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RE: (erielack) What is wrong with this picture?
>
> > > First off, that photo is so small, how can you really tell?
> > >
> > > And attached is an example of another wreck repair - this one is
> > > missing the "wing" to the left of the nose door. A similar
> > "effect" as
> > > the other photo, no?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Look at all the yellow paint on top of the nose, along the
> > top of the side, the width of the stripe under the radiator
> > band, and along the sill. Now, go look at the other photo.
> > Virtually none of that stuff is there, as it was not on the
> > as-delivered paint scheme for FTs.
>
> So then, we have a mystery. The slide is (a) supposedly taken in 1956, and
> (b) features the top of the as-delivered scheme (with the thin yellow band
> under the windshield, and the lower part of a post-1946 scheme (when the
> "original scheme" FTs got their full yellow bib treatment.
>
> My guess? A Photoshop job, or some wiseacre in the paint shops having some
> fun. Since this is supposed to be 1956, ten years after the "full bib"
> standardization, I can't imagine this is one that "got away" and was later
> partially "bibbed."
>
> - Paul
TEN years, right? There is your answer. It's not a 1956 photo, it's a 1946 photo. The date is
wrong.
In '56, "some wiseacre" would, I think, have lost his job. That would take a crew to pull off.
(Yeah, I'm aware of the story about the Lackawanna streamlined Pacific's three-color paint job being
an "inside job" by a roundhouse crew, but I barely believe that, too.) Larry DeYoung writes me that
there are two shots of this locomotive, not just one (so, Photoshop? I don't think so) and that
they were shown at a Parsippany meeting a few years ago. They are Al Chione-owned pictures.
I think it's a transitional paint job, testing out the new design without a full-blown application.
They're seeing if it is more visible than the straight black version. All they had to do was add
the "bibs" above and below the diamond-plus-wings which was already on there.
SGL
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