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MSRRKevin

July 22, 2019 02:05PM

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Regarding green boiler jackets - I know this is a source of debate amongst regular service locomotives, but I do have a question/comment regarding RMRR club excursions.

I will assume that since RMRR club specifically requested that their excursion locomotive to be painted green, that meant it was black in regular service, otherwise they would not have made the request. But it sounds to me like on at least 3, if not 4 trips they specifically requested a green boiler jacket. Why would they request this? Did someone in the club have an affinity for green, or were the club members trying to recreate the boiler colors they saw a decade or more prior? Of course they could have liked the green they saw on D&RGW SG locomotives, and wanted to see it on NG too...

My point: You can probably read a little into the very fact that the RMRR club requested green boiler jackets for their excursions in the late 1940s...

Kevin

PS - 340 above is green, but I would not call it "dark olive green"

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Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	JeffryBerri	July 21, 2019 12:25PM
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Re: 340 in Montrose	davidtltc	July 24, 2019 05:59PM
Re: 340 in Montrose	Jeff Taylor	July 25, 2019 07:34PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Herb Kelsey	July 21, 2019 01:45PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Russo Loco	July 21, 2019 03:11PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Tomstp	July 22, 2019 08:55AM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	James	July 22, 2019 09:28AM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	MSRRKevin	July 22, 2019 02:05PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Earl	July 22, 2019 02:31PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Russo Loco	July 22, 2019 06:31PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Tomstp	July 22, 2019 10:07AM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	Russo Loco	July 22, 2019 11:11AM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	hank	July 23, 2019 08:44AM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	Kelly Anderson	July 23, 2019 08:59AM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	Greg Scholl	July 25, 2019 08:24PM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	Russo Loco	July 23, 2019 10:55AM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	James	July 23, 2019 11:54AM
Re: Green Boiler Jackets - and wide tires - on the D&RGW	Brian Norden	July 24, 2019 09:08PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	guymonmd	July 22, 2019 12:01PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	guymonmd	July 22, 2019 12:35PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	drgwk37	July 22, 2019 03:23PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Jeff Taylor	July 22, 2019 03:41PM
You have to wonder...	John K	July 23, 2019 06:42PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Dirk Ramsey	July 23, 2019 06:41AM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	drgwk37	July 22, 2019 03:34PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Earl	July 22, 2019 04:05PM
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Re: 498 With Green and Red	Johnson Barr	July 24, 2019 09:44PM
Re: 498 With Green and Red	Dirk Ramsey	July 25, 2019 04:31AM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	Tomstp	July 22, 2019 08:31PM
Re: Green Boiler Jacket on the D&RGW in 1951	guymonmd	July 23, 2019 07:27AM

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