John --
I wouldn't pre-judge Broadway's final paint scheme by that diagram. A much
better indication is the photo of their actual production model:
http://www.broadway-limited.com/products/USRA.htm
The cab roof in that picture looks much more like a mineral orange or red
-- actually quite close to Jim Ehrenberger's shot of 5506 on page 29 of
Alfred Holck's Burlington Route Color Pictorial Vol. 1. And if you look
through the steam gallery in that volume, you'll see all sorts of shades,
ranging into a dull blackish-purple or even black. I think it's just a
matter of how long it had been since they'd repainted it and how much soot
had accumulated since the last washing. You can probably duplicate almost
any shade you want with judicious oversprays of grimy black or equivalent
-- a technique also remarkably close to how it happened in nature.
Jonathan
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, railbass@a... wrote:
> I too have been looking at the Broadway Limited website and noticed the
> diagram of the CB&Q Heavy 2-8-2. The item that struck me was that the cab
> roof and the tender deck are painted a bright red. I recall from my limited
> exposure to Q steam (fantrips) and what color photos in books that I
>have, the
> cab roof was painted a dark boxcar red type of color, not something that
>stood
> out like a bright red. For those more familiar with Q steam, would Q freight
> engines have such a color on them?
> - John Manion
> Denver, CO
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