What's Your Favorite Paint Scheme Steam Engines

Back in the 1980's I did this for a friend of mine.  A reworked 6-3100 FARR 3 GN Northern.:

Also, this one was mine.  A reworked 6-8101 C&A Hudson:

And as I found a builders photo of NYC/Michigan Central 8210, repainting a reworked 6-8210 JLC Hudson was a natural:

Rusty

Miggy- I think your question gives you your answer.

Rusty- awesome Canadian re-paints!!  JohnA

I like my own Shark Bay R.R. paint scheme.

How about a green boiler as on this MTH Boston & Albany J-2 Hudson?

MELGAR

WOW...... Beautiful all!! Thanks for making my day

My favorites are the Prewar Hiawatha and Blue Comet!

For steam, I'm just a fan of basic black.
(Now when it comes to diesels... Give me COLORS!)
Dennis

SP S12 tarted up for shuttling passenger cars.

Pete

The best color.  Or lack thereof.  BLACK'

Blue Goose

SP Daylight,  UP light grey/dark grey, Southern green, C&A maroon. Blue Comet, to name a few.

Black is ok.

WM fireball for traditional black engines.

LV scheme that had the red accents. But here's where the question gets muddy.

It's hard to answer on just paint schemes and not overall design. The NYC Mercury and Reading Crusader where both striking but the streamline design combined with the color choices to make it so. And of course the Milwaukee Hiawatha schemes to that concept to a whole other level.

I don’t any. Something about the Canadian National. No wild paint scheme as far as colors. Glossy black when clean. Just the use of white on the running boards and drivers, red cab windows, gold lettering, with more of an emblem on the tender rather than block lettering.

A close second is the Maine Central with the speed lettering.

DaveC-  Canadian National is my favorite also!  JohnA

@Rusty Traque posted:

Back in the 1980's I did this for a friend of mine.  A reworked 6-3100 FARR 3 GN Northern.:

Rusty

Thanks for the Photos... Beauty eh! Ive wondered what the big green panels on the sides,, in the front are for, Wind Spoilers?

thanks

Smoke deflectors.... JohnA

Miggy, I must admit that at first this thread had me wondering, "How many different black paint schemes are there?"; then I started thinking streamlined.  20th Century, ESE, Broadway, Daylight, Milwaukee, Blue Goose, then as pointed out in several posts some  railroads eschewed black for color in their everyday livery.  So there were many steam paint schemes, maybe not as many as diesel, but still plenty to choose from. Not to mention all the fantasy schemes put out by themodel train industry.  I don't know that I could pick just one.

My all-time favorite steam color scheme:  Southern's green, silver and gold.  For me, nothing else comes close, and I'm old enough to have seen those colorful PS-2 Pacifics running on the St. Louis division.  Beautiful.

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Black! Don