in the 2-8-8-2 thread and I am eager to learn more!
@rplst8 posted:
Thanks for clearing that up, .....I didn’t want to come off as another bandwagon jumper ........but that is off even for what you’re picturing it should be close too,...
Pat
@rplst8 posted:
But they got the silver smoke box pretty close, it actually is silver! 
As delivered, as advertised. Wow. This is unreal.
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Wow, the green looks right and the smoke box looks all wrong on the catalog picture! Look at the picture of the prototype, the smokebox is right on the "as delivered" model.
@Rider Sandman posted:As delivered, as advertised. Wow. This is unreal.
Mint chocolate choo choo
Wow.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Wow, the green looks right and the smoke box looks all wrong on the catalog picture! Look at the picture of the prototype, the smokebox is right on the "as delivered" model.
It would be interesting to know if the smoke box really is silver or if it’s battleship gray that shows up as silver in the lighting of the photo. I’m willing to bet it’s gray. Either way, this is an abomination.
At some point, one has to assume they simply can’t figure this stuff out and give up on them. It’s real close to that time for me.
@tom21pa posted:Mint chocolate choo choo
I didn't even think of mint chocolate. That is priceless. So I guess with the Lionel Ale, soon will be coming Texas & Pacific Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream? Guess no more graphite, no more standard greens, off color reds and shiny silver for everyone. Ugh.
Another laughable paint job by Lionel. Like RickO said, it's the Easter egg special. They finally get the smokebox about right, and then screw up the rest! You don't know what you're going to get from them these days until you actually see it.
Here's how it's supposed to look.
@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:I didn't even think of mint chocolate. That is priceless. So I guess with the Lionel Ale, soon will be coming Texas & Pacific Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream? Guess no more graphite, no more standard greens, off color reds and shiny silver for everyone. Ugh.
Or the double mint express
@Rider Sandman posted:It would be interesting to know if the smoke box really is silver or if it’s battleship gray that shows up as silver in the lighting of the photo. I’m willing to bet it’s gray. Either way, this is an abomination.
At some point, one has to assume they simply can’t figure this stuff out and give up on them. It’s real close to that time for me.
At least they got the black right...
Rusty
@Rusty Traque posted:At least they got the black right...
Rusty
Pretty soon, all black engines are what we'll all have to buy. It is getting crazy how much the paint schemes are getting further from what they're supposed to be. The N&W J's, the red stripe was off a bit, though I think someone had said that it looked a little bit like how it had at some point or was close to now. The graphite has become shining silver, Tuscon Red becomes orangish, the Challenger became a clown train, the Niagara became the 20th Century Limited, the new L2 Mohawk becomes a Pacemaker. What is next? Navy blue becomes Army green?
@gunrunnerjohn posted:The cab roof is a darker red. I believe that was actually prototypical for at least some PRR steam, it's been discussed here before.
While it may be prototypical to some PRR steam, surviving PRR steam has the darker red on both cab roof has the same darker red on the tender deck.
Check out this picture of 7002's cab/tender at RRMPA. They show the same shade of dark red. I trust them as the authority when it comes to shades of paint for PRR.
Edit: Also check out this thread which contains pictures of 1223 cab and tender taken from walkway over the tracks.
@Prr7688 posted:While it may be prototypical to some PRR steam, surviving PRR steam has the darker red on both cab roof has the same darker red on the tender deck.
Check out this picture of 7002's cab/tender at RRMPA. They show the same shade of dark red. I trust them as the authority when it comes to shades of paint for PRR.
bad link for some reason
@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:bad link for some reason
Thanks Dave, it should be fixed now.
@Prr7688 posted:Thanks Dave, it should be fixed now.
Love the pics. I took a whole boatload of pictures when I was there. Last time I took less though, maybe because it was York Week, lol.
