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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.

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  SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors SP 0-6-0 08-08-2017 - 10:17
  Re: SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors OPRRMS 08-08-2017 - 10:45
  Re: SPSF merger colors sklinck1 08-08-2017 - 15:02
  Re: SPSF merger colors Eugene 08-08-2017 - 15:07
  Re: SPSF merger colors sklinck1 08-08-2017 - 19:21
  Re: SPSF merger colors Eugene 08-08-2017 - 20:16
  Re: SPSF merger colors KI6WDX 08-09-2017 - 11:40
  Re: SPSF merger colors Boberama 08-09-2017 - 12:10
  Re: SPSF merger colors Eugene 08-09-2017 - 20:53
  Re: SPSF merger colors SP 0-6-0 08-10-2017 - 14:32
  Re: SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors Q 08-09-2017 - 20:45
  Re: SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors GRRR 08-10-2017 - 13:26
  Re: SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors Round and Round 08-10-2017 - 14:38
  Re: SW1500 wearing the SPSF merger colors Commenter 08-10-2017 - 17:25


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