Unpopular opinion: CSX YN2 only looked good fresh. It was quickly ruined by weathering and exhaust stains. YN3 is superior because it holds up better over time and resembles the C&O paint scheme of the 1960s. I agree, the removal of the "Boxcar" was silly. I thought it was genius marketing.
Hard disagree on Phase 7. The silver was definitely looking very tired at this point, and it's good to see Amtrak going with more actual colors. And eventually, the cars are supposed to get Phase 7 as well, so you won't have that mismatch forever.
CSX YN2 is probably my favorite because of it's uniqueness. Like someone said in another comment, yeah over time, sun bleaching and weathering did kinda ruin it. But once all YN2s are repainted and there's none left, you'll wish that you didn't take it for granted.
I was VERY worried that I was gonna have to comment on how the warbonnet paint scheme is awesome. But turns out the thumbnail is basically just rage bait 😂😂😂
Well the Rio Grande wasn't also green, the BN green mixed with the orange and black stripes on the nose/cab is what makes me dislike the tiger stripe. Rio Grande is a fine looking scheme, because the colors actually go well together.
You think the black & orange BN tiger stripes were odd, just wait until you see the white and orange tiger stripes they experimented with at the same time. Very rare to find pictures of it, as I think only a couple locomotives ever got it.
For CSX just bring back the Chessie System paint scheme and name. For UP, bring back the wings. I fully agree on Ferromex. For BNSF, bring back the Santa Fe, all the way! For CPKC, just keep the Southern Belle scheme and call the railroad Canada Southern instead.
Honestly I only prefer the YN3C over the regular YN3 only because the units coming out look hella fresh, and ive grown fond of the YN3B as of late. If only that YN4 was a real scheme
alright, TO BE FAIR, the tiger stripe paint scheme for BN was entirely experimental, which was why only a few gp50's (and 1 single sd60) actually wore it. for the nerds; the issue BN was facing in the 80's was that in some of the areas they operated in was seeing an increased number of accidents reportedly due to low visibility of their locomotives. because being painted cascade green, they simply blended into their surroundings a little _too_ well. a safety campaign was launched to figure out how to increase locomotive visibility, and several experimental paint schemes were designed and tested. the tiger stripes scheme was never meant to look good. it was intentionally designed to clash hard with the existing locomotive colors so it would be easier to identify based on pattern recognition. however, the campaign concluded the tiger stripes scheme wasnt actually helpful as the number of accidents relatively remained the same in the areas they were tested. but the paint scheme that WAS successful on the other hand was the white face, which saw a significant decrease in those areas. so for the short remaining time period BN operated up until the merger, all newly acquired/painted locomotives would receive the white face.
I'm a huge BN stan and I just kinda don't. It's different so I can still appreciate it as-is however I don't personally like it as I feel it wasn't applied in a way to make it look good (which it wasn't, it was strictly meant to be high visibility). If they restricted the orange to just the nose and did V pattern stripes then I'd feel like it look much better. The largest glaring issue with the tiger stripes was that they also painted the entire cab face, which felt unnecessary.
I don't know what you are thinking about but that Santa Fe paint scheme was beautiful. The BN paint scheme with the tiger stripes and the large billboard lettering was very beautiful.
Yo, you're the reason I started getting into railfanning and why I uploading videos, thank you. (Question: any tips for being motivated to go out more instead of the weekend? Tryna get a red white and blue BCRail. )
One of the worst ones today is the new FEC paint scheme. Its the new ferromex scheme but blue. Its not terrible but compared to say the champion scheme its awful.
0:45 100% agree. The loss of YN2 was a major cultural loss to the state of Ohio that we still haven't emotionally reovered from. YN2 always, now and forever, be the definitive CSX paint scheme. Should have stayed around. Atleast it's immortalized in Bolt 2008.
