Only 1 EPB trainset was painted Big Sky Blue; i.e. most remained in the classic
scheme.
Gerald
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: rgortowski@aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:52:58 -0400
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
Upon further review, you can see 4 Great Northern cars. Starting May 11th 1967
the GN started painted passenger cars in the "Big Sky Blue" paint scheme. This
did take a long time and I don't think all of the Empire Builder scheme cars
got repainted. It's certainly possible those four cars (in a row) were still in
the Empire Builder paint scheme on 6/1/68, but it does make one wonder. They
eventually started painting some of these cars in the Cascade Green with the
white, "Hockey Stick" stripe. (at least one consist of the five)
Rich G.
-----Original Message-----
From: rgortowski@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:37 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
Steve has a point. Those domes were brand new in 1955. The paint looks pretty
washed-out for 1958 - 60.
Rich G.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 3:27 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
The interesting thing about this picture and the one following is the ratty
condition of the Empire Builder's paint job, particularly on the lead dome. It
does look like something out of the late 60's rather than the late 50's.
--- On Thu, 9/16/10, therrboomer <therrboomer@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: therrboomer <therrboomer@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 1:15 PM
Based on some of his CRIP photos I'm 99.9% sure "Godfather-
rail's" dates are not always accurate.
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--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "shadow1" <dispatcherman@...> wrote:
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> Perhaps the year on the photo was wrong? Maybe it was 1958?? Just my
> thought...
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, lyle dowell <slyone@> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/14/2010 4:11 PM, Stephen Levine wrote:
> > > The attached link shows a photograph captioned as taken in Chicago in
> > > 1968 showing E8 Unit 9947 still having black nose stripes. I thought all
> > > CB&Q passenger locomotives had red nose stripes by that year.
> > >
> > > http://www.godfatherrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=132
> > >
> > >> >
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