Dan,
In the view of the E5s on page 12 on Spoor's Vol. 2, the first E5A and the E5B appear to have the same shutter arrangement. The trailing E5A clearly has a different arrangement. If you look on the next page, there is another view with two E5As with an E7A between them. The lead E5A has the same shutters as the first two units on the previous page, but the E7 and the trailing E5A have a different arrangement that looks like the trailing E5A on the previous page. I don't know which was the first generation and which was the second generation. I believe the silver colored more or less flush mounted arrangement is the earlier or original version. The dark colored arrangement that appears to be raised up above the roof line is the later version.
Both photos were taken in later years, so the shutter assemblies may have gotten switched around in the shoppings over the years. I suspect that the RR would not have put an early version of the E5 shutters on an E7, so that makes me think that it is a later version of the shutter arrangement that may have also been applied to the later Phase II E5s. With the E8s, the shutters were moved to the side of the carbody behind the grills on the cold air side of the air flow. BTW, the Pennsy E7 in the top photo on page 13 looks like it has no shutters.
Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO Sat Sep 8, 2012 10:30 am (PDT) . Posted by:Hi,
I thought that brass is more accurate but the Hallmark N-scale brass E5B has
the same radiators as the A unit.
So far the best photo I could find of a E5B top is on page 68 of the FWD
color pictorial book by Steve Allen Goen.
Other ones are a partial view on page 79 and page 106 and indeed it looks
different.
However, in Harrison street view (page 12) of Michael Spoor's book CB&Q in
Color Volume 2 it looks like the covers are the same.
All the best,
Dan
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