Thank you very much for this information, Pat.
I'm not sure it necessarily follows that all these changes were system-wide,
although you may well be right. The 1928 scheme I'd agree almost certainly was
system-wide,* but by then the three roads were for practical purposes one
system (and had been since 1908). But as you point out, the C&S-FW&DC (and
those two were, in effect, one road) had adopted the aluminum leaf/paint scheme
in 1906, two years before the CB&Q purchased them. So if the parent CB&Q was
using aluminum lettering at the time they absorbed The Colorado Road and The
Denver, it would have been by coincidence, since (I'm guessing) the Q probably
established its own scheme in 1904, at the time of the big re-numbering and
re-classification.
I pore over old Otto Perry b&w photos from the 1920s, and it might as well be
anyone's guess: the lettering all looks white!
Again, thanks for your reply.
Jonathan
*Ed Fulcomer's C&S (southern division) color pictorial has a couple late photos
showing 2-8-0s 602 and 605 with either white or aluminum numbers/letters.
However, these engines were in joint-line service in switcher service in Denver
, lettered for C&S/AT&SF.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "homanfamily" <homanfamily@...> wrote:
>
> Jonathan,
> According to Hol Wagner's book "The Colorado Road" C&S, which had had
> been part of the Q since 1908, from 1902 to May 06, the lettering was white.
> From May 06 to Sep 28, passenger was Aluminum Leaf and freight was Aluminum
> paint. Its Gold leaf and Yellow paint after that.
> FW&D was white before May 06, then Aluminum to Sep 28 then gold/yellow.
> I think it is a safe bet that this was a system wide paint scheme.
> Pat Homan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jonathanharris@...>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:44 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Early CB&Q engine lettering
>
>
> > Can anyone tell me what color letters and numbers CB&Q engines/tenders had
> > before c1928, when the modern, 'gold' came into use. Were the earlier
> > letters and numbers white? or a leaf, like the aluminum leaf on
> > contemporaneous C&S engines? or even a gold scheme, as they had later.
> > I've never run across this information, and of course old black & white
> > photos are of little or no help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
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