Re: D&RGW (Moffat) green boilers on K-37s ... 
| September 17, 2014 09:33PM |
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Another (Gad)fly in the ointment -
1. IIRC, Mike Spera - master mechanic at the CRRM - discovered in the vaults of the theater
(still in working order) a telegram from the D&RGW to their paint supplier in Denver asking
for several gallons of dark olive green (Moffat Green) boiler jacket enamel for the K-37's.
(See the "Narrow Gauge Super Power" article in last fall's CRRM Iron Horse News.)
2. IMHO, it's really hard to imagine that the top brass at Burnham Shops would have been anything but EXTREMELY proud of the fantastic job that had been done in reverse-engineering the running gear of the K-36's, having appropriate castings poured and machined in Denver, and then assembling the K-37's as a 100% home-grown solution to D&RGW's motive power needs. It's equally hard to imagine that these locos would have left Burnham shops without being carefully painted in the D&RGW's mostly shiny black with their own Moffat Green jackets and aluminum lettering standard at that time. Perhaps a thorough search of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post newspapers of 1928 and 1930 would reveal the RR's public relations releases when these beautiful engines were shipped to Salida and Alamosa ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2015 11:22AM by Russo Loco.
1. IIRC, Mike Spera - master mechanic at the CRRM - discovered in the vaults of the theater
(still in working order) a telegram from the D&RGW to their paint supplier in Denver asking
for several gallons of dark olive green (Moffat Green) boiler jacket enamel for the K-37's.
(See the "Narrow Gauge Super Power" article in last fall's CRRM Iron Horse News.)
2. IMHO, it's really hard to imagine that the top brass at Burnham Shops would have been anything but EXTREMELY proud of the fantastic job that had been done in reverse-engineering the running gear of the K-36's, having appropriate castings poured and machined in Denver, and then assembling the K-37's as a 100% home-grown solution to D&RGW's motive power needs. It's equally hard to imagine that these locos would have left Burnham shops without being carefully painted in the D&RGW's mostly shiny black with their own Moffat Green jackets and aluminum lettering standard at that time. Perhaps a thorough search of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post newspapers of 1928 and 1930 would reveal the RR's public relations releases when these beautiful engines were shipped to Salida and Alamosa ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2015 11:22AM by Russo Loco.
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