Re: D&RGW Roof walks. Painted on a 4 engine stock extra going up Marshall Pass
| January 23, 2018 05:01PM |
TonyK375 Wrote:
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> This comes up quite a bit. The Grande used rough
> sawn (unfinished) lumber for roof walks, but they
> were painted. I've worked on a couple of dozen
> cars which were untouched since Grande days and
> every one showed sign of painted roof walks. I
> can't imagine where they would not have painted
> them to preserve. Isn't the word that they
> switched to Pullman green because it lasted
> longer? Dick Dorman and I used to laugh about
> this all the time. He had numerous color pictures
> and slides from Chione, Maxwell and a entire
> series from Rasmussen taken from cabooses that
> clearly show the roof walks were painted. They
> got a lot of abuse from traffic, weather and soot
> so they wore fast but were all painted.
Here is a grab from my copy of "Taking Stock" showing a 4 engine train blasting up Marshall Pass. 496, 490 on the point and unseen are 495 in the middle and 498 on the rear ahead of the caboose. As Tony pointed out the roof walks are painted as seen in this photo. What a show this must have been going up the 4%!!!!!
William
aka drgwk37
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> This comes up quite a bit. The Grande used rough
> sawn (unfinished) lumber for roof walks, but they
> were painted. I've worked on a couple of dozen
> cars which were untouched since Grande days and
> every one showed sign of painted roof walks. I
> can't imagine where they would not have painted
> them to preserve. Isn't the word that they
> switched to Pullman green because it lasted
> longer? Dick Dorman and I used to laugh about
> this all the time. He had numerous color pictures
> and slides from Chione, Maxwell and a entire
> series from Rasmussen taken from cabooses that
> clearly show the roof walks were painted. They
> got a lot of abuse from traffic, weather and soot
> so they wore fast but were all painted.
Here is a grab from my copy of "Taking Stock" showing a 4 engine train blasting up Marshall Pass. 496, 490 on the point and unseen are 495 in the middle and 498 on the rear ahead of the caboose. As Tony pointed out the roof walks are painted as seen in this photo. What a show this must have been going up the 4%!!!!!
William
aka drgwk37
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