03-14-2009, 05:53 AM
I may be wrong, but I think this is the paint scheme on Mike's loco:
![[Image: 003047.jpg]](http://www.udisco.com/hobbies/pics/003047.jpg)
as Wayne pointed out, this scheme was introduced in 1973, and remained unchanged until the units were retired in 1989.
The scheme they were painted in (and I don't know when Athearn first released this scheme) between the green and gold (which athearn also did) and their 1973 repaint, was the first "embarrassed zebra" scheme, which came in in 1961:
![[Image: ATH80393-250.jpg]](http://www.horizonhobby.com/ProdInfo/ATH/250/ATH80393-250.jpg)
If you have the first zebra scheme, then running 1940's vintage cars isn't so much of a stretch as with the later scheme.
as Wayne pointed out, this scheme was introduced in 1973, and remained unchanged until the units were retired in 1989.
The scheme they were painted in (and I don't know when Athearn first released this scheme) between the green and gold (which athearn also did) and their 1973 repaint, was the first "embarrassed zebra" scheme, which came in in 1961:
If you have the first zebra scheme, then running 1940's vintage cars isn't so much of a stretch as with the later scheme.