Re: Images of 4908's new livery.

[Roy Marshall <marsh@zip.com.au>]

You would have to be looking very hard to see the 3801 Limited logo on
4401, and it will be the same on 4908.While the 38's need to be in
heritage colours why should that apply to all diesels in service? Look
at all of the other private operators around the place now like LVR
Freight, Great Northern, ATN etc etc. And as for Steamrail's S313 livery
I seem to recall that it was a"Santa Fe" style - very historical in an
Australian context! There are two other 49's running around in NSW at
present and these are in "candy" colours. 3801 is a tourist operation as
well as a heritage operator and a smart set of carriages with matching
loco helps to bring in money to keep the 38's in service!

Cheers Roy 
> 
> Lets put it this way, although I might criticize Steamrail for some of
> their policies (ie: non-removable headboard), this is much worse. Most
> of Steamrail's locos are painted in the proper livery and the ones that
> aren't at least look ok. I even prefer K190's pea green livery to this!
> The only modifications Steamrail has made to the old red livery on the
> carriages is the addition of a yellow stripe and using yellow lettering.
> I think this is much more reasonable than the over-done gunzel livery on
> that carriage behind 4908. Also, Steamrail doesn't put their logo over
> everything in sight like 3801 Ltd. The only thing with permanent logos
> is S313, and this is only a temporary livery.
> 
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