Re: 489 in Green 1950

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Thank you, William -
>
> It's interesting how much darker the D&RGW 'Moffat
> Green' enamel appears in old Kodachrome slides vs
> the D&S 'Moffat Green' urethane that Jeff
> Ellingson created from an old sample of the Rio
> Grande paint and applied to the four D&S
> passenger cars and to C&TS #489 more than ten
> years ago.  It's no wonder that so few D&RGW
> 'old hands' remembered when the K-37's had green
> jackets – for a while, at least – when
> then were first shipped out from Burnham in 1928
> and 1930.


Well they must have had at least some memory of it. Why else would they want to run a photographer's special on the narrow gauge and request that the boiler jacket be painted green?
I have some color slides of standard gauge D&RGW engines that indisputably had green boiler jackets, and it's still hard to tell if you're seeing green paint or just dirt and soot. Green boiler jackets really don't show up well even in color photos.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2020 02:19AM by Pkwlsn.