Mike
What ever happened to your volume you were going to do which covered Denver.
Are you still interested in my Denver Union Terminal slides of 1969?
sjl
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Spoor
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Cc: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Yard Switcher/Doodlebug Paint Scheme Development
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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