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Skip Luke

March 07, 2007 01:23PM

My first railroad, Illinois Central, got who-knows-how-many hundreds of gallons of war-surplus paint after WWII for practically nothing. The frame depots all ended up in battleship grey. The relay racks and much other communications hardware I worked with all ended up olive drab right up to computerization in the 60's. I can imagine other reailroads took advantage of the cheap surplus paint.
We painted GLR consolidation #40's boiler in a dark green that was almost black, as that is what Baldwin supposedly used to paint their engines coming out of the erecting shop.
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Re: Green boiler debate PIC	Dick Bell	March 07, 2007 09:25AM
Re: Green boiler debate PIC	Dick Bell	March 07, 2007 11:58AM
Excellent	William Reed	March 07, 2007 02:30PM
Re: Green boiler debate	William Reed	March 08, 2007 08:02AM
Re: Green boiler debate LINK	Matt Hutson	March 08, 2007 08:27AM
Re: Green boiler debate	William Reed	March 08, 2007 08:40AM
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Re: Green boiler debate PIC	Jerry Halbert	March 09, 2007 06:51AM
I don't care what ya'll say...	Tim	March 07, 2007 10:53AM
Brown Crap	Rich Muth	March 07, 2007 11:10AM
Re: Brown Crap - goes well w/ red coaches ... NM	Russo Loco	March 08, 2007 01:31AM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	chris ahrens	March 07, 2007 12:10PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	Skip Luke	March 07, 2007 01:23PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	Gordon Chappell	March 07, 2007 01:49PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	Jerry Day	March 07, 2007 03:12PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	Gordon Chappell	March 07, 2007 03:35PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	Jerry Day	March 07, 2007 03:59PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	Robin Warren	March 07, 2007 05:35PM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say...	William Reed	March 08, 2007 07:54AM
Re: I don't care what ya'll say.../Green Boilers	Hans R. Banziger	March 08, 2007 11:11AM

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