@@victoriacyunczykCW44AC 100 has been on I141/I142 for the past 2+ weeks, so you still get them. They’re just not as common since their numbers are dwindling
Yes, and I think people quickly labeled the paint scheme as bad because they don't like the merger itself - so everything associated with it became bad. Which included the scheme
People love to jump the gun and hate on it just because its new, not to mention it isn't even being applied to every loco there's a select few that are receiving the scheme and thats it
4:14 not trying to be corrective and nerdy but Amtrak never had “gray” on their locomotives, however, they did have “Amtrak platinum mist gloss enamel”
To add to the ferromex scheme, grupomexico (the people that own the rr) decided to put the same exact livery onto Florida East Coast units but made it Blue
Also, i agree with the CPKC scheme, its so bad, to me. They did kcs so bad and no justice. They just took CP and simply rear end stuck KCS right in the ground 6 feet deep with that black/yellow.
BN Tiger Stripe scheme is actually one of my favorites, mainly because i love schemes that have the full railroad name spelled out along the side, and the new Amtrak Phase VII Scheme is the best scheme since Phase III, the chargers themselves is whats horrendus. That new scheme looks really good on the P42s and now the standard cab geeps. Id like to see that scheme on a F40PH. Im a die hard CSX fan and i confidently say plain jane grey ghost, before adding the yn1 nose, is one of the worst schemes ever. The best version of it was the one that had "CSX Transportation" along the side.
Completely agree regarding the new UP scheme. I have no idea why so many people howled at the Big Shield, although wings were best. The little shield is Weak Energy.
i might get brutally ripped to shreds by saying this but honestly i feel like the CSX heritage units are kinda cool though yea some are better than other ones but i feel like they dont really deserve the hate (please dont murder me)
I love the Tiger BNs. They were designed for low visibility purposes, and a majority of GP50 Tigers were used for intermodal consists. The SD Tigers were used in mixed scenarios
I 100% agree with you, heck I prefer it over the CP paint scheme, which was quite lazy if you ask me as it was just a red loco with “Canadian pacific” on the side.
My only real problem with CPKC (aside from their name) is that their livery feels backwards. The angle up is towards the front on the conceptually-similar CSX YN2 and CN “hockey sticks” schemes, but at the back end on CPKC. Maybe it would have been too similar to the CN one if they had done it towards the front, but it still feels odd how it is.
@@TsalagiRailfan Honestly they shouldn't have gone with the renaming to CPKC, but rather kept the CP name only. Simply replace the "Canadian Pacific" titles on the sides of the previous livery with just "CP" and that would've been great.
We grew up in the wrong decade. The years before before all the various railroads merge and there was so much color and variety on the rails would've been quite the time to experience. I love the Chessie System, Seaboard Airline, BN green, PRR, and NYC that all had pretty great colors on their diesels.
So, the reason they are going back to the old scheme is because when the locomotives started having issues and burning up the flag, they really did not like that. So they put the flag on the nose. And personally, I wish they left the wings on the front
-Doesn't throw VRE's Cab Cars under the bus by roasting the BN Tiger Stripe -Roasts Ferromex's new scheme but not the FEC scheme that GrupoMexico also replaced -Acts like Phase V was a superior scheme when it literally never mixed with Phase IV and III stuff
I'm gonna ruffle some feathers and say that IC *never* had a good paintscheme. It was like they went out of their way to choose the most visually appalling colors and they only got worse and worse as time went on (their steam locomotives were cool tho) Also Rock Island's Bankruptcy Blue looks like crap and weathers even worse
@@Lambo.Hobbies I can give some leeway for artistic freedom to make proportions better on modern units, but a lot of the heritage colorways clash with the blue/yellow.
Finally, someone who didn't put freaking NS paint schemes on here If you don't get it, most people think NS has the worst paint cause its black and white but in my defense, between their horse logo and their whisker designs on the front and rear of their locomotives Its way better than the paint schemes you mentioned in the video.
NS isn’t my favorite American railroad by a long shot, but their livery is great. It’s my second favorite livery of a modern railroad behind the BNSF H3s.
