Did any of the ALCo S-2s ever receive the later style FRISCO lettering & numbers? I don't know what to call the lettering type set or font style used on the EMD, Baldwin and F-M diesel switchers. Ken Meteor910
Re: 290-297 (Lettering Styles) Ken, Just saw this post from a while back. I checked the Springfield-Greene County Library collection on line and no S-2 photos there. Mike Condren has a "Paint Shop" column under construction his website. Thanks, Mike! He references scheme FR-S4d, applied to NW2s and S-2s and using "Roman" lettering. The S-2s were actually delivered in FR-S4e, which had the painted coonskin with unit number. Interesting, the Fallen Flags website has a solitary photo of an S-2 SLSF 294. Unknown photographer, in 1967 at Birmingham in the Roman lettering. http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/slsf/slsf294.jpg I am wanting to think I have seen this photo elsewhere?
I was just looking at pictures of Alco S-2 locomotives on the internet. I noticed that New York, Susquehanna & Western (NYSW) S-2s shared virtually the same paint scheme as the old Northeast Oklahoma (NEO) Railroad S-2s These units ended up as SLSF 295, 296, 297 and 298. The first 3 units were Alco S-2s and the last was an Alco S-4. Take a look at images taken from the Frisco Archive and the RRPicturesArchive.
That is an amazing similarity. I wonder if there is a reason other than it looks fairly good. Could there have been someone who worked for both NEO and NYS&W that influenced the paint schemes?
More likely that is a standard ALCo "catalog" paint scheme that ALCo offered that both railroads happened to choose. EMD also offered "catalog" paint schemes.
