Nice, Jerry,
Did you notice the gold lettering on the number plate?
It was original. When I relettered the locomoive, I stripped the old paint on the number plate and the number was in the earlier gold paiste scheme. I found remnants of the gold paint scheme on the cab, also. There was so much varnish over the number plate that I couldn't get the aluminum paint to stick, so I just left it. Better that than to remove the paint and history that goes along with it.... Unlike some Historical Societies that I know.
Rick Steele