I picked up that big of EPB paint lore from the GN list some time back. And I
agree the cars shown sure don't look to be nearly-new. I'd consider 2
possibilities: Q did not get all E's transformed from black to red nose stripes
by "68 or one had nose paint work done & for whatever reason they reverted back
to black (you see occasxional slides of Q frt cars that got unusual repair
painting on occasion inc. wrong fonts)
Gerald
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From: rgortowski@aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:19:14 -0400
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
Gerald - are you sure? I thought it was more than one. One set also got painted
into the new Cascade Green scheme toward the very end.
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From: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:16 pm
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
nly 1 EPB trainset was painted Big Sky Blue; i.e. most remained in the classic
cheme.
erald
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rom: rgortowski@aol.com
ate: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:52:58 -0400
ubject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
pon further review, you can see 4 Great Northern cars. Starting May 11th 1967
he GN started painted passenger cars in the "Big Sky Blue" paint scheme. This
id take a long time and I don't think all of the Empire Builder scheme cars got
epainted. It's certainly possible those four cars (in a row) were still in the
mpire Builder paint scheme on 6/1/68, but it does make one wonder. They
ventually started painting some of these cars in the Cascade Green with the
hite, "Hockey Stick" stripe. (at least one consist of the five)
Rich G.
-----Original Message-----
rom: rgortowski@aol.com
o: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
ent: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:37 pm
ubject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
Steve has a point. Those domes were brand new in 1955. The paint looks pretty
ashed-out for 1958 - 60.
Rich G.
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rom: Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>
o: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
ent: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 3:27 pm
ubject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
The interesting thing about this picture and the one following is the ratty
ondition of the Empire Builder's paint job, particularly on the lead dome. It
oes 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>
ubject: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968?
o: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
ate: 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:
>
>
> Perhaps the year on the photo was wrong? Maybe it was 1958?? Just my
hought...
> --- 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
howing E8 Unit 9947 still having black nose stripes. I thought all CB&Q
assenger locomotives had red nose stripes by that year.
> > >
> > > http://www.godfatherrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=132
> > >
> > >> >
> >
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