Re: Green Boiler Jackets - deja vu all over again . . .

Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Have you seen the colour version of this?
> [digital.denverlibrary.org]
> collection/p15330coll22/id/46718/rec/14
> [attachment 56569 OP-7566_455.JPG]

davidtltc Wrote:
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> What is the date on this Chris?  455 looks to have
> been rebuilt fairly recently, look at the newness of
> the cylinder set, this has to be in the later 1920's
> or early 1930's.  Nice find.


Click on the DPL link, Dave -

And you'll see that the photo of #455 was taken in Alamosa on September 1st, 1930.

Not to throw yet another green log on the fire, but I'm guessing that the arrival of the "brand new" green-jacketed K-37's from Denver earlier that year inspired the crew at Alamosa to apply the D&RGW's official standard for painting freight locomotives when #455 was in for major servicing ("green boiler jacket enamel" on not only the boiler jacket but also the cylinder jackets and the jacket over the steam side of the air pump).  As mentioned above, see [ngdiscussion.net] for an Otto Perry photo of #497 in April of that year.

- Sincerely, Willie  (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)  
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