Those accustomed to Rock Island in maroon or red were startled in 1975 when the road’s new president John Ingram started painting cars and locomotives in white and blue. But Ingram had come out of marketing and sales (IC, NYC) and figured the Rock, which had just entered bankruptcy, needed a fresh new look. So here on June 8, 1975, comes new image GP7 4517 with old image U33B 196 headed east at Colona, Illinois, on a short freight. The paint isn’t all that’s new: Just a few weeks before this picture the 4517 entered the road’s Silvis shop as 1274, one of the first pf the road's old and tired – and maroon -- geeps to receive a major rebuilding.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
