Re: [CBQ] Burro Model 30 Crane Color

["james miller via groups.io" <jimbro67=gmail.com@groups.io>]

If you can find a photo of any unit at the time you model. That's your answer.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025, 4:14 PM HOL WAGNER via groups.io <holpennywagner=msn.com@groups.io> wrote:

Rich:

Best I can do are these two shots of C&S Burro cranes, one in 1957, the other in 1962, both in orange, as were all the Q Burro cranes I ever saw.  As to whether one would have been painted orange in 1950, I have no idea, and I don't know when any of the Burro cranes were built, so I don't know what color they wore when delivered, though I'm sure it was orange after 1949.  But if one was orange in 1950 it would obviously be a recent purchase or repaint, still in fresh paint.

Hol

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Subject: [CBQ] Burro Model 30 Crane Color

 

I'm planning on painting an Overland Burro Model 30 Crane for loading and blocking on an FM-11 flatcar as it would appear in December 1950.  I know that the Q started painting company service equipment MOW Orange in 1949, but I have no idea if this crane would have been painted that color, and, if so, if this would have happened this quickly.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rich G

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