Re: SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 08-08-2017 - 10:45
SP 0-6-0 Wrote:
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> If you got to see an SP end cab switcher in red
> and yellow, you were lucky. Apparently only two
> of them were so-painted.
Four SP end-cab switchers painted SPSF:
SW900E: 1192
SW1500: 2539 2575
MP15DC: 2700
>
> I just spent a minute reading about the use of red
> and yellow in graphic arts and branding. Red is
> considered aggressive, energetic, provocative and
> attention grabbing. Yellow communicates optimism,
> positivism, light and warmth. Banks and financial
> institutions stay away from those colors,
> prefering blue, which conveys stability and calm.
The red and yellow were used because they were one color from each of the two component railroads.