Re: K-36 when new
| October 19, 2007 10:56AM |
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Steve G. Wrote:
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> Thanks, Herb.
>
> I have spent some time on that site. It eats up
> alot of time trying to navigate down to the
> specific subject, especially if the computer loads
> slowly.
>
> Do you have any tips on what to enter in the
> search catagory to speed things along..?
Just D&RGW ### usually gets there pretty quick.
And the question of green boilers has been beat to death and so, at the risk of flogging, I will hammer on it a little more.
I see absolutely no reason to believe that the Denver and Rio Grande Western had two different lettering schemes for standard and narrow gauge power. Suffice it to say, at least on November 1, 1937, if the jackets were specified as painted green then I suspect all were painted green. With the commonly used black and white photographic material of the time it is very difficult to distinguish between the dark olive green boiler jacket and the surrounding black paint once you get a little soot on things and there aren't enough color photos from 1937 to prove to me otherwise.
The green being used at the D&S is not dark olive green, it is way too light. The dark color specified would quickly turn to soot gray just like the shiny black paint of today.
All right boyos, bring it on.
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> Thanks, Herb.
>
> I have spent some time on that site. It eats up
> alot of time trying to navigate down to the
> specific subject, especially if the computer loads
> slowly.
>
> Do you have any tips on what to enter in the
> search catagory to speed things along..?
Just D&RGW ### usually gets there pretty quick.
And the question of green boilers has been beat to death and so, at the risk of flogging, I will hammer on it a little more.
I see absolutely no reason to believe that the Denver and Rio Grande Western had two different lettering schemes for standard and narrow gauge power. Suffice it to say, at least on November 1, 1937, if the jackets were specified as painted green then I suspect all were painted green. With the commonly used black and white photographic material of the time it is very difficult to distinguish between the dark olive green boiler jacket and the surrounding black paint once you get a little soot on things and there aren't enough color photos from 1937 to prove to me otherwise.
The green being used at the D&S is not dark olive green, it is way too light. The dark color specified would quickly turn to soot gray just like the shiny black paint of today.
All right boyos, bring it on.
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