Boston MBTA HSP46 Paint Schemes!

[tyard]

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CP3NPYCGG/

You can go to this website and vote for how our new engines will look when they roll out. This link is also available right from the main page of the MBTA website. Voting will be closing at some point fairly soon.

I like that the T is letting us choose the paint scheme, but now that I see what this loco will probably look like, I can't hold back:
WHAT were they thinking?!?! Those things look atrocious and I even tend to like this sort of loco design (F59PHI, MP36/40, Genesis, even those odd looking F40PHMs Metra runs are all nice in my opinion). This though... well to me they look all wrong-the angles and proportions just don't look right.

With that said, I definitely respect (and hope) that some people will like these. While I couldn't hold back my opinion in here, the main point of this thread was to put this link out for any T fans who were not in "the know."

Enjoy,
tyard

EDIT: PS. I voted for option one personally. While I usually am not too traditional, that purple and black nose almost doesn't look like a T train from the front (it needs a bit of silver in my opinion). Feel free to share your votes, I'd be interested to see what people think!

 

[simulatortrain]

Yeah, I'm looking at these, going "ugly... ugly... or ugly..."

The photo/render looks all right, I just don't care for any MBTA paint in general. In another scheme I'd almost say I like it.

 

[tyard]

Ya, T paint is probably something of an acquired taste
I've grown up with it, so it's OK to me.

As far as the render, looking closely at it again I may have been a little too harsh. The side view actually looks kinda nice-pretty similar to an MP36. The front views look too square-ish, which upon further thought, may well just be the drawing more than the actual, physical design.

I suppose we will all know the answers when these things are actually rolling in a couple of years!

 

[wilh]

Not to offend anyone but I'm on the same page as SimulatorTrain, they're all really ugly.

 

[JCitron]

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CP3NPYCGG/

You can go to this website and vote for how our new engines will look when they roll out. This link is also available right from the main page of the MBTA website. Voting will be closing at some point fairly soon.

I like that the T is letting us choose the paint scheme, but now that I see what this loco will probably look like, I can't hold back:
WHAT were they thinking?!?! Those things look atrocious and I even tend to like this sort of loco design (F59PHI, MP36/40, Genesis, even those odd looking F40PHMs Metra runs are all nice in my opinion). This though... well to me they look all wrong-the angles and proportions just don't look right.

With that said, I definitely respect (and hope) that some people will like these. While I couldn't hold back my opinion in here, the main point of this thread was to put this link out for any T fans who were not in "the know."

Enjoy,
tyard

EDIT: PS. I voted for option one personally. While I usually am not too traditional, that purple and black nose almost doesn't look like a T train from the front (it needs a bit of silver in my opinion). Feel free to share your votes, I'd be interested to see what people think!

I voted for number 1 also. It has the best feel out of the others. The zigzag lightning stripe has enough space around it to give some direction to the paint scheme. The other two are too purple and look blah to me.

I can't wait to see which one ends up on the rails. I don't ride the train often from Haverhill, but I see the T in action periodically on my commute between Haverhill and Burlington.

John

 

[mrreet]

Yeah, I'm looking at these, going "ugly... ugly... or ugly..."

The photo/render looks all right, I just don't care for any MBTA paint in general. In another scheme I'd almost say I like it.

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I voted for the one i felt was the least ugly :hehe: