what is the "technical" term for these two color schemes. I.E. the BNSF has H1, H2, Swoosh/H3.

Color one.

http://brahamfireman.rrpicturearchives. ... id=1312567

Color two.

http://brahamfireman.rrpicturearchives. ... id=1249524

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Ugly, and uglier.

Sorry... I had to. I'm not a huge fan of CSX.

I belive I heard the term "Dark Future" or something used for the mostly blue paint scheme.

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Boring 1

Boring 2

???

http://www.bullsheet.com/key-to-symbols/paint.html

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John Fladung
Saint Paul, MN

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The second one is called "Dark Future" I believe.

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Will
CP Superior, WI

Ouch! So much hatred towards a railroad that still sports variety, shame on you! I don't remember the last time I shot any BNSF SD40-2 or an Oakway on the NTWGAL! But, I do know that you can find CSX SD40-2's and SD50(-2's) leading mainline trains on a semi-regular basis. Good luck shooting any spartan cab on a road train on the BNSF and UP up here, heck, even one on the CP would be tough. Anyway, enough with my rant.

The first scheme is YN2, or Bright Future. Used from 1992 I believe all the way until 2002 when they switched to the new scheme. The new Blue scheme is YN3, or Dark Future. YN=Yellow Nose.

CSX has painted alot of their older schemed' units lately, but here is the YN1 scheme, which was the scheme right after Stealth. On Stealth and the later scheme with Blue added, the yellow noses were applied after they wanted to make a higher visibilty push.
http://wctransfer.rrpicturearchives.net ... id=1642097

Yup, just an SD45-2 passing a CPL signal on the CSX on the 14th of this month. No big deal

Alec

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EMD SD40 1966-1971

Woops... Silly me for not seeing the link..

Alec

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EMD SD40 1966-1971

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Decrepit? Oh, ya, I guess these are pretty rough looking.
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1363858

Alec

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EMD SD40 1966-1971

seriously guys who cares. Yes they do run alot of old power, alot when compared to the one major and two minor players we have here in town, and yes some of there units are pretty ratty looking. All i wanted was what the general railfan term was for the color scheme.

I'm just not a CSX fan in general because there from out east.

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Well, of course they aren't all dinner eating material, but since around November of last year they have painted atleast 15 of them, so a large number of all the ones running are in Dark Future now.

Alec

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EMD SD40 1966-1971

I think, in general, power models and paint schemes can be mutually exclusive. I would rather see a C8-40 or U25B in any scheme or even peeling paint. Although, having said that, some paint schemes are synonymous with a certain model.

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Here is reason enough to like the CSX, not matter how old a units paint might be. http://wc_sd45_7500.rrpicturearchives.n ... id=1641980

The old family lines paint is coming out on this baby, and its heritage is former L&N as well. With that being said I have been told that this is probably one of two CSX SD40-2s painted in all stealth with no blue.

Douglas
New Brighton, MN
http://www.youtube.com/user/SD457500