Big Blue has inspired some purchases

[TMo]

Last night I hit the plow with a coat of paint, tonight was number board install night.  Arial 8 point white numbers on a black background and printed onto some CD labels and then sliced to size with my Olfa knife.  I made about 10 of the number selected, and most of them were two attempts per board trying to get the right size of sticker.  Still haven't done my paint touchups.  Decals did come today - might get to them tomorrow night.  Starting to look like something.  As much as I like Alcos, I've also grown to like the angles and furrowed brow of the EMDs of this era.  The big porch SD40's also a pretty cool feature.  I bet the engineers at the time looked at this new Conrail power and thanked their lucky stars after their early struggles trying to keep the old fleets running.