Re: C&S Photos on eBay: High Bridge Passenger Photo.

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Photos-on-eBay-tp8859p11555.html

Wow, what a beautiful scan of a beautiful image, Todd!

I kinda wish that I hadn't impulsively purchased the print on eBay now.

As I understand it, this is likely a WH Jackson photograph. Mellen was merely the publisher of the cabinet cards, for sale to the Denver tourist trade, right? I wonder if Jackson received a royalty for each print sold.
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As an aside, the current conventional wisdom has it that the standard post-1885 UP reporting marks and numerals for locomotives were painted in "deluxe gold", a dark yellow.  The numerals on CC 108 appear bright white to me. The gold leaf lettering of the passenger cars look significantly darker.

Although CC and DSP&P re-lettering of freight cars to the 1885 convention, with new numbers, took several years, it is likely that once the new numbering system was adopted, locomotive re-numbering was of the most urgency (for dispatching purposes).

Is it possible that the Denver based narrow gauges used the paint on hand (white) in 1885, with repainting to the UP standard colors a few years later?  Did the re-numbering precede the adoption of "deluxe gold" as the standard for locomotives? Anyone know for sure?