Editing Seaboard System Railroad (section)

==Equipment colors and painting==
After creation of the Family Lines name, SCLI begin painting locomotives in a standardized paint scheme. When the Seaboard System came into being, the new scheme retained the grey, red, and yellow colors were of the Family Lines scheme. The new Seaboard System also had a new logo featuring a coupled variation font of [[International Typeface Corporation|ITC]] [[Eras (typeface)|Eras Demi]]. The first locomotive to be decorated with the new Seaboard System paint scheme was Uceta [[GP16]] #4802 in October 1982. Because the merger did not occur until December, locomotives after October 1982 were to receive the Seaboard System paint scheme with the existing railroad's reporting marks applied.<ref name=heritage/><ref name=Moodys>''[[Moody's Transportation Manual]]'', 1992, pp. xxii-xxiv, 421-428, 451</ref>

When the merger officially took effect on January 1, 1983, all former reporting marks were to be either removed or patched with SBD initials. Shortly before taking delivery of the L&N specified [[EMD SD50]]'s, Seaboard adopted a [[Helvetica|Swis721]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://trainiax.net/me36-logo.php |title=1:36 Drawings - Text and Logos |access-date=2012-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709064104/http://trainiax.net/me36-logo.php |archive-date=2012-07-09 |url-status = dead}}</ref> type font for reporting marks and numbers, instead of the customized [[Seaboard Coast Line]] lettering seen on pre-1983 repaints. To simplify its locomotive roster and meet Chessie System specifications, Seaboard introduced a numbering system that partially became meshed within the Chessie System locomotive fleet, and removed any existing [[Mars Light]]s or [[Mars Light#Gyralite|Gyralights]] from locomotives. Any new locomotives purchased by Seaboard would be built to meet Chessie specifications; of which only three, [[EMD SD50]], [[EMD MP15T]] and [[GE B36-7]], were ordered.