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From: "Tim Wells" <twells1983@kellogg.northwestern.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 22:06:13 -0400
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On page 125 of "Fort Worth & Denver Ry - Color Pictorial", Four Ways West
Publication, there is a glimpse of the cab end of this switcher.
Interesting that the railroad number and initials above the windows are
white.

 

Tim Wells

twells1983@kellogg.northwestern.edu

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rupert &
Maureen
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:54 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Photos, paint schemes

Bill

Sorry, none of my other photos show any more of the front of the cab than
the Castle Graphics one. Have you tried Fallen Flags, 
Trainweb, etc.?

Rupert

>> >>
>> >> 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 <mailto:wgstack276%40gmail.com>
<wgstack276%40gmail.com><wgstack276%
>> 40gmail.com>>
>> >> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com>
<CBQ%40yahoogroups.com> <CBQ%40yahoogroups.com
>> >>
>> >> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:20 PM
>> >> Subject: [CBQ] Photos, paint schemes
>> >>
>> >> > 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? - I get the impression the
Scotchlight safety stripes were applied in the early 1960s, but a few units
made it to BN merger with the yellow and red stripes. Tim Wells
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > Bill


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