Re: Moffat Green at Mears Junction on 05/21/50 . . .
| February 18, 2021 05:34PM |
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guymonmd Wrote:
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> I don't want to stir up a hornet's nest (well may-
> be I do), but the 489's boiler jacket sure looks
> green to me. It appears to be a nearly identical
> color as the baggage car
It WAS green, Guy -
But not quite as dark as the Pullman Green (?) on the passenger cars. SFAIK, it was genuine D&RGW "Moffat Green" Dark Olive Boiler Jacket Enamel, to be specific – specially applied by the Rio Grande for the Rocky Club excursion of 05/21/50 – which is why a gang of us greengoes promoted an excursion on the C&TS in May of 2010 to celebrate the 60th Anniversary thereof. See the third and fourth photos on [ngdiscussion.net], and the paragraph between.
Per Jeff Ellingson, Curator of the D&S Museum, he had found an old can in the paint shed in Durango labeled "Boiler Jacket Enamel" and had a sample spectrographically analyzed, and reproduced as closely as possible except as a modern urethane rather than a traditional enamel. IIRC, this paint was used to paint several D&S cars in 2008 or 2009, as seen in this well-known August, 2010 photo stolen from John West's album at [chasingtrains.smugmug.com]:
In the Spring of 2010 a bunch of us ne'er-do-wells arranged a charter on the C&TS with engine #489 to commemorate her 1950 excursion to Villa Grove. We used Jeff's paint – and Jeff's painting skills – on #489's jacket (see [ngdiscussion.net]). As noted on the other thread, this modern paint appears a bit brighter than what #489 looked like in 1950. Whether this is due to the nature of Don Hills' slide (OLD Kodachrome), the shinier surface of the modern versus the older paint, or an actual difference in the pigment color is open to debate. For further discussion, see [ngdiscussion.net], and don't miss all the differences in color on [ngdiscussion.net]!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2021 07:47PM by Russo Loco.
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> I don't want to stir up a hornet's nest (well may-
> be I do), but the 489's boiler jacket sure looks
> green to me. It appears to be a nearly identical
> color as the baggage car
It WAS green, Guy -
But not quite as dark as the Pullman Green (?) on the passenger cars. SFAIK, it was genuine D&RGW "Moffat Green" Dark Olive Boiler Jacket Enamel, to be specific – specially applied by the Rio Grande for the Rocky Club excursion of 05/21/50 – which is why a gang of us greengoes promoted an excursion on the C&TS in May of 2010 to celebrate the 60th Anniversary thereof. See the third and fourth photos on [ngdiscussion.net], and the paragraph between.
Per Jeff Ellingson, Curator of the D&S Museum, he had found an old can in the paint shed in Durango labeled "Boiler Jacket Enamel" and had a sample spectrographically analyzed, and reproduced as closely as possible except as a modern urethane rather than a traditional enamel. IIRC, this paint was used to paint several D&S cars in 2008 or 2009, as seen in this well-known August, 2010 photo stolen from John West's album at [chasingtrains.smugmug.com]:
In the Spring of 2010 a bunch of us ne'er-do-wells arranged a charter on the C&TS with engine #489 to commemorate her 1950 excursion to Villa Grove. We used Jeff's paint – and Jeff's painting skills – on #489's jacket (see [ngdiscussion.net]). As noted on the other thread, this modern paint appears a bit brighter than what #489 looked like in 1950. Whether this is due to the nature of Don Hills' slide (OLD Kodachrome), the shinier surface of the modern versus the older paint, or an actual difference in the pigment color is open to debate. For further discussion, see [ngdiscussion.net], and don't miss all the differences in color on [ngdiscussion.net]!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2021 07:47PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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