I was looking through Diesel Era's "GP20 and SD24" book and found photos of two
GP20's with the wide sill stipes. The units are both BN sub-lettered but still
in Chinese Red. They are:
BN 2041, nee CB&Q 905
BN 2061, nee CB&Q 925
Interestingly the white stripe paint was applied over the handrail stanchions
where they bolt to the side frame. It appears that on the original paint scheme
the handrails were either applied after the white sill stripe was painted or
the handrail stanchions were masked because the portion of the stanchions on
the original paint that overlap the white stripe are in black (the entire
stancion was black). Also, the stanchions just in front of the cab and behind
the cab that attach to the red body are painted red where the attache to the
body, and the same goes for the handrail itself.
To put it another way, on the original Chinese Red scheme it would appear that
the locomotive was painted, then the stanchions and handrails were painted
painted black, and then attached to the locomotive.
On the later wide sill stripe scheme, it would appear the handrails were
painted black while on the unit, then they were masked just to wherever they
overlapped/bolted onto the frame or carbody, then the red or white pain was
applied to the locomotive which included painting the handrail or stanchions
where they bolted to the body. Hence certain portions of the handrails and
stanchions are either red or white.
Also of note is that in the original screen the hand grab across the front of
the endplate which a creman riding the running boards would grab hold of and
the coupler cut levers are black to match the rest of the handrails. On the
later wide sill strip version the hand grab and coupler cut levers are painted
red.
Does anyone have shots of 905 or 925 that show them pre-merger in the wide sill
stripe scheme?
P.S. to Bryan Howell (if you monitor this group): The BRHS website "CB&Q to BN
Diesel" list should be updated to show 905 and 925 as having the CR&G* paint
scheme at merger time.
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
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