I should have included 4457 in the last post but better late than never, this loco also got the gun yesterday...

without the obvious perspective here with 4457 parked on the kitchen table and no I haven't bothered revering the fuel tanks to opposite sides (yet) is the weathering is a perspective for the layout. Many who are into modelling would look at the trains on the layout and think OMG why spoil a shiny fresh looking loco or rolling stock with black out over the loco's in particular? The obvious is or I should say was out west the railways didn't bother with the image presented on the main southern or Newcastle lines, that is with the exception of stainless steel passenger trains, the rest local passenger and goods rolling stock varied in condition and never seen a bucket of suds and a sponge hahaha.
What drew my attention over the years is a fair number of loco's looked like burn outs still running, and when they did receive some attention in a loco shed it was basic wax mixed with diesel to budge the blackened exhaust and oil from an enamel paint job down the sides, after a week or so from the loco shed wax and a lush type of shine up... they then looked dull and faded, after a few visits to the wax bucket brigade eager to remove build up from the paint; the paint started dissolving as enamel didn't have a long life span, anyway the up shot is trains working west look nothing like trains on the coast lines for sure.
Railway pride didn't much have a place with the first and second generation Goodwin Alco loco's 44-442 and 80 included till the great SRA auction and sell off in 1994 did trains out west start looking different with private operators updating and refurbish of GM's the survivors still running main line now fifty years with two pack paint jobs, the eye catcher now is the variety of livery and spotting 422 class now renumbered out and about, the Goodwin loco's now a memory are either scrapped of stored with only a few exceptions still out there in the vast west decaying into history.