I worked for Amtrak and CSX, so I think I have some standing here. Of the CSX schemes, I liked the YN2 best, and I thought the yellow highlighted letters on the AC 6000s was well done. The YN2 paint on the only SD80MAC to get it, #801, was just dramatic, especially the O-scale model of it. I understand why they simplified it for cost, which is why the Chessie System paint scheme disappeared as soon as the merger happened, it was a very expensive paint job to apply for the time, like $7,000 per unit in 1984 dollars, but it looked great when they were freshly done. There was something to be said for the 1960s B&O and C&O basic dark blue with yellow lettering and accent stripes or yellow nose (C&O), simple but well-done for a marginal road that was always looking to economize on expenses. As for Amtrak, my all-time fav is the equal stripes Phase III. I think the new Phase VII scheme may be the best one since Phase III. And BTW, the Chargers are nowhere near as ugly as the GE Genesis units, no matter what color they were painted (I am partial to the F40PH "screamers", since they were what I worked around most of my career there). To most of us older fans, nothing is going to beat the 1950s EMD "Bulldog" nosed Es and Fs, but time marches on. Oh, and my take on the CPKC scheme is that the font for the lettering makes it look like something out of the Soviet era.
Make the Ferromex text black and swap the colours around on the nose and it's actually a decent scheme. Could have made the white trim and arrows green though to preserve it a little though.
Where do you get your cameras I am look to by one and start recording trains since I live near Griffith Indiana where the CN Matteson sub and south bend sub cross
I think for CPKC they should just keep the locomotives as is, because KCS and CP are just to very iconic railroads, and were the last railroads still in existence without merging
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That thumbnail fr gonna be the end of me💀💀💀
I love warbonnets dont worry lol
I like gevos
Definitely 💯
Me personally I think the railroad that has the worst paint Scheme is CPKC like bro they didn't even try💀
ik i knew u were capping
Not gonna lie when I saw the thumbnail I was angry at first but thankfully the video did not say what the thumbnail said so your good dude. lol 😂
Unpopular opinion: CSX YN2 only looked good fresh. It was quickly ruined by weathering and exhaust stains. YN3 is superior because it holds up better over time and resembles the C&O paint scheme of the 1960s. I agree, the removal of the "Boxcar" was silly. I thought it was genius marketing.
I agree with this unpopular opinion, I also think CSX's grey ghost scheme is also really good
Very unpopular, as a weathered YN2 covered in coal dust is a beautiful machine.
Yo, DIB joined the chat 🗣🔥
I dislike the boxcar logo, although CSX isnt my local railroad so im probably biased.
Almost every paint scheme looks best when it’s newly painted.
Making a "worst paint schemes" video and putting the legendary Santa Fe in the thumbnail should be considered a crime against humanity.
Yea I agree 😅😅😅
Rage bait ahh video 😭
lets just say i was in a hurry for the thumbnail
@@BNSF1458 lol
@@BNSF1458 Stop your fuckin Lying Bullshit
Hard disagree on Phase 7. The silver was definitely looking very tired at this point, and it's good to see Amtrak going with more actual colors. And eventually, the cars are supposed to get Phase 7 as well, so you won't have that mismatch forever.
Agreed! Especially on the Siemens units too?! Silver looked good but it’s more or less a dated color
Too bad the new locomotives are hideous, though, no matter what you paint them it's just lipstick on a pig.
@@RCAvhstape They painted P42s in the new scheme too, they look fire!
@@Lambo.Hobbies I agree. The P42s definitely wear the phase vii paint scheme better than the chargers.
Phase 6 was worse…but phases 3 and 4 will always be the superior Amtrak liveries. Phase 7 is nice, honestly, at least when it’s NOT on a charger.
*goes beserek at the Thumbnail* WHY YOU LITTLE!!-
Great profile pic!
@@ElmerFudd16 Thanks. :)
@@jimmyhook4852 *H E D A R E C R I T I C I Z E T H E A T S F*
@@atsf47legit YEAH!
CSX YN2 is probably my favorite because of it's uniqueness. Like someone said in another comment, yeah over time, sun bleaching and weathering did kinda ruin it. But once all YN2s are repainted and there's none left, you'll wish that you didn't take it for granted.
YN2 is the goat btw.
I was VERY worried that I was gonna have to comment on how the warbonnet paint scheme is awesome. But turns out the thumbnail is basically just rage bait 😂😂😂
1:46 Black and organe stripes? What did the Rio Grande ever do to you bud?
Well the Rio Grande wasn't also green, the BN green mixed with the orange and black stripes on the nose/cab is what makes me dislike the tiger stripe. Rio Grande is a fine looking scheme, because the colors actually go well together.
