First try on a locomotive

[faraway]

... I'm thinking it could still use a bit more overall "fade" through some lighter colored diluted washes.....

I thought about it as I did it with a white wash before on some boxcars. However the results on the boxcars have been very mixed and I did not understand why some come out well and some not. That is the reason I did not take that risk on my loved CF-7.
Because the white wash for fade out must be the fist step (black wash for dirt, rust etc. comes later) this engines are finished.