A couple more examples: In Al Holck's Burlington Route Color
Pictorial, Volume 1, page 15, there's a picture of the Willard, CO
wooden water tank in 1956. It appears to be solid red (also in Jones &
Collman's book on Sterling, CO, p. 240).
A somewhat different story with the Fort Worth tank as shown in Steve
Goen's Fort Worth & Denver Color Pictorial, page 27. The FW tank
itself is wood and painted red (very dirty and weathered). The base is
metal and appears to be another, darker color. It's a little hard to
tell the precise color of its very grimy dirty weathered surface in
old color photos shot under less-than-perfect conditions. It could be
black, but it could be the same dark green trim color you see on the
red roundhouse immediately behind it. In any case, there appears to be
precedent for 2-tone as well as solid-color water tanks on the Q.
-Jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, William Barber <clipperw@...> wrote:
>
> Jonathan,
>
> My recollection of the water tower at Downers Grove from more than 50
> years ago was that the tower was painted all oxide red; no green
> trim. The same was true of the turntable and the coal dock at Eola.
> Somewhere, I have a color photo of the Eola coal dock. There was an
> old coach, set on the ground, at Downers Grove for many years that
> was used for crews in the area. I don't believe it had green trim
> either. Signal bridges, in those days, were also all oxide red. I
> think that the green trim was reserved for public structures such as
> depots and adjacent buildings.
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:27 PM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > Coal Chute and Water Tower Colors
> > Posted by: "bigbearoak" jonathanharris@... bigbearoak
> > Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:48 am (PDT)
> >
> > The photo Tim posted shows a freshly-painted structure. I assume this
> > was a mineral red or red oxide color.
> >
> > My question: was this the same "red" as CB&Q depots were painted? And
> > was it the same color that wooden water towers (and/or the later steel
> > CB&I ones) were painted?
> >
> > Second question: with regard to the Q's wooden water towers, was it
> > ever the practice to paint them in a Burlington red/green scheme
> > (probably red tank and green base/trestle-work), or were they painted
> > solid red?
> >
> > Thanks for any information.
> > Jonathan
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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