Tim
There's a photo of 202 still in black & grey, taken in November 1968, in
Mike Spoor's Volume 3. It doesn't prove it wasn't painted pre-1970 but
..............
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Wells" <twells@surfmk.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:38 AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] GP-7's in Black
> Paul:
>
>
>
> All of the GP-7s and GP-9s were delivered in the black & grey scheme as
> well
> as all of the CB&Q SD-7s and SD-9s (the later batch of C&S SD-9s were
> delivered in red & grey).
>
>
>
> The BRHS Zephyr Issue 2-95 lists unit-by-unit approximate time frames when
> units were painted into the red & grey schemes. Out of the 68 GP-7s, at
> least 11 (203, 224, 227, 235, 240, 246, 250, 258, 260, 261, 262) were
> still
> black & grey by the BN merger, and there are four others suspected to have
> been black & grey - 202, 230, 239, and 254. Has any one come up with
> photos
> of these units at merger time that shows their paint scheme? By the way,
> several GP-7s were repainted red & grey shortly before the merger, so
> photos
> of units in black & grey as late as 1969 do not mean they were not
> repainted.
>
>
>
> Tim Wells
>
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