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Re: [CBQ] Re: Cab Roof Color of CB&Q G-5 & G-5a 0-6-0 Switchers?

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Cab Roof Color of CB&Q G-5 & G-5a 0-6-0 Switchers?
From: Jan Kohl <kohlj@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:55:14 -0500
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> Bill -
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> The only color photos of Q steam switchers I know are in Holck Vol 1 and 
> Spoor, V. 1 (only 
> F-1s only), and these are unhelpful, as I imagine you know. You can barely 
> see the cab 
> roofs; some do appear to be different colors from the cab sides & boiler, but 
> does that 
> indicate weathered red paint? or just ash? soot? rust? on a black cab roof? 
>
> Others may have clearer photos or some definitive information. But you have 
> to ask 
> youself, why _wouldn't_ they paint their G-5 cab roofs red? "Red lead" wasn't 
> applied for 
> aesthetic reasons, after all, but to protect the roof from corrosion 
> (sulfuric acid? from soot 
> and steam deposits) - as much of an issue for a yard as a mainline engine.
>
> That seems to be the guess P2K made for their HO versions of both the G-5 and 
> the F-1, 
> anyway. The color they chose looks a lot like what CIL used for their M-2a 
> brass imports a 
> few years back, and that color strikes me as awfully close to Floquil's zinc 
> chromate 
> primer. This of course represents a brand new, freshly shopped engine. After 
> awhile, it 
> would darken by degrees to maroon, then effectively to dull black. For 
> modeling purposes, 
> cab roof color probably correlates strongly with the model's overall level of 
> weathering. 
> Fortunately, it's easy to darken a newer, more orange cab roof in very 
> prototypical fashion 
> by overspraying with grimy black or another dark weathering mixture.
>
> Good luck,
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "cbq_bill" <cbq_bill@...> wrote:
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>> There have been discussions in the past that most of the cab roofs of 
>> Q's staem locomotives were painted red towrd the end of steam, 1940s-
>> 1950s.  Does anyone know if the USRA 0-6-0 G-5 and G-5a switchers also 
>> recieved the red cab roofs?  Are there any color photos of these  in 
>> books or on the net?  
>>
>> For any factory decorated HO or N scale CB&Q 0-6-0 models, what color 
>> are the cab roofs?   
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Bill H
>>
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