Corbin's book on Q steam doesn't shed any light on this and I can't tell by
looking at photos if the numbers/letters are white, aluminum or dulux so go
with what you think is best and wait for some rivit counter to correct you.
If you find and answer, I would appreciate it. I model 1900 so
everything is white.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:45 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Early CB&Q engine lettering
> 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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