Re: NNG: UP Colorado Springs caboose question

gothpapa Wrote:
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> I just remembered this picture I took from the CZ
> obs four or five years ago (or maybe that was four
> or five decades). Is the 01513 sporting a faded
> out version of this color?

Nope not a faded out version.

The caboose in your photo is of an earlier Rio Grande caboose paint scheme. Like this:



It was later changed to this simpler scheme:




But the 01513 repaint is not exactly authentic. The orange they used is way too orange. Almost BNSF orange. And strangely they included the silver bottom part from the early paint scheme...like the caboose in your photo.

To be accurate, 01513 probably should have been re-painted like this:



But at least she got some tender loving care. And a unique paint scheme is better then the old graffiti dirty scheme she had prior to the volunteer repaint.

Matt
Lake Forest, CA
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