@@BNSF1458 I actually do realize that I'm just giving you a bit of a ribbing. Good video though. I left a couple other comments
You think the black & orange BN tiger stripes were odd, just wait until you see the white and orange tiger stripes they experimented with at the same time. Very rare to find pictures of it, as I think only a couple locomotives ever got it.
Only 1 locomotive got it and it was gp50 #3110
They were safety stripe experiments…
Bro is the CEO of complaining
Whats the app you use to draw the locomotives example at 0:11
Photoshop
Honestly, I love the new Amtrak Paint Scheme! It’s absolutely beautiful! It no longer looks like an assembly of parts found in the scrapyard!
Thank You!
CPKC just yoinked AWVR 767 from wish
Ikr
How?
Real
☠️☠️
no they did not.
Amtrak is my fav railroad rn, the P42DCs are cool, and the K5LAs are amazing
I would say tho that the new CPKC paint looks like the locomotives from the movie Unstoppable
For CSX just bring back the Chessie System paint scheme and name. For UP, bring back the wings. I fully agree on Ferromex. For BNSF, bring back the Santa Fe, all the way! For CPKC, just keep the Southern Belle scheme and call the railroad Canada Southern instead.
I wouldn’t mind if CN would use the green and yellow scheme from the 1950s and rename itself the Grand Trunk Railroad.
_For CSX just bring back the Chessie System paint scheme and name._
YES
Amtrash actually made me laugh, good job 🤣🤣
Honestly I only prefer the YN3C over the regular YN3 only because the units coming out look hella fresh, and ive grown fond of the YN3B as of late. If only that YN4 was a real scheme
I was about to throw hands fr when i saw the warbonnet as your thumbnail
Sick! these videos are amazing, best railfan/railfan yeapping of TH-cam 👏
In my opinion the blue down scheme for csx is better then yn2
Man, that thumbnail was about to make me throw hands lmao
alright, TO BE FAIR, the tiger stripe paint scheme for BN was entirely experimental, which was why only a few gp50's (and 1 single sd60) actually wore it. for the nerds; the issue BN was facing in the 80's was that in some of the areas they operated in was seeing an increased number of accidents reportedly due to low visibility of their locomotives. because being painted cascade green, they simply blended into their surroundings a little _too_ well. a safety campaign was launched to figure out how to increase locomotive visibility, and several experimental paint schemes were designed and tested. the tiger stripes scheme was never meant to look good. it was intentionally designed to clash hard with the existing locomotive colors so it would be easier to identify based on pattern recognition. however, the campaign concluded the tiger stripes scheme wasnt actually helpful as the number of accidents relatively remained the same in the areas they were tested. but the paint scheme that WAS successful on the other hand was the white face, which saw a significant decrease in those areas. so for the short remaining time period BN operated up until the merger, all newly acquired/painted locomotives would receive the white face.
I think the tiger stripes look great (any BB livery really does)
I'm a huge BN stan and I just kinda don't. It's different so I can still appreciate it as-is however I don't personally like it as I feel it wasn't applied in a way to make it look good (which it wasn't, it was strictly meant to be high visibility). If they restricted the orange to just the nose and did V pattern stripes then I'd feel like it look much better. The largest glaring issue with the tiger stripes was that they also painted the entire cab face, which felt unnecessary.
@@MasterOfTruck fair enough lol.
The white face looked awesome, ngl.
CP's Multimark livery also had stopped noses, but they had the sense to make it white and red
I don't know what you are thinking about but that Santa Fe paint scheme was beautiful. The BN paint scheme with the tiger stripes and the large billboard lettering was very beautiful.
New paint On the Ferromex Is Pretty Good Ngl Still hate the fact they got rid of the dark green but still good overall
Yo, you're the reason I started getting into railfanning and why I uploading videos, thank you.
(Question: any tips for being motivated to go out more instead of the weekend? Tryna get a red white and blue BCRail. )
Assuming you’re in BC or Canada in general the Facebook groups always get me motivated to see what’s in my province and if I get a chance to see it!!
