Re: [CBQ] CB&Q SW1000

["Rodney & Marilyn Bennett" <tx_ok_rr@hughes.net>]

The blackbird scheme remained  until the BN merger for switchers. The only 
switcher ever painted in red was FW&D 605 an NW-2. painted at the Childress, TX 
Shops.

The Q did have some simplified blackbird switchers.

Rodney Bennett
Olney, TX
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Manion 
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:06 AM
  Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q SW1000


    I was in Caboose Hobbies yesterday and looked over their new selections.
  Among them was a new Athearn model, a CB&Q SW1000 painted in the blackbird
  scheme. Since the SW1000 was not introduced until 1966, and I understand
  that the Chinese Red scheme came into existence in 1958, would this be an
  inaccurate paint scheme for this model? I can't recall seeing an SW1000
  here in Denver on the Q, although the D&RGW had several of them in the late
  1960s, but wouldn't it be painted Chinese Red? How late was the blackbird
  scheme used on Q diesels? I do recall seeing GP20s and GP30s in Chinese
  Red, but the blackbird scheme I recall and have photos of were all NW2s,
  SW1200s, GP7/9s, and SD7/9s.
  - John Manion
  Denver, CO

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