Between what years did the Western Pacific GP-7's wear the green livery with orange lettering and numbering?

Question

As per the Lifelike Proto 2000 model.

Answer 1

Steamy,

I don't have exact dates off-hand but that livery, called Pearlman Green for the railroad's last president, Al Pearlman, was used during the last 10 years or so of the railroad's existence (Pearlman became president in 1971 and WP was merged into Union Pacific in 1982).

Answer 2

Hmmm. I'm not sure on this one.

I know I began my railroad career in 1971 with the Sacramento Northern (formerly Northern Electric) which at the time was a wholly owned subsidiary of the WP. At that time, both the SN 702 and 704 was painted in the green and orange livery.

I went to work for the Southern Pacific later that year, and the SN had track-age rights over a portion of the valley Sud-division, where I saw that these engines maintained that paint scheme until the SN's ultimate demise, which came about sometime in the late 70's. The WP was using the same paint scheme.

I saw more WP power in Stockton, Ca., whose yard ran parallel to that of the SP, and I saw the green and orange paint scheme there, as well. This too was in the latter 70's. At the time, the WP was still running the "covered wagon" EMD F7's.

Ah..... the good ol' days...........

Answer 3

I couldn't find the exact answer to your question.

One source mentioned that the WP's SW1500's were actually painted in three different Harriman Green paint schemes.
< http://www.wprrhs.org/wpqanda.html > says that 'as delivered', SW1500's sported an olive green color, which was changed to a lighter green around 1971, and followed by a Dupont Sterling Polyurethane green in 1973. That information was attributed to the book "D-Day on the WP" by Virgil Staff.

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Answer 4

The Perlman green was used in 1972