TOC (ca. 1900) locomotive colors

Posted by Todd Hackett on
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I've been catching up on scanning photos, and thought I'd share this one of C&S #71 in Pitkin. Looking at the shades, it appears that the cab, tender, and dome rings are very dark while the dome tops and bottoms, boiler jacket, drivers, pilot, and cab doors and windows are a lighter color. The headlight seems to be somewhere in between. Jeff Ramsey's post in the What's on your workbench thread mentions olive green on #9's dome tops and boiler jacket, which is believable for the lighter shade on #71 in this photo. The boiler jacket doesn't have the sheen associated with planished or russian iron, although the dome rings may be. The lettering is also interesting in that it's too dark to be white and probably too dark for silver, so I assume it's gold leaf or gold paint, except for the headlight number boards where the numbers appear to be white - probably milk glass.