No, I live in Michigan on a CN Subdivision. But I'm close to Canada
I'd love to go to Canada one day
4:33 HORRIBLE
One of the worst ones today is the new FEC paint scheme. Its the new ferromex scheme but blue. Its not terrible but compared to say the champion scheme its awful.
bro how did i forget, part two finna drop now💀
5:05 essentially, it's just reverse CN when you look at it long enough
0:45
100% agree. The loss of YN2 was a major cultural loss to the state of Ohio that we still haven't emotionally reovered from. YN2 always, now and forever, be the definitive CSX paint scheme. Should have stayed around. Atleast it's immortalized in Bolt 2008.
We still get plenty of YN2s here in Charleston, SC. They're still around, but you won't find them on hotshots.
YN2 is still a common sight on the Columbus Subdivision, I see it all the time
@@victoriacyunczykCW44AC 100 has been on I141/I142 for the past 2+ weeks, so you still get them. They’re just not as common since their numbers are dwindling
@@csx345 Here we mostly see them on locals. For a good while we had enough of them based in CHS that they'd run pairs on L626.
What is your opinion on CSX 1899
One of my favorite Csx heritage units
@@LukeSesayRailfan me to
you know 1458 is fighting real demons when he posts at midnight
My favorite color is red, so yea I like any train color scheme with red.
CSX went to the CN playbook of just adding a website
I hardly noticed the www.csx or never really thought much of it but now looking at it more kind of looks bad but looks like regular yn3
I actually like the cpkc scheme
Yes, and I think people quickly labeled the paint scheme as bad because they don't like the merger itself - so everything associated with it became bad. Which included the scheme
People love to jump the gun and hate on it just because its new, not to mention it isn't even being applied to every loco there's a select few that are receiving the scheme and thats it
I honestly do too, it’s not as bad as it could be let’s be honest
@@Lambo.Hobbies I especially love when there’s two engines back to back and the paint scheme completes each other
@@ShortAttentionSpanRailfan Yeah they look great!
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Fun fact: The New paint scheme of Ferromex is nicknamed "Lil coca cola's" because they do kinda resemble that of a coca cola bottle
Also railfans dont have any right to complain about a railroad's paint scheme. If they cared for image they would've asked ages ago
The Worst one could be the CPKC Paint I guess
Just a copy of 767’s scheme
I don’t think cpkc’s livery is that bad, it’s way better than the original CP one (just a full red…) the kcs livery was better though
@@Rebel_Bricks i don’t think it’s bad either, but comparing it to the scheme 767 used, it looks very similar to it
@Ayden2008 that’s fair lol (unfortunately I will not be able to use the similarities lol)
No it’s Amtrak livery Transpennine express is better
Video idea, executive team reviews
CN surprisingly didnt make it in this video. No way!
I want the Zebra stripes to return
@@Elliottblancher fr!!!
I figured I'd let it slide, this time...
CN: 60 years of the best railway livery on the planet 😊
CN after you letting them slide: Weeeeeeee!
4:14 not trying to be corrective and nerdy but Amtrak never had “gray” on their locomotives, however, they did have “Amtrak platinum mist gloss enamel”
To add to the ferromex scheme, grupomexico (the people that own the rr) decided to put the same exact livery onto Florida East Coast units but made it Blue
the fact that they removed the UP wings pissed me off
Honestly, the new UP locks look sick
Also, i agree with the CPKC scheme, its so bad, to me. They did kcs so bad and no justice. They just took CP and simply rear end stuck KCS right in the ground 6 feet deep with that black/yellow.
For me the SEPTA Silverliner V. The Up and down stripes are insulting to my eyes.
3:48 he don’t like amtrak
Amtrak is a W
@@TransitFannerM Facts
3:47 AmTrash- *noises*
The YN2 on CSX is one of not the most coolest paint schemes they had sadly they can’t do it no more :(
BN Tiger Stripe scheme is actually one of my favorites, mainly because i love schemes that have the full railroad name spelled out along the side, and the new Amtrak Phase VII Scheme is the best scheme since Phase III, the chargers themselves is whats horrendus. That new scheme looks really good on the P42s and now the standard cab geeps. Id like to see that scheme on a F40PH.
Im a die hard CSX fan and i confidently say plain jane grey ghost, before adding the yn1 nose, is one of the worst schemes ever. The best version of it was the one that had "CSX Transportation" along the side.
