----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed DeRouin" <PIXELS@A...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] NE12 paint
> >>> 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.
>
Oooops! Ed's right, of course!
Marshall
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