DOES ANTONE KNOW IF THE WILLIAMS UNION PACIFIC E7 PAINT COLORS ARE A BETTER REPRESENTATION OF THE REAL LOCO? THEY USED TO BE A BRIGHT YELLOW, AND DID NOT MATCH MY MTH PASS. CARS.
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Can't say about the yellow, but a fellow club member just touched up the roof with Scale coat UP harbor mist gray and the match seemed perfect.
Maybe one of the few (IMHO) downsides to a great runner - Williams, that is - is the fact that it seems paint colors are often one or more shades away from what they should be. I bought a Williams Golden Memories Texas Special AB passenger train (the Lionel representation of the #1520W a few years ago. Got it for under 300 bucks and the engine is one of my smoothest. The paint was not firebrand red as Lionel's was, so I carefully gloss-coated it until it seemed in the ballpark (attached). I've also got another inexpensive Williams Western Pacific AA, also a great runner, but the orange paint was closer to an orange-brown. I still am not certain if I'll want to try a repaint on this; easy enough considering the simplicity of the WP/Lionel postwar model, but for now am okay with it. Got a Canadian Pacific FM 'trainmaster' and gloss-coating made the CP maroon a bit closer to the real shade. Williams make good, basic runners; add sound, maybe a dab of paint here and there and you've got an inexpensive prize...
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The E7s I saw at the Western Depot several years ago seemed to look better than how they traditionally looked on some of the older runs of the Geeps and the SDP models, more subdued but still seemed to too bright, not enough "mustard" in it to really represent UP's "Armor Yellow."
FYI Clifford, posts typed in all caps actually makes them harder to read, especially longer posts, and in traditional online etiquette terms typing in all uppercase is considered "shouting." Not saying that to be critical, just a suggestion.
Hi john, someone told me I was "shouting " on another posting, but I didn't get it. Thanks for taking the time to provide me with the proper usage of capital letters.
Sincerely, Clifford
