Sorry, I did not read your post carefully. Only photos 1957 and later (C&S)
would be aluminum. Older photos that appear white are probably just the
result of films at the time, or perhaps yellow camera filters, which some
photographers used to bring out clouds, etc., in b&w photos. What brand is
your P48 0-4? I didn't know that any were made, though there were some
plain O scale USRA 2-8-2 heavies imported.
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
Yahoo! Groups Links
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
<font face=arial size=-1><a
href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hktmlvh/M=362343.6886682.7839641.1493532/D=groups/S=1706043004:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123371216/A=2894350/R=0/SIG=10tj5mr8v/*http://www.globalgiving.com";>Make
a difference. Find and fund world-changing projects at GlobalGiving</a>.</font>
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
|