We’ve seen several paintings by Harry Bockewitz, but here are five more we haven’t seen. First are a few paintings that apparently were done on speculation.

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This one shows a four-unit FT painted black with a broad yellow stripe and room for a circular logo on the nose. The painting is dated January 20, 1944. While several railroads could have used a paint scheme like this, this seems overly simplistic for the 1940s and would have been more suited for the 1960s when railroads were simplifying their paint schemes.

Source: Soulis.

Here’s a much nicer paint scheme for the 1940s. While the bodies are predominantly black, the nose stripes are sufficiently interesting and leave room for a circular railroad logo. This painting isn’t actually signed by Bockewitz but is clearly his work.

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Here’s a truly awful paint scheme that was supposedly a “Wisconsin Freight proposal.” I’m not sure what that means; as near as I can tell, Wisconsin Central never owned any FT locomotives. Like the front of an Edsel, the nose design looks like a vagina (or, more properly, a vulva), which may be what repulsed Wisconsin Central from buying any F locomotives. It is signed H.U. Bockewitz and appears to be dated April 1944.

Source: Palumbo.

Here’s a suitable-for-data-card painting of a Southern Railway E7. Bockewitz’s signature is hidden in the ballast below the front wheel of the locomotive. The paint scheme uses the same colors as Southern’s E6 but is much simplified from that locomotive’s busy swoops and stripes. This paint scheme was good enough to endure at least to 1977. Southern bought seventeen E7 A units to join the four E6 As and four E6 Bs it already owned.

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This painting was used to make the data card shown here a few weeks ago. Compared with the Southern painting, Bockewitz’s signature is a little more prominently located in the vegetation near the lower left corner of the picture, but it was low enough that only “Harry” showed on the data card.

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Bockewitz used a much more elegant signature on this painting of an SW8 switch engine purchased by the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway in 1953. CRANDIC, as it is known, started out as an interurban passenger line but switched to freight in the year it bought this switch engine. For some reason, it chose to paint its locomotives the same as Union Pacific’s even though UP’s nearest line was, in 1953, 250 miles away.