0:05 & the Charmin bears
1:41 This paint was made beacuse for some safety crap back in the late 1980s
The new CPKC paint scheme genuinely looks like AWVR 777 and 767 were ordered of a chinese website. Who tf agreed to that
CPKC Should've taken notes from Unstoppable AWVR's 777 and 767 scheme 😭
While I do have nothing against the new CPKC paint scheme, I don't understand why it's more CP than KCS color-wise.
nah that BN tiger scheme 💀
CPKC has without argument the worst name and paint scheme out of any modern railroad.
Completely agree regarding the new UP scheme. I have no idea why so many people howled at the Big Shield, although wings were best. The little shield is Weak Energy.
Your videos are amazing!
On a different note your Amtrak picture was Amtrak empire builder in Everett WA so thank you for the showing.
I like the YN3B
i might get brutally ripped to shreds by saying this but honestly i feel like the CSX heritage units are kinda cool though yea some are better than other ones but i feel like they dont really deserve the hate (please dont murder me)
I love the Tiger BNs. They were designed for low visibility purposes, and a majority of GP50 Tigers were used for intermodal consists. The SD Tigers were used in mixed scenarios
Controversial opinion but: CPKC is an *okay* paint scheme.
I 100% agree with you, heck I prefer it over the CP paint scheme, which was quite lazy if you ask me as it was just a red loco with “Canadian pacific” on the side.
It’s *very* mid, but not the worst
My only real problem with CPKC (aside from their name) is that their livery feels backwards. The angle up is towards the front on the conceptually-similar CSX YN2 and CN “hockey sticks” schemes, but at the back end on CPKC. Maybe it would have been too similar to the CN one if they had done it towards the front, but it still feels odd how it is.
@@TsalagiRailfan Honestly they shouldn't have gone with the renaming to CPKC, but rather kept the CP name only. Simply replace the "Canadian Pacific" titles on the sides of the previous livery with just "CP" and that would've been great.
FEC Railway is now just a Blue and Gray version of the Ferromex scheme since GrupoMexico owns the line.
Not gonna lie... Phase III on the F40PHs was the best scheme that Amtrak ever had.
I absolutely hate Amtrak’s new paint scheme
The difference between videographers and photographers is photographers would be picking dark schemes that blend in with green trees.
CSX YN3c 6/10 | BN tiger stripes 7/10 | UP small shield 5/10 | Ferromex's new scheme 5/10 | Amtrak phase 6 7/10 phase 7 8/10 | The CPKC scheme 4/10 |
phase v/ivb with an amtrak cascades set is terrifying
at least the phase vi transitions to the silver
The Cpkc scheme looks kinda like the locos from unstoppable
CN Wet Noodle is still the #1 railway livery in the world...60 years and still rockin' it ❤
We grew up in the wrong decade. The years before before all the various railroads merge and there was so much color and variety on the rails would've been quite the time to experience. I love the Chessie System, Seaboard Airline, BN green, PRR, and NYC that all had pretty great colors on their diesels.
5:00 as ugly as it looks I think it’s supposed to resemble the old CP rail scheme with the circle and triangle at the rear
My number 1 choice the original Santa Fe War bonnet and I loved the Chicago & Northwestern Green & Yellow from the 1960s until its demise in 1993
HOW DARE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT PUTTING SANTA FE ANYWHERE NEAR ONE OF THESE VIDEOS?!?!?!?
So, the reason they are going back to the old scheme is because when the locomotives started having issues and burning up the flag, they really did not like that. So they put the flag on the nose. And personally, I wish they left the wings on the front
"I don't like the new CPKC paint scheme!"
"Then why did you vote for it?"
