Re: Blinders, Skirts and Skyline Casings in Silverton ... 
| November 05, 2009 02:59PM |
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Hi, Chris -
The AC-9s - like the GS-6s - were built by Lima with skyline casings and streamlined pilots similar to the Daylights, but no skirts.* Most of S.P.'s 4-8-2s, built in the mid-to-late nineteen-twenties (many of them in Sacramento), were given skyline casings in the forties, but no additional streamlining was applied so, IMHO, they would be a better "prototype" for 'Silverton Daylight' engines. A few of them, used primarily on the San Joaquin Daylight, did receive red-and-orange Daylight paint on their cabs and tenders.
The first of S.P.'s 4-8-2s were built by Baldwin, and - although much larger - had those classic mid-twenties lines and smokebox fronts similar to the K-36s. So it's only natural that the K-36s - and not the K-28s - should be given skyline casings similar to S.P.'s 4-8-2s . . .
- Russo
p.s. Ed should - by now - know better than to take me too seriously.
* Here's a builder's photo of the first AC-9, which I believe once hung in Lima's west coast office in Seattle - sent to me by a friend many years ago:
My interpretation of how she might have looked in a formal black skirt:
. . . and in Freedom Train colors:
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2017 12:02PM by Russo Loco.
The AC-9s - like the GS-6s - were built by Lima with skyline casings and streamlined pilots similar to the Daylights, but no skirts.* Most of S.P.'s 4-8-2s, built in the mid-to-late nineteen-twenties (many of them in Sacramento), were given skyline casings in the forties, but no additional streamlining was applied so, IMHO, they would be a better "prototype" for 'Silverton Daylight' engines. A few of them, used primarily on the San Joaquin Daylight, did receive red-and-orange Daylight paint on their cabs and tenders.
The first of S.P.'s 4-8-2s were built by Baldwin, and - although much larger - had those classic mid-twenties lines and smokebox fronts similar to the K-36s. So it's only natural that the K-36s - and not the K-28s - should be given skyline casings similar to S.P.'s 4-8-2s . . .
- Russo
p.s. Ed should - by now - know better than to take me too seriously.
* Here's a builder's photo of the first AC-9, which I believe once hung in Lima's west coast office in Seattle - sent to me by a friend many years ago:
My interpretation of how she might have looked in a formal black skirt:
. . . and in Freedom Train colors:
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2017 12:02PM by Russo Loco.
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