Oh do I remember those. I got the D&RGW units. One headlight. I talked
to Bobbye Hall at the NMRA convention about that. "We have pictures of it
just like that at Denver". I offered to pay for the reproduction and
postage because NO D&RGW F-unit had one headlight. Well, she wouldn't and
it turned out that what they had done is use a photo of the demonstrator in
Denver (it had the same paint patterns and looked like one in a b/w photo
if you wanted it to) as their model. I was "happy" they didn't just screw
up the D&RGW units. There were other errors on them.
At 08:54 AM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
>Does anyone recall the FTs put out by Hallmark about 20 years ago. The
>units were literally gray, about the grey on the chinese red units. Also,
>if I recall correctly, the CNW units had the green and yellow reversed.
>
>BRAD
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlie Vlk
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: ESTAPLE10@aol.com
> Sent: 02/08/2005 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Cicero diesel facility
>
>
> Joe Legner and I also went to Clyde and obtained a small liquid sample of
> paint. Out of the barrel it was much too dark but we didn't figure that
> out until I received a custom painted set of Athearn F7s.... I think the
> Aluminum Oxide paint had to be sprayed at high pressure to achieve the
> light
> gray / dark white color of the F Units.
> Speaking of which, has anybody documented the use of the term "graybacks" ?
> It seems to me that I never heard it before the Bulletin article came
> out..... Are the "grayback", "black bird", and "red bird" recent railfan
> concoctions or were the terms in general use by Q employees during the
> units' service lives?
> Charlie Vlk
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