Re: JACKET WARS OVER - GREENIES VINDICATED ...

Bill Scobie Wrote:
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> Well Roosso -
> looks like I got the colour war going again.

Not really, Bill -   General Spera won the final battle more than two years ago when he uncovered the telegram from a Burnham
Shops supervisor to the D&RGW's paint supplier ordering several gallons of dark olive ('Moffat Green') paint "for the K-37s".
(See Mike's article "Narrow Gauge Super Power" on pp 6 & 7 of the Fall 2013 edition of CRRM's 'IRON HORSE NEWS'.)

> But I have looked at many photos in many of
> the books I have and you can see there is a
> difference in the colour of the boiler on both
> standard gauge as well as narrow gauge engines
> to support the green colour.  Back in 1977 I got
> into the Burnham shops where I meant a older shop
> worker who remembers that the boilers were painted
> green. We asked what class of engine he said all
> of them.  He will not be with us today so he can't
> back up what is been said.  And there is still
> that document that showed up on the site back when
> we were full go doing 489 and it does a lot to back
> up the green boiler argument.   {See Above.}


I had forgotten that spec sheet, Bill -

Thanks again for posting it.  Along with the telegram that Mike Spera found, it leaves little doubt as to the K-37's "Birthday Suits".  OTOH, I'm not surprised that so few enginemen who worked in the 1930's remember them as having green jackets - it's a really dark color to begin with, and one trip working hard through a tunnel would completely hide the jacket under a good coat of soot and grime.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



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