Re: ASR Locos

[telljb@ozemail.com.au (Tell)]

"Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
>Just like the old Vline colours, especially the Bs with the old teacup logo
>and then the Vline all over orange before they changed it to orange and
>grey.
>Also not unlike the NR colours.
>Just what is the fascination with orange in railway corporate colours? The
>new Vline Passenger colours are much classier and I agree with you about AN.
>The SRA candy colours were rather unusual for a railway and were in no way,
>apart from maybe visibility, an improvement over the brown and yellow of the
>NSWGR. The white and blue of the PTCNSW was a little better but a Navy blue
>would have been more striking than the blue they used. QRs colours have
>always been quite good too.


Orange might have something to do with *visiblity*.!

----Tell
Alice Springs NT