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> Bill -
>
> 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:
>
>> 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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