September 19, 2017 07:27PM
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AwPinales Wrote:
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> Here's the real controversy. Was the tri-color
> herald always blue? I don't think so. I honestly
> believe a green tri-color herald was used to match
> the boilers. Not in all cases, but here and there.
Well, Al -
The story I vaguely remember reading a few years ago is that the Salida shop crew painted the tri-color heralds with blue outside and red inside, and the Alamosa shop crews, just to be different, painted them the opposite (or maybe it was vice-versa). I have never heard of a green herald, either the Moffat Tunnel version or the Moffat Tunnel / Royal Gorge Route version, but non-existence of proof is not proof of non-existence.
As to the long-settled green jacket controversy, SFAIK the current consensus by recognized historians is that the D&RGW was so proud of their home-built K-37s (converted from standard-gauge 2-8-0's in 1928 and 1930) that they had them painted in their finest livery of the era, which included dark olive Moffat Green boiler jacket enamel on all jackets (boiler, cylinder and air pump). Mike Spera noted in his CRRM article on the rebuilding of #491 that he had uncovered the order from Burnham Shops to the RR's usual supplier of paint requesting "green jacket enamel for the K-37's", and although I vehemently disagree with Bob LeMassena's after-the-fact attempt to convert mallets & articulateds to Beyer-Garrets, I'll certainly accept his eye-witness account of K-37 jacket color as being true. It is also generally agreed that the K-36's were delivered from Baldwin with black jackets, and
only one K-36 ever had a Moffat Green boiler jacket during her Rio Grande days – #489 – which was specially painted for a Rocky Club excursion on the Monarch Branch and over Poncha Pass on May 21, 1950. I for one assume that #489 wore this green jacket for several months afterward, as there was little incentive for the D&RGW to pay for re-re-painting her after the charter, but so far as I know no photos have surfaced of #489 later in 1950 (or early 1951) that clearly show her with a green jacket. OTOH, one trip through the snowshed on Marshall Pass or the two tunnels on Cumbres Pass would easily have sufficed to completely mask a dark green jacket with even darker soot
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- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2017 07:51PM by Russo Loco.
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