- 1. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1764 (score: 1)
- Author: William Barber <clipperw@EarthLink.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 23:41:15 -0500
- Marshall, I think this has been discussed before on the list, but how have your determined that the Q started painting cab roofs red in 1947? My impression was that it started earlier, possibly with
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- 2. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1764 (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 00:15:33 -0600
- That's a tough one, Bill . . . I know I had a printed source at the time I put that date in the Microscale decal instruction, but I no longer have my reference library. It runs in my mind it was from
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- 3. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1764 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:43:10 -0700 (PDT)
- We have been all through this before. The red roofs were not a "paint scheme". They were "red leaded" to prevent and arrest corrosion as needed. The practice began circa 1920(on steel cabs) and remem
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