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RE: (erielack) EL Trainmasters

Bruce Alcock asks:

> I am looking through pictures of the EL Trainmasters and see 
> them in two 
> color schemes - the original post merger black, and the 
> maroon and grey 
> scheme.  It was typical of engines painted in the later 
> scheme to have a 
> black roof.  However, some of the trainmasters seem to have a 
> grey roof.  Is 
> that because the black paint wore off, they were never 
> painted black, or 
> some were and some were not painted black?

None of the EL GMY-painted Train Masters had a black roof - they were all
gray (though the roofs got dirty fairly quickly.


> Were all of the 
> trainmasters 
> repainted in the black scheme first, or were some repainted 
> in black and 
> some repainted in marron/grey?

Here's a handy list:

Units that were repainted black first: 1850-1856, 1858-1860   (only 1857 and
1861 didn't get black paint)
Units that were repainted from black to GMY: 1850, 1853-1855

> I also noted that there are 
> other various in 
> the maroon/grey scheme - some have the maroon numbers on the 
> end of the 
> locomotives, and others don't have the numbers.

Yep, there were a lot of paint variations for the GMY units:

1850: "wide" stripe, Gothic roadname and roadnumber in yellow
1853: "narrow" stripe, Gothic roadname and condensed Gothic roadnumber in
yellow, condensed Gothic roadnumber in maroon on end of long hood
1854: "wide" stripe, Roman maroon roadname below walkway deck, condensed
Gothic roadnumber in yellow
1855: "narrow" stripe, Gothic roadname and roadnumber in yellow, Gothic
roadnumber in maroon on end of long hood
1857: initial scheme - "narrow" stripe, Gothic maroon roadname below walkway
deck, condensed Gothic roadnumber in yellow
         second scheme: - "narrow" stripe, yellow Gothic roadname in band,
yellow condensed Gothic roadnumber
1861: "wide" stripe, yellow Gothic roadname and roadnumbers

"Wide" and "narrow" stripe - this is the "height" of the stripe running down
the side of the hood. "Wide" stripes started halfway up the cab windows, and
went down to a point about 3" below the walkway deck. "Narrow" stripes
started just below the cab windows, and went down to a point 3" below the
walkway deck.

As an aside, there was at least one variant for the black/yellow scheme:
1860 had its entire long hood end painted yellow (no "bib")

Hope this helps!

	- Paul

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