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Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2687

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2687
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:49:15 -0600
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Tom,

As I said in my note, the gray smokeboxes may have been used earlier, 
and, I find in fact, they were. In looking at Perry photos from the 
Denver Public Library collection and in Corbin's book, I find some, but 
not all locomotives with gray smokeboxes much earlier. The oldest one 
that I can find appears in Corbin's book on page 34 of A-6 4-4-0 #550, 
taken at Council Bluffs, IA on Sept 6, 1897. It clearly has a gray 
smokebox in those two photos. There are several photos of locomotives 
in 1900 with gray smokeboxes. I assume that graphite was used at that 
time. They probably had problems with regular paint, available in those 
days, burning off the hot surfaces of the unlagged portions of the 
boiler assembly. The fireboxes aren't that clear as to color and the 
cab roof color is impossible to determine in the b&w photos. There are 
photos taken after 1900 which show locomotives that appear to have 
black smokeboxes, particularly as delivered from the builders.

Bill Barber

On Thursday, March 2, 2006, at 01:46  PM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>    Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:55:14 -0600
>    From: "TEB2771" <teb2771@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Digest Number 2685
>
> Photos in the Roy Campbell photo collection show CB&Q locomotives with 
> gray smoke boxes back into the late 1920's. Can't tell color of the 
> cab roofs. Tom Burg



 
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