Olympian Hiawatha Erie Builts

[jdg]

Peteski - actually exported it as a tiff and everything looked good. When I went to upload it on my MAC it didn't like the tiff so i exported the tiff as a PDF. Thus the reason it looks bad.

[jdg]

Here's is a shot of the first print.  Two out of four nose logos came out good.  The other 2 not so good. I actually tried printing them on the two machines I have.  The MD5000 did not print as well as the MD1000 for some reason.

Here's the layers I print:
White (all)
Metallic Silver
CMYK (for MILW Maroon)
Gold
Black

Waiting on my Model Flex Milw Maroon paint to show in the mail.  I have coded the CMYK for the Model Flex Milw Maroon color for now.  I also have a bottle of True Color Milw Maroon and it is close.

-Jeff

[peteski]

Those do look nice (from what I can see in a small photo).  Using CYMK colors on Alps results in the dreaded halftone dot pattern in the color areas.  When I was printing some Milwaukee decals for Ron Bearden I tried to come up with a solid maroon color match using multiple layers of spot color inks but I couldn't quite get a good enough match.  But in Ron's decals the maroon was only as a fill for the lettering, so it was not like there were large areas of maroon to see.

What part of the printout from the 5000 doesn't look as good as when done on a 1000?

[jdg]

The Maroon CMYK part missed some on both printers but for some reason the 5000 missed a little more. It may not have missed now that I look at it closer.  It may have actually been scratched off during one of the other layers being printed.

Gonna try printing the nose herald without the maroon.  I will just paint the maroon completely on the loco and all should match then too.  Since I have the layer in Corel separately I can use it as a template for masking.  Should come out pretty good that way.

[Iain]

Where/when did these run, just out of curiosity?

[Missaberoad]

Where/when did these run, just out of curiosity?

This scheme was used 1946-1950 and they were originally assigned to the Olympian Hiawatha (obviously  ) between Minneapolis and Tacoma including over the electrified sections.

However soon after delivery they could be found all over the system in passenger service, until they were retired en mass in January 1963.

[Iain]

This scheme was used 1946-1950 and they were originally assigned to the Olympian Hiawatha (obviously  ) between Minneapolis and Tacoma including over the electrified sections.

However soon after delivery they could be found all over the system in passenger service, until they were retired en mass in January 1963.

Welp, as I'm in Seattle now, and I do like Erie Builts ....

[jdg]

So, here's the first one with some decals applied.  Printed color matches Model Flex pretty well I think.

[u18b]

Where/when did these run, just out of curiosity?

1948-49 was an interesting year.  If you wanted to go from Chicago to Seattle, you would ride the Olympian Hiawatha, train 16.

You would leave Chicago pulled by a trio of Erie Builts if it had extra sleepers, or a pair of A-A Erie builts if it was a lighter train..
Then, when you got to electrification, your power would switch to a Quill (big electric box-cab).
Then to the "gap" in Idaho where electrification stopped.  It was night time, and a big black steam loco pulled you.
Once the gap was crossed, electrification picked back up again in Othello Washington where an EP-2 class bipolar electric took over and took you all the rest of the way.

To my knowledge, this was the only train that was pulled by all three kinds of power (diesel, steam, and electric) all on the SAME train.

[Missaberoad]

Here's a wonderful Otto Perry shot of Erie builts out west under wire! 
http://www.american-rails.com/images/SPKNCN3s9301.jpg

[jdg]

Had to mod the decals some, the grill was about 3/64" too short.