September 20, 2017 01:24PM
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Dave Peterson Wrote:
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> It seems to me that now the main point of con-
> tention is that no K-36's were ever painted in
> green boiler jackets, nor were any engines be-
> sides the K-37's and that maybe the K-37's only
> wore green when [they were] standard gauge en-
> gines. I'd guess that some serious examination
> of surviving locomotives with original boiler jack-
> ets might solve the "problem" (or maybe not . . . ).
Hello again -
As noted above, "
The current consensus among objective historians seems to be that the D&RGW was so proud of their ten home-built K-37s (converted from standard-gauge 2-8-0's in 1928 & 1930) that they had them painted in their finest livery of the era, which included dark olive Moffat Green boiler jacket enamel on boiler jackets, aluminum leaf lettering and aluminum trim. It is also generally agreed that only one K-36 ever had a Moffat Green boiler jacket during the 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'm somewhat surprised that no newspaper articles have been unearthed from the morgues of either the
Denver Post or the
Rocky Mountain News concerning these 'brand-new' locomotives. The D&RGW was apparently rather proud of building them in-house by reverse-engineering the running gear of the Baldwin K-36's purchased a few years earlier, and it's hard to believe that the RR wouldn't have sought as much publicity as possible, especially in those days. OTOH, considering the propensity for newspaper reporters to get the details wrong, maybe it's just as well that there isn't "positive proof that the jackets were orange" if one of the new engines had been displayed at sunset.*
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Roosso
* The beautifully painted engines at Promontory Point come to mind – apparently plannished iron reflects blue sky quite well
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/2017 05:28PM by Russo Loco.
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