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Re: Green boilers?

January 02, 2008 11:46AM
Well I have seen the specs for the painting of the locomotives that the Grande had,and it also specified for the tires to be painted white. I have not seen to many pics if any with a large K-class with white tires--admittadly it would be hard to spot. I have access to one picture of the 461 which looks to have white trim around it's drivers but it's not conclusive. It appears that the green boiler scheme was indeed reserved for the standard gauge loco's--even though they specified the paint scheme it appears that ng loco's didn't get that treatment. Remember the Grande was in the process of abandoning or trying to abandon all ng lines in the 40's through the late 60's so why would they incur the extra expense of applying green boiler paint to it's K-class fleet? They didn't even apply this scheme to the K-28's who handled the San Juan and Shavano trains-and they were just as nice as any mainline sg passenger trains. Show me the photo evidence--that multiple loco's had green boilers in regular service. I'm not against it--but I'd rather see the loco's painted historically correct to represent history correctly. If it turns out that in the mid 30's all the 37's or 36's had green boilers through photo evidence then by all means lets paint them green--the correct color of green not some bright lime green, but until then all the photo/video evidence I have and have seen leads to the black boiler paint scheme. I also think that the Rocky tours may have paid some extra money to have the boilers green as well don't know for sure, not too sure what the agreement was with the Grande. And there are only 2 occasions when a Rocky tour got green boilers and both were out of Salida. All the Rocky tours out of Alamosa had black boiler engines. I'm not trying to shove anything down anybody's throat but just point out the historical correctness of the situation.

William
aka drgwk37



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2008 11:52AM by drgwk37.
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