Keith,
To add to Charlie's comments, as built, the E% definitely were all
stainless steel except for paint and emblems. I have a photo that my dad shot
on June17, 1940 when the units were brand new. It shows an A-B consist. At
that time, the pilot appears to be stainless steel. The side skirts really
aren't visible. As built, the E%s had unique truck skirts that covered the
upper portion of each truck and hid any sign of a carbody skirt. In Dad's
photo, the truck skirt is missing over the rear truck of the B unit. The train
the units are pulling was a Kiwanis special operating between Chicago and the
Twin Cities for a Kiwanis convention. At the time, it was supposedly the first
complete train of non articulated streamlined equipment to operate on the
Q.
Here is a link to the photo
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
Fri
Aug 31, 2012 8:35 am (PDT) . Posted by:
Keith-
The
units came from the factory with only the striping and lettering
in
paint. Everything else was Stainless Steel. There was som e variation
in
the level of polish but I would just go ahead and paint everything in
Alclad
Stainless unless you want to research all the photos available and
try to
develop an area by area diagram of varying Stainless Steel
finishes.
The upcoming Kato unit will first be offered in the
As-Delivered scheme.
Black stripes. The unit at IRM has a replacement
pilot (there were three
different styles of Pilots on the E5s as
delivered) and the IRM version is
one style of the replacement regular
steel pilots which were painted
silver(some had what look like E7 pilots
applied which do not follow the
contours of the originals).
Check photos for the unit
you are doing..you may want to match the "phase"
of the unit as well. the
Valerio shell, being based on the LifeLike E6, is
closest to a Phase II
(the Kato will be a PhaseI which is like an E3 with
the parallel to the
rails roof radiators vs . the perpendicular style of
the
E6).
Charlie Vlk
