Something that should be done?

[PapaXpress]

Doing a Google search shows there were both green and orange, and black and orange.

[micaelcorleone]

Doing a Google search shows there were both green and orange, and black and orange.

After "extensive" research I also found out that the green and orange is called "Perlman Green Livery". (http://www.rattenne.com/WP/wp3544.htm)
In some cases it looks almost black.

But there seems to be also a black&orange, apllied to the last GP40-2s delivered to the WP.
Maybe they wanted to economize the cleaning of the locos by simply making them black. No more need to clean.


So now as this is clarified, someone wants to do a WP GP40? After this informative discussion with you all, I really want one.

[micaelcorleone]

So I contacted Nalle13 and he's a real WP expert.

He told me this:
"As for the WP liveries... that thread dealt primarily with hood units so we'll stick to that. The F's and switchers are a story by themselves... ;-)
There were three different basic paints:

The Zephyr scheme - silver and orange. Variations included black or silver lettering, some units had black anti-skid paint on top of the nose, some didn't.

Perlman Green: Dark green with orange lettering. Variations in the striping on the ends.

New Image: Dark green ( "greener" than the PG green and not quite as dark ) with orange lettering, nose/long hood end and cab sides ( green numbers ).

Then there were the oddball GP35 #3003 that was solid orange, akin to the "Pumpkin" F-units. the only hood unit to ever wear that scheme. And finally the Bicentennial units that were red, white and blue for a couple of years...
All schemes featured black underbodies and trucks.
There were never any black hood units. Only switchers were ever black."

Thank you Nalle.