Bill
There's a photo on the Castle Graphics site at
http://transport.castlegraphics.com/index.php?cat=6 on the Diesels / FW&D page.
If
that doesn't answer your question, let me know as I have a photo in a FW&D
book, but the e-mail is playing up tonight with
attachments.
Rupert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Stack" <wgstack276@gmail.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Photos, paint schemes
> Rupert,
>
> One other thought, did Neil Richey happen to describe the cab face to the
> unit, i.e. was the red and gray carried around to the cab front or did it
> have hash marks similar to the Green and White BN units?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> The following is an explanation by Hol Wagner in answer to a similar
>> question
>>
>> "The story comes directly from the person who had the 605 painted Chinese
>> red: Neil Richey, the roundhouse foreman at Childress in
>> November 1967 (and roundhouse foreman in Denver when he told me the story),
>> had the unit painted that way when it was overhauled
>> because FW&D switchers had been equipped with MU for use in pairs on
>> branchlines, especially out of Wichita Falls. As such, the FW&D
>> considered them to be road units, and road units were painted Chinese red.
>> When the powers that be in Lincoln and Chicago discovered
>> the unit was red, a directive was issued that no more switchers were to be
>> painted red, but the frugal Burlington didn't spend the
>> money to repaint a newly painted unit, and 605 wore its Chinese red until
>> it was repainted Cascade green."
>>
>> Rupert
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "William" <wgstack276@gmail.com <wgstack276%40gmail.com>>
>> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ%40yahoogroups.com>>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:20 PM
>> Subject: [CBQ] Photos, paint schemes
>>
>> > First off, I want to thank those that responded to my first post re. the
>> TR2s. All the information was very helpful.
>> >
>> > I am guessing that we have photos available for viewing, but I am not
>> able to view any. Is there a trick to it? Do I need special
>> > software? I look at a lot of pictures on other sites, but can't seem to
>> make pictures materialize in Groups.
>> >
>> > That said, somewhere I thought I saw a reference to a switcher, maybe an
>> NW2, that was painted Chinese Red, and that a photo was
>> > available.
>> >
>> > I am assuming that the disappearance of the yellow and red stripes, and
>> the red trim was during a short period just before
>> > everything went green. Am I right?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Bill
>>
>>
>>
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