Re: Klondike Mines #1

Everett Lueck Wrote:
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> Looks like a Russia Iron, or Planished Iron color
> on the boiler jacket of the builders photo.


It certainly was. Painted jackets weren't in common use yet, at least not in the U.S. Per Brooks practice of the late 1870's/early 1880's era you'd be looking at brass boiler bands, or iron upon customer request, brass or painted iron cylinder and dome casings, and usually painted cabs on freight power or varnished hardwood on passenger power, although either was again dependent on customer preference. The rather odd-looking tender trucks with their closely-spaced wheels are also characteristic of Brooks construction from that period. Brooks built a bunch of those14x18 moguls and they seem to pop up all over the nation.

Brooks can be maddeningly annoying to find good information for. It's not as easily available as stuff like Porter or Baldwin. I've been able to find detail specifications and diagrams for the 12x16 and 14x18 Brooks 4-4-0's but not for the 12x18 (which is the size I want due to a local railroad running the type).