Bowser is doing a fantasy run of the C430s in Lehigh Valley based on an Alco order proposal to the LV in July of 1968 that LV either chose not to excercise or Alco went out of business unable to fulfill it.
They've chosen to paint these units in tuscan red with one yellow stripe and small roman lettering, which is consistent with all LV repaints from about 1964 through 1970 or 1971.
But no LV unit was factory delivered in that scheme and I don't believe that's what these units would have appeared in. IMHO at the very least they would have had large lettering as the C420s did and the GP38ACs and other later units (and repaints) got. The tuscan scheme was basically leftover PRR paint and re-use of the stenciling design from LV's original paint scheme. Alternately, and very likely, they would have come in the same snowbird scheme as the C628s, the last of which were delivered not long before these units were proposed. And it's even possible they could have come in a new and entirely different scheme of some sort.
Just wondered if anyone else had an opinion? I'm presuming the proposal was just that, and never got far enough to see a painting diagram.
They've chosen to paint these units in tuscan red with one yellow stripe and small roman lettering, which is consistent with all LV repaints from about 1964 through 1970 or 1971.
But no LV unit was factory delivered in that scheme and I don't believe that's what these units would have appeared in. IMHO at the very least they would have had large lettering as the C420s did and the GP38ACs and other later units (and repaints) got. The tuscan scheme was basically leftover PRR paint and re-use of the stenciling design from LV's original paint scheme. Alternately, and very likely, they would have come in the same snowbird scheme as the C628s, the last of which were delivered not long before these units were proposed. And it's even possible they could have come in a new and entirely different scheme of some sort.
Just wondered if anyone else had an opinion? I'm presuming the proposal was just that, and never got far enough to see a painting diagram.