The "white" is aluminum. Photos show the O-4s had graphite smokeboxes when
on the FW&D in 1956. When they came up to Denver to the C&S in 1957, all
were painted aluminum except the 805 (5506), which was assigned as the night
switcher in Cheyenne, where engines resumed or retained the graphite color.
Thus, if your 0-4 is lettered CB&Q or is C&S 805, it should be graphite
gray.
Bob Yarger, Editor
Railway Preservation News (free website)
www.rypn.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "captmix" <tamix@earthlink.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:34 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Smoke box color (and fire box too)
This is a question I have asked before.what is that "color" on the
smoke box and fire box. In fact I have just painted a P48 scale USRA
O-4 Class engine. I "fiddled" with some mixtures to try and duplicate
what that color was. In all those pictures by Corbin, Perry, and
others, the Burlington smoke boxes sure looked a shade of "white" even
back in the 20's. Even some color shots like in Bulletin #35 show a
white shade.
I do have a color VCR tape of C&S steamers and in that are two
engines, one C&S and one CB&Q, side by side, and the Burlington engine
is a definite gray while the C&S is white. This was in the late 50's.
But could all those B&W photos from years gone by be wrong? Do I have
to repaint that O-4?
Tom Mix
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Yarger" <ryarger@r...> wrote:
> The proper Q color was a mix of graphite and oil, which came out as
a fairly
> dark gray. The silver smokeboxes and fireboxes came with the
fantrip era,
> starting with the C&S in Denver in 1957. If the 4978 had a silver
smokebox
> (can't remember), it would have gotten it in Denver when it came in
the fall
> of 1958, to fill in for some diesels that were destroyed in head on
> collisions. Some sanding on the smokebox should uncover the silver
if it is
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