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Re: [BRHSlist] Yard Switcher/Doodlebug Paint Scheme Development

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Yard Switcher/Doodlebug Paint Scheme Development
From: Mike Spoor <CBQRR@j...>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 09:08:27 -0600
Cc: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Here is some specific feedback. In the next all-color book (Volume 4)
which will be out in April 2002, there is a shot of SW #9132 in Chicago
in black and gray in AUGUST 1941. This is the earliest date I have seen
where one of the locomotives that was delivered in black had been
repainted black and gray. 

Mike Spoor


On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:33:43 -0600 Bill Hirt <whirt@a...>
writes:
>jonathanharris@e... wrote:
>> 
>> Ed and others,
>> 
>> No doubt you're right that the hood unit paint scheme must have 
>been
>> derived from the earlier switcher scheme. I'm sorry if my question 
>was
>> unclear. I was wondering when and how the "blackbird" switcher 
>scheme
>> itself came into being (you're not saying it's wrong to refer to the 
>yard
>> switchers as "blackbirds" too, are you?).
>> 
>
>Jonathan,
>
>There are several pictures of the NW and SW switchers painted stright
>black with a railroad roman Bulington spelled out along the long 
>hood.
>Somehow it sticks in my mind that Rail Model Journal had a picture of
>one when they had a series about the SW-1 when Walthers released 
>their
>model of it. If I recall from the pictures correctly, the change to 
>the
>"blackbird" scheme occured in 1940 or 1941, just prior to World War 
>II. 
>
>Bill
>
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