QUOTE(milepost56 @ Aug 5 2009, 4:29 PM)

Looks awesome Rick especially after the wait.
Thanks. These engines are very special. If you notice in the pictures, the radiator screen is much larger than normal. Why, I don't really know. But MKT ordered 20 of these special. Most of them went on to larger flags, and then either got parked or were sold to small regionals. If you look up the MKT GP39 at RR pictures, you can see the order numbers and her sisters.
Paul and I wanted to do something different and paint at least this one (if not all 20) in their original MKT, and each successive paint to date. For this particular engine, that meant the MKT, UP and this paint. I think that would have been a great project - a "history of" paint set.
Maybe we can convince some of the better painters out there to help out.
This is "Katy's" birthday suit.

Rick