That’s the fun part, we didn’t
-Doesn't throw VRE's Cab Cars under the bus by roasting the BN Tiger Stripe
-Roasts Ferromex's new scheme but not the FEC scheme that GrupoMexico also replaced
-Acts like Phase V was a superior scheme when it literally never mixed with Phase IV and III stuff
Weird question but what’s a good camera for railfanning that’s affordable
Ehh basically your phone, there's a few options under $500 but I can't say I recommend them because they're not good
Just quit yapping and oil tf up already lil bro 😭🙏
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Thumbnail on the video about to start twitching, I was about to punch my device from it
I'm gonna ruffle some feathers and say that IC *never* had a good paintscheme. It was like they went out of their way to choose the most visually appalling colors and they only got worse and worse as time went on (their steam locomotives were cool tho)
Also Rock Island's Bankruptcy Blue looks like crap and weathers even worse
CPKC new paint is literally reverse CN it absolutely sucks
Ngl I like the Amtrak blue, unless they go back to phase 3 or 4
but silver😭
CSX HUs are the worst paint schemes, ESPECIALLY the 1869 and the 1900 good god they're hideous
Keeping the nose and cab the same and only painting the long hood just kills the vibe
@@sharkheadism It does, but most of them are also not even historically accurate smh
@@Lambo.Hobbies I can give some leeway for artistic freedom to make proportions better on modern units, but a lot of the heritage colorways clash with the blue/yellow.
@@sharkheadism Yeah, these hus absolutely suck
The like for a free HU thing works, 5 days after this was uploaded I caught 301. Nice video btw 👍
Finally, someone who didn't put freaking NS paint schemes on here
If you don't get it, most people think NS has the worst paint cause its black and white but in my defense, between their horse logo and their whisker designs on the front and rear of their locomotives
Its way better than the paint schemes you mentioned in the video.
NS isn’t my favorite American railroad by a long shot, but their livery is great. It’s my second favorite livery of a modern railroad behind the BNSF H3s.
@@Rebel_Bricks exactly, an animal for a paint scheme goes hard 🔥
@@NS1221Productions fr
@@NS1221Productionsthe original advertisements for ns were cool to
Where it shows a horse pulling the train and it transitions into a train
I always thought the brackets around CSX on the YN3b scheme looked like they were designed in Microsoft Word.
[..CSX..] "how tomorrow moves"
CSX Stealth is the best CSX paint scheme, dont @ me.
It is honestly quite underrated, but I think YN2 is better, but hey it’s best to start small and simple.
@@thefs65ncfanI’ll give Csx that they tried to bring back the chessie yellow for yn3
I worked for Amtrak and CSX, so I think I have some standing here. Of the CSX schemes, I liked the YN2 best, and I thought the yellow highlighted letters on the AC 6000s was well done. The YN2 paint on the only SD80MAC to get it, #801, was just dramatic, especially the O-scale model of it. I understand why they simplified it for cost, which is why the Chessie System paint scheme disappeared as soon as the merger happened, it was a very expensive paint job to apply for the time, like $7,000 per unit in 1984 dollars, but it looked great when they were freshly done. There was something to be said for the 1960s B&O and C&O basic dark blue with yellow lettering and accent stripes or yellow nose (C&O), simple but well-done for a marginal road that was always looking to economize on expenses.
As for Amtrak, my all-time fav is the equal stripes Phase III. I think the new Phase VII scheme may be the best one since Phase III. And BTW, the Chargers are nowhere near as ugly as the GE Genesis units, no matter what color they were painted (I am partial to the F40PH "screamers", since they were what I worked around most of my career there). To most of us older fans, nothing is going to beat the 1950s EMD "Bulldog" nosed Es and Fs, but time marches on.
Oh, and my take on the CPKC scheme is that the font for the lettering makes it look like something out of the Soviet era.
0:30 i liked a now i got news of BNSF 9776 (executive mac) coming up to massachusetts
Make the Ferromex text black and swap the colours around on the nose and it's actually a decent scheme. Could have made the white trim and arrows green though to preserve it a little though.
Idk what your on but the new Amtrak looks great
Nah, CSX B scheme was the GOAT!
Amtraks New Scheme, The CPKFC Scheme Sucks, The BN Tiger Stripe Scheme Sucks, And The New Ferromex Locomotive Scheme Sucks
Where do you get your cameras I am look to by one and start recording trains since I live near Griffith Indiana where the CN Matteson sub and south bend sub cross
FXE's new scheme and Amtrak phase 7 I honestly think look really good; but I have to agree with you on the CPKC 😭
What about FEC? There newer paint scheme isn't good...
I literally started cooking at the CPKC scheme when it came out. Also just wait until those CPKC units run elephant style..
I think for CPKC they should just keep the locomotives as is, because KCS and CP are just to very iconic railroads, and were the last railroads still in existence without merging