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Re: [BRHSlist] NE12 paint

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] NE12 paint
From: Ed DeRouin <PIXELS@A...>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:30:41 -0600
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>>> Over the weekend, I was blessed to acquire (at a local antique mall, no
>>> less) a brass Oriental Limited CB&Q NE12 #13560 waycar.
>> 
>> Roger:
>> 
>> From my perspective, the who and why of the red paint is unimportant, I
> know
>> of no NE12 painted in that fashion. I would count my blessing, strip it,
> and
>> paint it in the the classic scheme of aluminum with the black outlined red
>> stripe and large herald.
>> 
> Agreed. The only other (pre-BN Green) authentic scheme for any of the NE-12
> class (to my knowledge) is the "Great Pumpkin" MOW orange with black
> lettering and one-color herald. This was applied to the first 12 NE-12s
> (and all NE-10s) as a "steel caboose scheme" . . . It came to harry C.
> Murphy's attention, and he vetoed it, ordering creation of the aluminum
> "F-clone" scheme.
> 
> But not never nohow Chinese Red.
> 
> Marshall

I am aware of one other paint job, the simplified aluminum one lacking the
stripe.

Ed DeRouin


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