Re: Who said there's no variety these days?

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Would the original orange V/Line livery been based on the orange teacup 
livery, just painted over?

I have also seen the MTH cars in a different orange livery (white lining 
across the windows IIRC) Would that have been from the teacup days?

Thanks
Michael



Michael Walker said in message <936539529.268198@diddley.primus.com.au>, I 
therefore quote:

>>It takes time to grow on you.... I'll have to admit, when i first saw it,
>>it looked repulsive. I think that's because of the horrible excuse of a
>>typeface used in the V/Line logo. Orange and grey also suit the N class
>>locos better. As for the A/P/Y, put them back to their old VR livery...
>>in the case of the P class, put the cab back half a metre, and drop it to
>>the height of the rest of the unit, also rename it to a T class :-)
>>
>The orange and grey were certainly an improvement on the orange tea cup
>livery and both were better than the appalling plain orange livery that
>first came with Vline! (For an idea, look at any Vline timetable booklet
>circa 1981-1984 or thereabouts, there used to be a picture of an orange
>liveried A or B class pulling a train on the cover)
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