[CBQ] Paint Question

["cbqrr47" <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

I'm just the right age. I'm old enouth to remember steam in regular service and 
young enouth not to be an old man in his dotage! There is no "right" color for 
Q steam engine roofs, fireboxes and smokeboxes. The graphite and linseed oil 
and the red lead and linseed oil were locally mixed in the roundhouse. This 
unlike the "locomotive black" enamel which was a commerical paint that came in 
gallon cans and 55 gallon drums (it took 55 gallons to paint an M-4). Depending 
on the skill of the painter a different colar could occur at the begining of 
the job. With time, weather and dirty enviroment, the colors changed. I saw 
smoke boxes and fire boxes from a light gray (almost white) to very dark gray 
(almost black). Likewise cab roofs could be anything from almost pink to tuscan.
Btw, the painters belonged to the carmen's craft. Some of them could be on the 
derrick crew. At Centralia, at one time the derrick engineer and the cook were 
both painters.
So go ahead and experiment. Have fun you can't go wrong.
John Mitchell



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